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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden suffered an embarrassing mistake on Election Day while addressing a crowd in Pennsylvania.
The former vice president appeared to mistake his son for his granddaughter on Tuesday, in a mistake that was criticized on social media by the Trump campaign.
‘We have the wrong one’
Biden was introducing his son’s daughter, Beau Biden, who died of brain cancer in 2015, to his supporters in Philadelphia when he called her Beau’s name and incorrectly stated that her late son was elected to the Senate. Beau was elected Delaware Attorney General in 2006 and 2010, but never ran for Senate.
“I want to introduce you to my granddaughters. This is my son Beau Biden, whom many of you helped elect to the Senate in Delaware,” Biden said before immediately correcting himself to say “this is my granddaughter Natalie, Beau’s daughter.”
Biden, who will turn 78 this month, realized he had his arm around his other grandson, Finnegan, and admitted his mistake before stopping Natalie.
With the campaign over and both candidates waiting for the final election results to be declared, the confusion gave President Donald Trump’s campaign one last chance to target Biden on social media, sharing the video clip as evidence of the deterioration of the election. Biden’s mental health condition, which Trump has repeatedly alluded to in the run-up to the election.
“WATCH: Joe Biden confuses his granddaughters,” Trump’s campaign posted on Twitter with a video of the incident. Check out the clip below:
Netizens claim Biden suffers from ‘Alzheimer’s’
The video footage is now circulating widely on social media and has accumulated comments from users who have had family members suffering from senility to associate Biden’s confusion and memory loss as symptoms of “Alzheimer’s.”
“My grandfather has Alzheimer’s and as we watched his mind slide, the names of his grandchildren were very difficult to remember,” wrote one user. “It is a horrible disease and very sad to see. And it is worse that Biden’s family is putting him through this at this point in his life.”
“To neglect as much as Joe is to come to resemble the Alzheimer’s disease that my uncle and my grandmother went through,” commented another. “Soon he will ask several times where everything is in the room, even if it is right in front of him.”
