Biden Jokes He's 'Not Going Nuts' After Repeated Campaign Trail Gaffes

Former Vice President Joe Biden joked to his New Hampshire supporters that he isnt going nuts following a string of campaign trail gaffes, the latest in which he forgot the location of the Dartmouth College building where he delivered a speech on Friday.

I want to be clear, Im not going nuts, the Democratic frontrunner said later that day. Im not sure whether it was the medical school or where the hell I spoke, but it was on the campus.

Biden in NH tonight quipped that he isn't going \"nuts\" because he didnt know exact location of his earlier Dartmouth speech pic.twitter.com/0y7iqiDyHi

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Biden in NH tonight quipped that he isn't going "nuts" because he didnt know exact location of his earlier Dartmouth speech pic.twitter.com/0y7iqiDyHi
Bo Erickson (@BoKnowsNews) August 24, 2019

The lighthearted remarks came just one day before Biden made another slip up in New Hampshire. While speaking with a reporter who asked for his impression of Keene, a city in southwest New Hampshire, he accidentally referred to the state as Vermont.

I love this place, the 2020 hopeful said. Whats not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it? And what a neat town. This is sort of a scenic, beautiful town, the mayors been a good guy, and everybodys been really friendly.

Joe Biden in Keene, New Hampshire: \"Ive been here a number of times...I love this place. Look, whats not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it? pic.twitter.com/YZBP4ybQ3z

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Joe Biden in Keene, New Hampshire: "Ive been here a number of times...I love this place. Look, whats not to like about Vermont in terms of the beauty of it? pic.twitter.com/YZBP4ybQ3z
Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) August 24, 2019

On Tuesday, Biden slipped up again during a speech in Iowa where he said that Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. were assassinated in the 70s . Both were killed in 1968.

Meanwhile, Bidens opponents, including Republican National Committee spokesperson Elizabeth Harrington and Kayleigh McEnany, national press secretary for President Donald Trump s re-election campaign, have seized on the mistakes, tweeting, They cant take him anywhere and that he has completely lost it .

Earlier this month, Biden made additional headlines for stating during a separate Iowa speech that poor kids are just as bright, just as talented, as white kids, quickly adding, wealthy kids, black kids, Asian kids, no I really mean it, but think how we think about it.

In response, Trump, who has himself racked up numerous foot-in-mouth moments or made outright offensive remarks, claimed that Biden is not playing with a full deck , and that he is not somebody you can have as your president.

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Defending Biden, Symone Sanders, his senior adviser, urged the public in a CNN interview to stop focusing on his errors.

If were going to elevate the conversation, we cannot allow this election to devolve in a tit-for-tat over name-calling and gaffes, again something that does not matter, she said . This is not something thats registering with the American people.