By the Republican National Committee

• [After] Republicans … present[ed] themselves and their policies to the American people, let’s remember who they’re fighting to replace.
• Biden has been doing political debates for 50 years, having taken part in at least 40 candidate debates since 1972.
• Despite this experience, Biden’s debate performances have been described as “shaky” and “pretty bad.”
• From musing about “clipping coupons in the stock market,” to calling Bernie Sanders “the president,” Biden has had a tough time on debate stages.

BIDEN HAS MADE A CAREER OF LYING ON THE DEBATE STAGE

• Biden has a long track record of lying – about himself, about statistics, and about events that never took place.
  • During the two 2020 presidential debates alone, Biden lied or made misleading claims a combined 65 times.
• In 1987, Biden plagiarized a speech by British Labour leader Neil Kinnock during a debate in Iowa, at the time Biden claimed that he came up with the comments “on the way to the debate.”
  • Biden withdrew from 1988 presidential race under charges of plagiarism and embellishment: “Now the exaggerated shadow of those mistakes has begun to obscure the essence of my candidacy and the essence of Joe Biden.”
• At a 2007 presidential debate, Biden claimed that he had been fired upon in Iraq.
  • Biden was forced to correct his lie to say that a more accurate comment would have been: “I was near where a shot landed.”
• At the September 2019 debate, Biden claimed that the Obama-Biden administration “didn’t lock people up in cages.”
  • According to the Associated Press, the “cages” used at detention facilities were first “built and used by the Obama administration.”
• In a July 2019 presidential primary debate, Biden claimed that he has been fighting to eliminate the crack-powder-cocaine disparity.
  • Biden helped write the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 which created the crack-cocaine sentencing disparity.
• During a debate in October 2020, Joe Biden pushed his often repeated lie that Hunter’s laptop was Russian disinformation, calling concerns surrounding the legitimate laptop “a bunch of garbage.”
  • Biden also cited a letter from “50 former national intelligence folks” to push his false dismal of the laptop, which we have learned then-Biden campaign advisor Antony Blinken played a role in developing.
• During a debate on March 15, 2020, Biden claimed he would “immediately, as president, surge to the border” to solve the crisis.
  • Instead, more than 7.5 million illegal immigrants have surged across the border since Biden took office.
• During the October 2020 presidential debate, Biden claimed that no one lost their insurance under Obamacare.
  • In 2013, PolitiFact named “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it” the Lie of the Year.
• During the March 2020 presidential debate, Biden denied that he supported a bankruptcy law that prevented students from discharging their student loans.
  • In March 2020, The Washington Post‘s fact checker Glenn Kessler wrote “one of [Biden’s] biggest legislative accomplishments was the 2005 passage of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection act.”

BIDEN HAS OFTEN GOTTEN CONFUSED WHILE DEBATING

• In a June 2019 primary debate, Biden took credit for banning “the number of clips in a gun.”
• At the July 2019 debate, while other candidates told voters to visit their websites, Biden told people “go to joe30330.”
  • Biden also referred to Sen. Cory Booker as “the future president” during the debate.
• During the September 2019 debate, Biden referred to Senator Bernie Sanders as “the president.”
  • Biden also told Americans to “make sure you have the record player on at night” and bizarrely claimed “I’m the Vice President of the United States.”
• At the October 2019 debate, Biden referenced people “clipping coupons in the stock market.”
  • Biden also suggested Sen. Bernie Sanders is Vladimir Putin, often struggled to form coherent sentences, and shouted at Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
  • Despite his struggles, he gave his debate performance an “A.”

BIDEN HAS USED DEBATES TO ASSERT HIS COMMITMENT TO THE FAR-LEFT, WITH VARYING SUCCESS

• In a July 2019 Democrat primary debate, Biden said that there would be no place for fossil fuels in a Biden administration.
  • During the December 2019 primary debate, Biden said that he is willing to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of blue-collar jobs in order to transition to a greener economy.
  • In the March 2020 debate, Biden said he would not allow any new coal plants to be built, that he would not allow any new fracking, and that there would be “no ability for the oil industry to continue to drill.”
  • In the October 2020 presidential debate, Biden said he “would transition from the oil industry.”
• In a June 2007 debate, Biden said that he opposes deporting illegal immigrants, saying “folks, being commander in chief requires you to occasionally be practical.”
  • At the June 2019 Democrat presidential primary debate, Biden raised his hand when asked if his health care plan would provide coverage for illegal immigrants and when asked if border should be decriminalized.
• In June 2019, during a democratic debate in Miami, Biden raised his hand when asked directly if his health care plan would cover undocumented immigrants.
• During the September 2019 primary debate, Biden said that “nobody should be in jail for a nonviolent crime.”
  • Biden’s campaign had to immediately walk back his statement, clarifying that he meant non-violent drug related crimes.
• During a Democrat presidential primary debate in 2007, Biden received heavy scrutiny for his comments that he traveled to the “black sections” of his town to promote AIDs testing and condom use.
  • At the time, Obama gave Biden a “you’ve-got-to-be-kidding glance.”
• At a November 2019 debate, Biden bragged that he had the endorsement of “the only African American woman who’s ever been elected to the United States Senate,” to which Kamala Harris responded “No, No, That’s not true. The other one is here!”

Originally posted here.