KEY POINTS

  • On Super Tuesday in Michigan, an auto worker accused Joe Biden of wanting to "take away our guns"
  • Biden replied by saying the man is "full of s--t"
  • Back in December, a voter accused Biden of selling access to Obama by getting his son on the board of Burisma
  • Biden blasted the man as a “damn liar,” and “fat” and “too old to vote for me”

For the second time in three months, former vice president and Democratic Party presidential front runner Joe Biden has gotten into a very public and ugly spat with a voter that pushed all the wrong buttons. And for the second time in three months, the man Biden tangled with wasn't angry enough to say he wouldn't vote for Biden in November.

Jerry Wayne, a Detroit auto worker, got into it with Biden before Super Tuesday on March 3. Biden visited Wayne's Detroit car assembly plant and was seen on video wending his way through a sea of guys in hard hats when Wayne stopped him and said, "You're actively trying to take away our Second Amendment right and take away our guns."

Biden snaps back, "You're full of s--t." After shushing the noisy crowd, Biden says, "They're going to take your AR-14s away." To which Wayne replies, "You're working for me, man."

The remark gets Biden's attention. Biden faces Wayne to say, "I'm not working for you. Give me a break, man. Don't be such a horse's a--."

"Fox & Friends" got the chance to ask Wayne for his version of the event. As Wayne recounted, Biden "started making his rounds, shaking people's hands, and he made it to my way. And I stopped him, and I started to ask him a question."

Wayne noted Biden "could have easily said, 'I'm not taking questions,' and I would have very respectfully walked away. But he wanted to listen to my question, and I don't think that he was ready for it."

Wayne said he was "pretty articulate and respectful" in dealing with Biden and "didn't try to raise any feathers." He was surprised Biden "kind of just went off the deep end."

Wayne said the heated argument didn't piss him off badly enough to not consider voting for Biden in November.

"I'm respectfully going to keep that to myself," Wayne said when asked who he'd vote for. "It's my right as a United States citizen. I'm going to practice that."

Wayne also said he was not offended by the Democratic presidential candidate's use of profanity, saying "I don't think that's something to beat the guy up about. But he could have curved what he said a little bit, sure."

Joe Biden supporters point to his role in helping orchestrate the Barack Obama administration's 2009 bailout of GM and Chrysler
Joe Biden supporters point to his role in helping orchestrate the Barack Obama administration's 2009 bailout of GM and Chrysler AFP / MANDEL NGAN

Back in early December 2019, during a campaign event in New Hampton, Biden crossed swords with a man that described himself as “old, Iowa retired farmer.” This man, who said he was 83-year-old, said Trump "has been messing around in Ukraine over there, holding their foreign aid for them to come up saying they’re going to investigate you."

He then said Biden sent Hunter "over there to get a job and work for a gas company that he had no experience with gas or nothing in order to get access for the president. You’re selling access to the president just like he does ...”

Biden blew-up. He blasted the man as a “damn liar,” and “fat” and “too old to vote for me.”

“You’re a damn liar, man!” snarled Biden. “That’s not true and no one has ever said that. No one has proved that.”

″I see it on the TV,” said the man.

“No one has said my son has done anything wrong and I did not on any occasion," said Biden.

When the man said, “I didn’t say you were doing anything wrong,” Biden became angrier.

“You said I set up my son to work in an oil company. Isn’t that what you said? Get your words straight, Jack,” said Biden. “You said I set up my son to work in an oil company. Isn’t that what you said? Get your words straight, Jack."

The man then said, “It looks, it looks like you don’t have any more backbone than Trump does.”

Interviewed later by NBC News, the 83 year-old said, “I’ll more than likely support the Democratic nominee.”

“Even if it’s Joe Biden?” asked the NBC reporter.

“Even if it’s him. I’ll have to,” the man replied. “Because I can’t vote for Trump, if it’s Trump.”