"Where's Jackie?" : when Joe Biden looks for a parliamentarian who died in August

président américain Joe Bidenspoke in a speech on Wednesday to a deceased Republican parliamentarian. A statement that raised many questions during the daily briefing by White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre. The Head of State gave a speech devoted to the fight against obesity and food insecurity. "I want to thank everyone who is here," he said, mentioning two other parliamentarians particularly involved in these matters, a Republican and a Democrat. In the process, he seemed to look in the room for former member of the House of Representatives Jackie Walorski, an elected Republican from Indiana who died in early August in a car accident, who was very committed to the fight against malnutrition. "Where's Jackie?" asked the 79-year-old Democrat. The elected official had actively contributed to the preparation of a major summit devoted to this problem, during which Joe Biden spoke on Wednesday. The White House had published a statement after his death in which the American president said he was "shocked and saddened". "He was thinking very hard about her" Bombarded with questions on this subject to find out if Joe Biden had forgotten that the parliamentarian was dead, White House spokeswoman Karine Jean-Pierre did not really answer. “He thought very strongly of her” during this event to which she had actively contributed, she only assured. "I don't find it disturbing," she said again to the journalists who insisted. Karine Jean-Pierre added that Joe Biden had already planned to meet the family of the deceased parliamentarian on Friday.