Joe Biden Finger Bite

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Joe Biden Finger Bite refers to a viral video of 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden biting his wife's finger on stage during his November 2019 "No Malarkey!" campaign tour stop in Council Bluffs, Iowa. His wife was gesturing near Biden's head unknowingly so Biden jokingly quickly nibbled at her finger. A still shot of Biden biting her finger began circulating Twitter in December 2019.

Origin

On November 30th, 2019, CBS reporter Bo Erickson posted a video with the caption "@JoeBiden's "No Malarkey!" Iowa bus tour starts in Council Bluffs with laughs: An excited @DrBiden gestures and almost hits Joe in the head…and then he bit her finger:" (show below). The video garnered over 750 likes and 200 retweets in two days.

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On November 30th, 2019, Twitter user @SteveGuest^[1] reposted the video and accumulated over 4,400 likes and 1,800 retweets i two days and then replied with a still image of the moment which gained over 670 likes in two days (shown below, left). That same day, Twitter user @ashleyfeinberg^[2] tweeted two zoomed-in still images of the moment captioning them "as you can see, he did not have a lot of time to aim and, what's more, he was going after a moving target--and yet the entire upper third of the finger, directly in the center of the mouth" (shown below, right). The tweet garnered over 640 likes in two days.

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