President Biden repeatedly said “no more drilling” and nearly collapsed onstage when he joined Gov. Kathy Hochul in Yonkers on Sunday in a last-ditch effort to help her try to stave off GOP challenger Lee Zeldin. 

Biden, who hasn’t been doing much midterm campaigning, was among other Democratic heavyweights who have tried to come to Hochul’s rescue in the past week as Zeldin catches up to her in polls.

“No more drilling,” Biden snapped at a climate protester who was heckling him.

“There is no more drilling. I haven’t formed any new drilling,” Biden said incredulously.  

A confused Biden tried to assuage the protester and return back to his speech.

Biden and Hochul appeared at Sarah Lawrence College in a rally attended by hundreds, where Biden at one point stumbled on the stage and appeared to lose his footing.

“Whoops,” he said as he recovered his stance.

The 79-year-old Biden regained his footing unlike in June when he fell off his bike or when he stumbled while walking up the stairs to Air Force One last year.

“New York, you got two days, two days to make sure the rest of your state knows the good that they’ve got in Kathy Hochul,” Biden said.

The president brought up Zeldin’s tenure as a congressman, slamming the Republican for voting against the Democratic agenda, including Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.

“It’s going to reduce the cost of everything that New Yorkers pay for every month,” Biden said of the act. “You know, Congressman Zeldin voted against that as well.”

He also said Zeldin won’t keep New Yorkers safe because he won’t take guns off the street and has historically sided with the NRA.

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“[Hochul’s] opponent’s plan for public safety is to put more guns on the street,” Biden said. “He opposed red flag laws which would have taken guns out of the hands of people who pose a danger to themselves and others. Look, what kind of sense does that make?”

The president also slammed Republicans’ “trickle-down economics” and blamed former President Donald Trump for the slumping economy. 

“I said from the beginning my objective when I ran was to build an economy from the bottom up and the middle out and I tell you what it’s a fundamental shift and it’s working compared to the MAGA-mega Republican trickle down economics,” he said. “You saw what happened last time under my predecessor — the economy, he left it in ruins.”

The 79-year-old also misgendered the German chancellor as he shared an anecdote about the G7 leaders’ summit in the United Kingdom, referring to Olaf Scholz as “she.” 

“I think it was Scholz of Germany, but I can’t remember for certain. One of them said to me, she said, Mr. President, what would you think if you went to bed tonight here in England at this meeting, and woke up and found out a mob of 1,000 people broke down the doors in the British Parliament, went down the halls, ended up killing two police officers and injuring scores of people to stop the outcome of election? What would you think?” Biden said.

The president may have been referring to former Chancellor Angela Merkel, who attended the G7 summit in Cornwall, England in 2021. Scholz hosted this year’s summit in Germany. 

Biden’s long-winded story was interrupted when he spotted someone who had fainted in the audience and called out for medical help from the stage.

“Someone fainted,” he informed the crowd. He then instructed those around the person to raise their hands so the medical staff could see where to go.

Medics assisted the person and received cheers after the president assured the crowd the person was being taken care of.

Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, who is also up for re-election, told the rally’s attendees before the president went on that Gov. Hochul “worries about results, not the headlines.

“If Democrats turn out in record numbers, she will win. But we can’t be complacent. We can’t take it for granted. We can’t say, ‘Oh, New York is a Democratic state, I don’t have to vote,’ ” Schumer told the crowd, adding they need to fight against “the MAGA Republican war on women and their radical anti-choice agenda.” 

Schumer took some shots at Zeldin as well.

“Lee Zeldin, as you know, recently you’ve seen him on TV only starting to ride the subway. But guess who voted against the $15 billion to keep our subways and mass transit and commuter rails going? Lee Zeldin voted no,” Schumer said. 

New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand also spoke to the crowd.

Schumer rallied for Hochul earlier this week in Brooklyn along with former President Clinton as part of the governor’s frenzied effort to win ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections. She was also joined at one event by Vice President Kamala Harris and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. 

One of the governor’s campaign events this week was marred by violence when a female pro-Zeldin protester was choked by a man during a skirmish at the Manhattan rally. 

The melee happened near the landmark Stonewall Inn, where Hochul was appearing with Bravo host Andy Cohen.

Hochul has a 7.4-point advantage in the race, according to poll aggregator FiveThirtyEight.