Biden Misdates 2018 Parkland Shooting in His Latest Blunder

  • Democrat frontrunner claims he was vice president at the time
  • Deadly attack at school happened after Biden had left office
Joe Biden pauses during the Everytown for Gun Safety Presidential Gun Sense Forum.Photographer: Alex Wroblewski/Bloomberg
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Joe Biden said he was vice president when the deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Florida, took place. Except, it happened in 2018, more than a year after he left office -- the latest gaffe by the Democratic presidential front-runner.

Biden told reporters in Iowa on Saturday that “those kids in Parkland came up to see me when I was vice president.” But when they visited Capitol Hill to talk with members of Congress, lawmakers were “basically cowering, not wanting to see them. They did not want to face it on camera.”