The court jester strikes again.
(The Hill) — Vice President Biden took a shot at Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich while meeting with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday, signaling the extent to which the former Speaker of the House has muscled his way back into serious contention for the presidency.
Biden and Erdogan were scheduled to meet for about 45 minutes, but the leaders ended up meeting for two hours — despite the fact that Erdogan had recently undergone minor surgery and his doctors were advising him to cut the meeting short.
Biden credited their close relationship and substantive discussion with prolonging the meeting — and got in a swipe at Gingrich.
“I don’t want to sound like Newt Gingrich — I don’t want to sound like I’m inflating my importance or relationship with him,” Biden said, referring to Erdogan, according to The Wall Street Journal. “But we have listened to each other. And he was genuinely listening to my perspective and wasn’t challenging it.”