Joe Biden somehow just made his 'Joe 30330' mixup even more confusing

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published 1 August 2019

Joe Biden is still making mistakes.

After being roundly criticized during Wednesday night's Democratic primary debates, the former vice president finished off the night with a big bungle of his own. His closing statement was riddled with errors regarding how much longer President Trump would be in office and, most oddly, a call for viewers to "go to Joe 30330 and help me in this fight."

It quickly seemed clear that Biden hadn't meant to relay a URL like his competitors had, but to request that supporters text a number associated with his campaign. Still, URL's reminiscent of Joe30330.com were quickly scooped up by competing campaigns and totally random people. That mishap somehow became Biden's biggest regret of the night, but as he went to correct it, failed miserably once again.

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To put that into context, replacing "Joe" with "text" would've made the sentence as follows: "Go to text 30330 and help me in this fight." But as this post from Biden's campaign makes clear, that's still not exactly what he meant. Kathryn Krawczyk

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Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.