"You have just seen what happened in Italy in those elections. You will see what will happen in the world. The reason I worry about saying this is that you cannot be optimistic even about what will happen here": said Joe Biden evoking the outcome. of the Italian elections at a fundraising event of the US Democratic Party, while warning about the fate of democracy.
This was reported by the pool of journalists following the American president.
Biden spoke off the cuff at a Democratic Governors Association reception.
The first to report her words on Twitter was Associated Press White House correspondent Seung Min Kim.
Then the statement was confirmed by journalist Alexander Nazaryan, correspondent for Yahoo News.