Vice President Kamala Harris’ interviews, along with the many scandals of running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, were already making her bid for the White House tougher than it should be.
But then President Joe Biden multiplied the struggling campaign’s problems.
Reacting to the off-color comedy performance during former President Donald Trump’s campaign rally on Sunday at Madison Square Garden, Biden said Trump supporters are “garbage.”
And so for two days, the leftist Mainstream Media, as have Biden and his handlers, have attempted to explain away Biden’s clear comments. Problem is, he said what he said … loud and clear.
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The inspiration for Biden’s not-so-smart remark was comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke that Puerto Rico is a “floating island of garbage.”
The slavishly pro-Harris leftists went berserkers, with Harris campaign auxiliary MSNBC comparing the rally to a Nazi gathering at the Garden in 1939.
And so Biden gave Trump a piece of his mind. A small piece, of course, but a piece nonetheless.
“Donald Trump has no character, he doesn’t give a damn about the Latino Community,” Biden said during a phone call with Voto Latino on October 29, calling Trump a “failed businessman”:
He says immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country.” Give me a break. He wants to do away with the birthright citizenship. Who the hell else said that in last 100 years?
And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” Well, let me tell you something. I don’t — I — I don’t know the Puerto Rican that — that I know — or a Puerto Rico, where I’m fr- — in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people.
The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.
An explosion ensued, with Trump backers and others noting that Biden called half the nation “garbage.”
Biden’s handlers posted the requisite apology on X.
Deny, Deny, Deny
The pro-Harris New York Times went into full denial mode, falsely claiming in a headline that Biden “appears” to call Trump supporters “garbage.”
The Hill did the same thing.
White House spokesman Karine Jean-Pierre did her best to deny Biden’s trashy remark.
“Just to clarify, he was not calling Trump supporters garbage,” she said.
The transcript altered Biden’s clear words to show that he used the possessive “supporter’s,” and so he didn’t refer to Trump “supporters”:
The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.
In other words, Hinchcliffe’s demonization of “Latinos” was garbage.
Podcaster Glenn Greenwald, the last of the honest liberals, said that excuse is a dog that just won’t hunt.
He attributed the remark to Biden’s senility.
“A lot of times when you get old and senile and your brain stops functioning well, what happens is that you start losing your filter and the things that are actually in your brain come out,” he said.
Greenwald noted that while Harris was trying to campaign, Biden’s comments became the story of the hour. Reporters asked her about it everywhere she went.
Biden “clarified his comments,” she said on landing for a campaign stop, “but let me be clear — I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for.”
Now, Greenwald said, that cannot be true:
But if you actually believe [the Trump rally in Madison Square Garden] was a Neo-Nazi rally and that the supporters there were cheering for Nazi ideas, why wouldn’t you call them “garbage?” … That would flow from the premise. They’re not just saying Trump is a Nazi, they’re saying Trump’s movement is based on Neo-Nazi fascist ideas. So if you really believe that, why would Kamala Harris distance herself? She should be saying, yeah of course they’re garbage, they’re … Nazis, they’re fascists, but they’re afraid to follow through on their logical premises because they don’t actually believe the premises.
Trump Gets a Campaign Boost
CNN fretted that Biden undermined Harris and boosted Trump’s campaign. And, like Hillary Clinton’s imprudent “deplorables” comment about Trump supporters in 2016, the reaction to Biden’s remark “is gonna be huge because this is not some comedian saying something stupid and offensive,” pollster Frank Luntz said on the network’s News Central. After all, he said, “this is the president of the United States.”
Continued Luntz:
I can promise you that this is gonna drive Trump turnout, he’s doing it already. … This may be turning point for those final 3 percent who still need to be persuaded.
Trump went for a ride-along in a garbage truck, as did former primary opponent Vivek Ramaswamy.
Across X, Trump supporters reacted.
“My husband and I are heading to vote for Trump,” ran the line over video of two garbage cans heading down a driveway.
“My whole neighborhood is going to vote for Trump” said another over video of a garbage-can parade.
A third featured Make America Great Again hats on top of full garbage bags.
