President Joe Biden on Monday speaks to the media at the White House in Washington, D.C. The White House on Thursday said that the president met with his physician in the days following his first debate performance against former President Donald Trump. Less Photo by ANDREW HARNIK/GETTY IMAGES
WASHINGTON D.C. (WSAU) – While Vice President Harris was making her final remarks to voters in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night, President Joe Biden made a statement about his predecessors supporters that could impact how voters vote on election day.
According to the New York Post, Biden referred to former President Trump’s voters as “garbage” during a Zoom interview with Voto Latino while discussing a Puerto Rico joke made by popular comedian Tony Hinchcliffe during Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden over the weekend, saying, “The only garbage I see floating out there are his supporters. His demonization of people is unconscionable and un-American.”
The White House released a statement regarding the comment, hoping to walk it back as Harris continues to attempt to win over some of the moderate voters that the former President has become popular with, saying, “The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage,” and changed the wording of his comment in the White House transcript to say, “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
Trump was speaking to a crowd of supporters at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, when the comment was made and addressed it after Florida Senator Marco Rubio informed the crowd that it had happened, saying, “You remember Hillary, she said deplorable, then she said irredeemable, right, but she said deplorable; that didn’t work out. But I think garbage is worse, right?”
Vice President Harris spoke about the comment while taking questions from media members on Wednesday morning, saying, “I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for.” Harris did not state if she regretted her recent claims that those who support the former president are akin to “Nazis.”
As it currently stands, Harris’ lead nationally has shrunk in recent weeks, as the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll has her ahead of Trump by just one percentage point after she led by three percentage points last week, while the latest Economist forecast has Trump at a 55% chance of winning the White House, which marks his largest lead in the forecast since August 3rd.
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