During a virtual town hall event last week, in response to a question about how he planned to appeal to young voters, Joe Biden harkened back to his experience as a university professor following his departure from the United States Senate:
When I left the United States Senate I became a professor at the University of Pennsylvania … and the University of Delaware has the Biden school as well, so I’ve spent a lot of time … on campus with college students.”
It’s fair to say many viewers probably drew the most obvious conclusion: that the former vice president had left public office (presumably the vice presidency, rather than the Senate as Biden had said) and taken up work lecturing to young people at the University of Pennsylvania.
The problem? Biden never actually taught at Penn.
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