The President said ‘We went to 54 states’ as he recalled the campaign defending Obamacare in the 2018 midterm elections
Joe Biden said there were 54 states in the United States in a new gaffe on the midterm elections campaign trail.
There are 50 US states but the president got the number wrong during a speech at a Democrat campaign event in Pennsylvania.
Mr Biden was recalling how, during the previous midterm elections in 2018, Republicans had vowed to overturn the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare.
He said: “And, of course, they’re going to try for the 499th time, or whatever the number is.