President Biden said he got “mixed up” Thursday after claiming that he took a photo backstage with Rep. Deborah Ross (D-NC) during an event in North Carolina.
“Where’s Deborah?” Biden, 81, asked during a speech in Raleigh as he searched for the two-term congressman at an event focused on the 2021 bipartisan infrastructure act.
“I just had my picture taken with her, that’s probably why she left,” Biden at first joked.
Moments later, the president added, “Oh, she couldn’t be here actually. That’s not true, I got mixed up … She’s up in Washington right now.”
The president later in his remarks referred to the United States as a “major company” when he meant to say country.