WATCH: Biden Gets Distracted By Baby, Wanders Off Stage; “Couldn’t Resist”

In the middle of an Arizona campaign event on Tuesday, Joe Biden abruptly wandered off the stage after being distracted by the presence of a baby in the crowd.

According to Biden, he simply “couldn’t resist.”

Watch the awkward moment here:

WATCH: Biden wanders off stage in the middle of a campaign event after getting distracted by a baby.

“Well, folks, I have to tell you straight up I like you all, but I couldn’t resist that little baby.” pic.twitter.com/ei4S6TBTMQ

— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 20, 2024

Biden’s campaign manager was about a minute into delivering opening remarks at the ‘Latinos for President Biden’ rally when Biden randomly strolled away and sat down next to the baby, who was being held by its mother.

Biden began touching the baby and asking the mom questions, at one point appearing to mouth, “How old?”

When he finally took his place back on stage, Biden explained,

“Well, folks, I have to tell you straight up. I like you all, but I couldn’t resist that little baby.”

Well, at least he didn’t try to sniff him…

WHERE'S JOE GOING? Biden awkwardly wanders off stage because he 'couldn't resist' a baby in the crowd during a campaign event. https://t.co/Ns2gT5Ztgk pic.twitter.com/mEbm3B58f5

— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 20, 2024

Now, this isn’t so surprising.

We all know that Biden loves young children…

Except for his son Hunter’s 4-year-old child, that is…

It only took 4 seconds for Biden to recognize a stranger’s baby but it took 4 years to recognize Hunter’s. pic.twitter.com/LSb58jp28A

— Derrick Van Orden (@derrickvanorden) March 20, 2024

Fox News commented on the strange moment during Biden’s campaign event:

During a campaign event in Arizona on Tuesday, President Biden abruptly wandered off the stage after he noticed a baby in the crowd.

The seemingly awkward moment in Phoenix came as Biden was standing behind his campaign manager, Julie Chávez Rodríguez, who was sharing her brief opening remarks during the Latinos for President Biden rally.

As she was speaking, Biden noticed the baby and a brief moment later, he walked off and sat down with the baby and its mother.

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“Well, folks, I have to tell you straight up,” Biden said at the Mexican restaurant called El Portal, returning to the stage. “I like you all, but I couldn’t resist that little baby.”

The New York Post added:

President Biden on Tuesday wandered off stage, beelined toward a baby and sat in the crowd as he was being introduced at a campaign event in Phoenix.

“Well, folks, I have to tell you straight up,” the 81-year-old president told his supporters after venturing back on stage.

“I like you all, but I couldn’t resist that little baby.”

Biden campaign manager Julie Chávez Rodríguez — the granddaughter of labor icon César Chávez — was about a minute into her brief opening remarks when the president bolted from the stage.

Biden continued to sit in the booth next to the mother holding her infant through the entirety of Chávez Rodríguez’s remarks and the next speaker’s speech.

“How old?” Biden appeared to ask the mom, as he chatted her and the baby up during his introduction.

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Biden, who has seven grandchildren — though he rarely acknowledges the existence of first son Hunter Biden’s out-of-wedlock child with former stripper Lunden Roberts — has previously declared that he likes “babies better than people.”