Too soon, Ted.
GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz made an ill-timed, ill-received
joke about grieving Vice President Biden Wednesday night — just days
after Biden’s son, Beau, died of brain cancer.
Less than an hour after bombing with his Biden barb, clumsy comic Cruz apologized for his remarks.
Cruz cracked his joke during a half-hour speech at a Livingston County
Republican Party dinner in Howell, Mich., with about 650 fellow
Republicans packed into a banquet hall, according to the Detroit News.
“Vice President Joe Biden,” Cruz, a Texas Senator, told the crowd. “You
know the nice thing? You don’t need a punch line.” (The joke starts at
17:30 in the audio clip.)
“I promise you it works,” he went on, to laughter and applause. “The
next party you’re at, just walk up to someone and say, ‘Vice President
Joe Biden’ and just close your mouth. They will crack up laughing.”
The joke comes four days after the death of Beau Biden, 46, an Iraq War
veteran and former two-term attorney general of Delaware. He is set to
be buried in Delaware on Saturday.
Within an hour of his joke, as social media lit up with outrage, Cruz apologized on his Facebook page.
“It was a mistake to use an old joke about Joe Biden during his time of
grief, and I sincerely apologize,” he wrote. “The loss of his son is
heartbreaking and tragic, and our prayers are very much with the Vice
President and his family.”
Cruz has been repeating the same “old joke” about Biden since at least 2013.
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