President Biden, 79, looked around the room in Washington and said: 'Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? She must not be here'
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerJoe Biden made a blunder during a speech when he asked if a deceased congresswoman was in the audience.
The US president made the gaffe at a conference on hunger, nutrition and health after apparently forgetting that Jackie Walorski, the former Republican representative for the state of Indiana, died in a car crash in August. , 79, looked around the room in Washington and said:"Jackie, are you here? Where's Jackie? She must not be here" on Wednesday.field a flurry of questions during the press briefing that followed.
She repeated more than a dozen times that Ms Walorski was"top of mind" for Mr Biden - who is due to meet with the congresswoman's family on Friday to sign a bill renaming a veterans' affairs clinic in Indiana after her."My answer is certainly not going to change," she told journalists.
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