Joe Biden's Bleeding Eye

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Joe Biden's Bleeding Eye refers to presidential candidate Joe Biden's left eye during CNN's climate change town hall in September 2019. A blood vessel in Biden's eye ruptured filling his eye with blood while he answered questions. Although the incident was ignored within the program, Twitter users commented on his eye during the program.

Origin

On September 4th, 2019, CNN hosted a seven hour long town hall allowing each democratic presidential candidate time to address their plans to tackle the climate change problem.^[1] While Joe Biden addressed fossil fuels his eye gradually filled with blood. Twitter users like @WalkerBragman began to notice and comment on it even though it had happened in the past (shown below).^[2]

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On September 4th, 2019, during the CNN Town Hall, Joe Biden^[3] posted a tweet that started with, "We can't turn a blind eye" (shown below, left). The tweet gained over 750 likes in a day. Twitter user @alx was quick to respond with a photo of Biden's eye captioned, "Don’t turn a Bloodshot eye either" (shown below, center). Throughout the night, Twitter users posted images of Biden's eye commenting on its sinister appearance. Twitter user @NumbersMuncher^[4] posted several shots of his eye captioned, "The Eye of Biden the Terrible few could endure" (shown below, right). The tweet garnered over 370 likes and 100 retweets in a day.