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Watch: Biden bagpipes blunder

24 March 2021

4:01 AM

24 March 2021

4:01 AM

President Biden makes much of his links to the Emerald Isle, in no small part perhaps because 35 million of his countrymen view themselves as Irish American and live disproportionately in swing states.

Biden, who proudly describes himself as ‘five eights’ Irish once responded to a British journalist ‘BBC? I’m Irish’ and was clearly keen to remind Americans of his links this week for St Patrick’s Day. His

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