Vice President Joe Biden boasts of ‘great relationships’ with Somali cab drivers

Another gaffe by Vice President Joe Biden is driving the news today after he made comments on his “great relationship” with Somali cab drivers.

At the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism on Tuesday, Biden was discussing areas where East African immigrants have settled in the United States, including the “very identifiable” Somali community in his hometown of Wilmington, Del.

Wilmington’s Somali population is likely quite small — in 2012, the U.S. Census Bureau found that 48,000 people in Philadelphia, Camden and Wilmington were born in an African country.

“If you ever come to the train station with me you’ll notice that I have great relationships with them because there’s an awful lot of them driving cabs and are friends of mine, for real,” Biden said.