On the White Home press briefing Wednesday, Fox Information’ Peter Doocy and White Home Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre acquired right into a back-and-forth about President Joe Biden’s joke Tuesday referring to Virginia’s former Democratic Gov. Terry McAuliffe because the state’s “actual governor”:
Doocy: “Is election denying a joke now?”
Jean-Pierre: “What do you imply? You need to say extra than simply make a random assertion.”
Doocy: “Why did the president say, ‘Hey, Virginia, and the actual governor, Terry McAuliffe?’”
Jean-Pierre: “He was making a joke about Terry McAuliffe. He was making a joke.”
Doocy: “What’s the joke?”
Jean-Pierre: “I imply, when you play it again, it’s clearly that the president was making a joke.”
Doocy: “What’s the joke?”
Jean-Pierre: “He was making a joke about McAuliffe’s earlier time period as governor.”
Doocy: “How are you guys going to persuade folks, although, that this concept of denying election outcomes could be very dangerous, if President Biden goes out and making jokes like this?”
Jean-Pierre: “He didn’t deny. He didn’t deny it. He congratulated Gov. Youngkin. Matter of reality, when he received his election, he did it out of the gate. Out of the gate. Actually. Really. He congratulated the governor. And never solely that, we’ve had alternatives to work carefully with the governor over the previous couple of years. And, you realize, it is a president that works throughout the aisle. We’ve seen that many occasions. And he was making a joke.”
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