Joe Biden told a factory worker ‘you’re full of sh–‘ during a tense argument over guns

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden meets workers as he tours the Fiat Chrysler plant in Detroit, Michigan on March 10, 2020.

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Leading Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden called a Detroit factory worker “full of s—” in a testy exchange on gun policy Tuesday as voters cast ballots in Michigan's crucial primary.

Video shared by reporters on Biden's tour of the Detroit auto plant shows the former vice president surrounded by workers as he argues face to face with a man in a hard hat and an orange high-visibility vest.

The worker accuses Biden of “actively trying to end our Second Amendment right.”

Biden immediately responds: “You're full of s—.”

Biden was reportedly visiting with members of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers who are building a new Fiat Chrysler assembly plant.

“I support the Second Amendment,” Biden says in the clip. But “the Second Amendment – just like right now, if you yell ‘fire,' that's not free speech.”

“I have a shotgun, I have a 20-gauge, a 12-gauge,” Biden said. “You're not allowed to own [just] any weapon. I'm not taking your gun away at all. You need 100 rounds?” 

The worker then claims Biden had said he was going to take guns away.

“I did not say that! I did not say that!” Biden fired back, raising his voice.

The worker said he had heard Biden make that claim in a viral video.

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“It's a viral video like the other ones that came out” that were “lies,” Biden said.

A spokesman for Biden's campaign did not immediately respond to CNBC's request for comment on the video.

The clash with a worker came as Biden hopes to win Michigan's primary — and the bulk of its 125 pledged delegates — and put more distance between him and rival Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders, who fell behind in polls and delegates after Super Tuesday.

Biden is now considered the clear front-runner to clinch the Democratic nomination and take on President Donald Trump in November.

This is not the first time Biden has locked horns on the campaign trail. After a man in Iowa made baseless accusations about his son Hunter, Biden called him “a damn liar” and “fat.”

A spokeswoman claimed at the time that Biden had said, “Look, facts,” not “Look, fat,” referring to the man.

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