“Mics are hot,” a staff member said at the start of the stream.
“Ready to go?” Biden asked as he appeared on the screen. He looked to his staff, then to the camera, scratched his nose, looked at his staff, and then looked back to the camera again.
“Good morning. I hope you and your family are doing well in these difficult and anxious times,” he began.
At another point, Biden gestured to his staff to move a teleprompter to the next point in his prepared script.
“In addition to that, we have to make sure that we are in a position that we are — well, let me, let me go to the second thing, I spoke enough on that,” Biden said after calling for activating the doctors in Reserve Corps. He transitioned to criticizing Trump for calling himself a "wartime president."
It was the type of redirection that would be minor for Biden when he speaks to rooms of voters, but it came across like a mistake during a direct-to-screen scripted address. He also mispronounced the Massachusetts governor's name, calling him Charlie Parker rather than Baker.
