(OPINION) Joe Biden’s phone call to former campaign staffers on Monday has sparked new theories on the president’s health after an odd moment between the president and Kamala Harris.
The 81-year-old spoke in a scratchy voice from COVID isolation at his Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, home and told Harris: ‘I’m watching you, kid’.
However, many noted a strange exchange between the vice president and her boss, who has not been seen in five days and since he shocked the world by dropping out of the race via a letter posted to social media on Sunday.
The new presumptive Democratic nominee Harris said: ‘Joe, I know you’re still on the rec… on the call.’
With many having wildly suggested Biden is seriously ill because of the way he announced his departure, conservative firebrand Marjorie Taylor Greene wondered if the game had been given up by Harris’ slip of the tongue.
Greene was referring to Harris clearly starting to say the word ‘recording’ before correcting herself and saying ‘call’ to Biden. ‘Did Kamala spill the beans? Was it a recording? That’s what she started to say,’ Greene said Monday.
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk called it a ‘very strange slip’ which got Congresswoman Lauren Boebert’s attention.
The Colorado representative, who has been one of the most vocal people curious of Biden’s absence, asked: ‘Where is Joe?’
Another account pointed out campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez’s reaction to Biden’s planned remarks.
‘Pay attention to the body language of the woman at the podium; she knows something is clearly wrong here. She never has an actual conversation with Biden, prompting people to believe this was most likely a previously recorded audio or AI.’
Biden, as previously mentioned, has been unable to speak publicly since testing positive for COVID last week.
His ‘symptoms have almost resolved completely’ from COVID-19, according to his physician, as the president on Monday remained out of public view for the fifth straight day.
Biden´s physician, Dr. Kevin O´Connor, said that the president had completed his 10th dose of the COVID-fighting medication Paxlovid on Monday morning and continued to perform all of his presidential duties.
‘His symptoms have almost resolved completely. His pulse, blood pressure, respiratory rate and temperature remain absolutely normal,’ O´Connor wrote. ‘His oxygen saturation continues to be excellent on room air. His lungs remain clear.’
