US President Joe Biden misspoke in a speech March 18 offering updates on vaccination progress in the US, referring to his vice president as ‘President Harris,’ Report informs referring to Fox News.
“When President Harris and I took ...” Biden said, before momentarily pausing, “a virtual tour of a vaccination site in Arizona not long ago, one of the nurses on that tour injecting people, giving vax each shot, was like administering a dose of hope.”
The president has made such gaffes before. In December he mistakenly referred to Harris as ‘president-elect,’ also during a speech on COVID vaccines.
“I took it to instill public confidence in the vaccine. President-elect Harris took hers today for the same reason,” Biden said.
Harris, too, once accidentally dubbed herself commander-in-chief. “A Harris administration, together with Joe Biden as the president of the United States,” she said at a virtual roundtable in September.