{"id":215236,"date":"2020-10-19T07:30:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T07:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215236"},"modified":"2020-10-21T07:13:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T07:13:25","slug":"joe-biden-reads-from-a-giant-teleprompter-at-another-sparsely-attended-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=215236","title":{"rendered":"Joe Biden reads from a giant teleprompter at another sparsely attended rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Paul Sacca \u2013 The Blaze Oct 17, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Biden-reads-from-teleprompter-at-Detroit-rally.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-215237\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Biden-reads-from-teleprompter-at-Detroit-rally.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Biden-reads-from-teleprompter-at-Detroit-rally.jpg 623w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/Biden-reads-from-teleprompter-at-Detroit-rally-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Despite Joe Biden reportedly holding a commanding lead over President Donald Trump in the polls, some which show the former vice president <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2020\/president\/us\/general_election_trump_vs_biden-6247.html\">leading by double digits<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Biden continues to draw anything remotely close to a sizeable crowd. The concerning lack of excitement over Biden&#8217;s campaign was punctuated last week when the Democratic presidential nominee and his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) made a campaign stop in Phoenix, and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/no-one-showed-up-biden-event\">there was zero fanfare to greet them<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Biden campaign experienced another dismal rally on Friday in Detroit, Michigan. Biden appeared at a &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2020\/10\/15\/joe-biden-michigan-detroit-southfield-campaign\/3670696001\/\">voter mobilization event<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&#8221; in Detroit at around 6:20 p.m. on Friday. This was a drive-in rally at the Michigan State Fairgrounds in Novi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Video from the sparsely attended rally was shared on Twitter, where online commenters quickly noticed that Biden&#8217;s teleprompter was bigger than his crowd.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Joe Biden reads from teleprompter at sparsely-attended campaign rally in Detroit, Mich. Video by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BGOnTheScene?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BGOnTheScene<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nfA0R2xDDq\">pic.twitter.com\/nfA0R2xDDq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Ng\u00f4 (@MrAndyNgo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MrAndyNgo\/status\/1317493780149268480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The Biden campaign has been sensitive towards questions regarding Joe&#8217;s use of teleprompters. Last month, Biden&#8217;s national press secretary for the campaign <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/biden-spokesman-flips-out-when-asked-if-presidential-nominee-used-teleprompter-for-interviews\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>became extremely defensive when he was asked about teleprompters<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Fox News&#8217; Bret Baier asked Biden spokesman TJ Ducklo, &#8220;Has Joe Biden ever used a teleprompter during local interviews or to answer Q&amp;A with supporters?&#8221; Despite being asked the question several times, Ducklo never answered the question, dismissing the query as &#8220;straight from the Trump campaign talking points.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Days after Ducklo&#8217;s interview, the Trump campaign released an ad titled &#8220;<a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pTtABxyqIUk&amp;feature=emb_title\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Joe&#8217;s Teleprompter<\/strong><\/span><\/a>,&#8221; highlighting Biden&#8217;s seeming dependence on a teleprompter during interviews.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">In addition to the meager crowd at Biden&#8217;s rally on Friday, Detroit was no picnic for Biden. Besides his poor turnout at the rally, Biden was asked about the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/email-joe-biden-met-with-burisma-exec\">New York Post article featuring alleged emails from Hunter Biden<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, which outline his son&#8217;s reported overseas dealings in Ukraine and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #ccffff; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/hunter-biden-emails-chinese-energy-company\">in China<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Right before Biden boarded a plane in Detroit, CBS News reporter Bo Erickson asked the former vice president for his response to the article. <a style=\"color: #ccffff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/watch-joe-biden-lashes-out-at-cbs-news-reporter-for-asking-about-ny-posts-story-on-hunter\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Biden lashed out<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, called it a &#8220;smear campaign,&#8221; adding, &#8220;Right up your alley, those are the questions you always ask.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I asked Joe Biden: What is your response to the NYPost story about your son, sir?<\/p>\n<p>He called it a \u201csmear campaign\u201d and then went after me. \u201cI know you\u2019d ask it. I have no response, it\u2019s another smear campaign, right up your alley, those are the questions you always ask.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Eo6VD4TqxD\">pic.twitter.com\/Eo6VD4TqxD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Bo Erickson CBS (@BoKnowsNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BoKnowsNews\/status\/1317275294194085888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theblaze.com\/news\/joe-biden-teleprompter-crowd-size\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrast the few listening to Biden speak to Trump\u2019s well-attended and enthusiastic rally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-Current_Affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215236"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215239,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215236\/revisions\/215239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}