US President Joe Biden at the Democratic National Committee rally at Richard Montgomery High School. File photoMOSCOW, Oct 4US President Joe Biden embellished his speech in Puerto Rico with a story about working in the state of Delaware with a high percentage of Puerto Ricans among national minorities, writes the New York Post. The day before, Biden admitted that a large community of Puerto Ricans lived in Delaware at the beginning of his career as a politician, therefore he «grew up among them».
Americans feared for Biden's condition after images from Puerto Rico «Biden has a habit of embellishing his belonging to the audience to which he speaks. The speech on the south coast of the island was no exception,» the material says. According to journalists, Biden was elected for the first time to the US Senate in 1972. According to the 1970 US Census, there were approximately 2,154 people in Delaware who were born in Puerto Rico or whose parents were from Puerto Rico. This is 0.39 percent of the total population, which at that time numbered about 550 thousand people. Moreover, the president did not mention any business ties to Puerto Ricans in Delaware in his 2007 memoir, and the White House was unable to provide a single example when asked for comment by the NYP. On Monday, Biden and his wife, Jill, visited the freely associated state Puerto Rico, affected by Hurricane Fiona. A natural disaster left without light the entire territory of Puerto Rico, it was accompanied by record rainfall — in some regions up to a thousand millimeters fell. Biden vowed to significantly expand federal aid to deal with the effects of the weather.
