QUOTE OF THE DAY: Joe Biden Is Basically Puerto Rican

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 18: U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the COVID-19 response and the vaccination program in the East Room of the White House on August 18, 2021 in Washington, DC. During his remarks, President Biden announced that he is ordering the United States Department of Health and Human Services to require nursing homes to have vaccinated staff in order for them to receive Medicare and Medicaid funding. The President also announced that Americans would be able to receive a third booster shot against Covid-19. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

President Biden claimed yesterday to have been “raised in the Puerto Rican community, politically” during a visit to the island territory to survey damage from Hurricane Fiona.

THE QUOTE

In his remarks at Ponce, Biden remarked: “We have a very, in relative terms, large Puerto Rican population, in Delaware. We have the eighth largest black population in the country.”

Biden: "I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community at home politically." pic.twitter.com/iapq1qqxpx
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“And between all minorities, we have 20 percent of our state is minority,” he continued. “So I was sort of raised in the Puerto Rican community, politically.”

SAME ENERGY

In July, the president’s wife, first lady Jill Biden, expressed her love for the Latino community by comparing it to the “breakfast tacos” in San Antonio, Texas.

Days after, she apologized for her remarks.

THE QUOTE

SAME ENERGY

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