Biden freezes before Medicare, jobs gaffes minutes into CNN debate with Trump

President Biden froze and then had a verbal blunder, saying he “beat Medicare,” minutes after he kicked off his debate with former President Donald Trump on Thursday and touted the “15,000 new jobs” he created as commander in chief.

The 81-year-old president was discussing his record on the economy when he appeared to lose his train of thought.

“We be able to help make sure that all those things we need to do, childcare, elder care, making sure that we continue to strengthen our health care system, making sure that we’re able to make every single solitary person eligible for what I’ve been able to do with the with the COVID, excuse me, dealing with everything we have to do with …. ” Biden said before freezing for several seconds.

“We finally beat Medicare,” he continued.

“He did beat Medicare. He beat it to death,” Trump, 78, responded.

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