Did Joe Biden Really Say ‘We Can Only Re-Elect Donald Trump’?

A deceptively edited video went viral thanks to Trump staffers and campaign accounts.

By Alec Dent

Mar 9, 2020

Dan Scavino, the White House director of social media and presidential assistant, experienced Twitter virality after sharing a clip purportedly from Joe Biden’s campaign rally in St. Louis, Missouri. The clip, actually from a Biden rally in Kansas City, Missouri, shows Biden saying, “we can only re-elect Donald Trump.”

Sleepy Joe💤in St. Louis, Missouri today:

“We can only re-elect @realDonaldTrump.”#KAG2020LandslideVictory🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/FT4q2MWfcD
— Dan Scavino Jr.🇺🇸🦅 (@DanScavino) March 8, 2020

The tweet went viral and was shared by Trump campaign accounts.

https://twitter.com/TeamTrump/status/1236673867889942529

Joe Biden sums up his campaign:

"We cannot win this re-election. We can only re-elect Donald Trump." pic.twitter.com/TrO7pCUCUT

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About Alec Dent

Alec Dent is the culture editor and a staff writer for The Dispatch. He is a graduate of the Hussman School of Journalism and Media at UNC Chapel Hill, and previously oversaw The Dispatch's fact checking team.