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The 78-year-old American leader stumbled in the middle of the stairs and rushed to board the plane.
Holding his handrail behind his right hand, he tried to get to his feet quickly, but stumbled again and this time leaned on his knee.
Biden stood up while he waited, rubbed the left side of his pants, then went upstairs, turned around, paid tribute, and then boarded the plane.
Air Force One soon took off from the Washington area to the Atlantic, where Biden would meet members of the Asian American community stunned by a series of shooting ranges.
“He is fine. He is doing very well,” said Karin Jean-Pierre, the White House deputy secretary of press, of the journalists’ stumbling block.
Biden, the oldest president in American history, tried to show that he was in good shape during the election campaign.
Last year, he was often shown climbing the stairs to the podium.
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