Michelle Obama repeatedly mispronounced U.S. Senate candidate Bruce Braley’s (D) name during her speech in Iowa, the Des Moines Register reports.
She referred to the Iowa congressman as “Bruce Bailey” seven times before people in the crowd pointed out the mistake.
Said Mrs. Obama: “Braley. What did I say? I am losing it. I am getting old. I have been traveling too much.”
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