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Biden's 'Trump Voters Are Garbage' Remarks Led to Scores of Campaign Calls Being Canceled

Matt Vespa
Matt Vespa  |  November 02, 2024 6:00 AM

Joe Biden is stumbling in the final months of his failed presidency. To some extent, many saw this coming—he’s been the king of gaffes his entire career in public life. Now, he’s forced to damage control, and so does Kamala Harris. No doubt, the vice president’s advisers flipped over tables when Biden said that Trump supporters were garbage. He also said this during Kamala’s DC rally last week, which should have been an earned media moment. Instead, it’s all about Biden and his remarks.

It's a public relations disaster, and one that reconfirmed Democrats as snobby and condescending. Right now, it essentially led to Biden being canceled by the Democrats. He was slated to be on a few campagna calls—these got nixed: 

The damage control has also been laughable and ineffective. The garbage remarks were in response to an insulted comedian who made a joke about Puerto Rico at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. It wasn’t funny and didn’t elicit many laughs, but Tony Hinchcliffe, who made the joke, isn’t as powerful as Joe Biden. He’s not the president, and to suggest otherwise is insane. It’s also an indirect swipe at Biden—only a weak president would be lumped into a shoddy talking point like this: a comedian’s word is more powerful than the president's.