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2024-10-30 Home Front: Politix
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White House descends into panic mode after another huge Biden gaffe - as aides frantically scramble to try to limit damage to Harris
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[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] The White House launched into panic mode on Tuesday night after Joe Biden branded Donald Trump supporters 'garbage'.
The president was speaking to a Latino advocacy group when he made the gaffe that drew instant comparisons to Hillary Clinton's infamous dismissal of Trump voters as 'deplorables' in 2016.
'Just the other day, a speaker at [Trump's] rally called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage,"' Biden, 81, told a Latino advocacy group.
'The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters, 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 a desperate attempt to clean up the president's mess, a White House spokesman issued a damage-control statement that added an apostrophe to the word 'supporter's' to imply that Biden was only referring to one person - comedian Tony Hinchcliffe who made a joke about Puerto Rico being an 'island of garbage.'
But Biden's gaffe sparked immediate fury from MAGA fans, with Trump himself saying he thought it was 'worse' than Clinton's now-infamous 2016 rant.
Biden said in a cleanup statement: 'Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage — which is the only word I can think of to describe it.
'His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don't reflect who we are as a nation.'
However, people on both sides of the aisle were either perplexed or outraged with the president's statement.
Trump seized on Biden's gaffe as news of it broke during the Republican candidate's rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, Tuesday night.
'Wow, that's what [Biden] says… garbage. I think it's worse [than deplorables],' Trump told thousands of fans.
'Please forgive him for he knoweth not what he say. Honestly he doesn't. And I'm convinced that he likes me more than he likes Kamala.'
Democrats immediately began distancing themselves from the president.
Trump's allies also quickly piled on criticism of Biden's comments. His running mate, JD Vance, made several tweets furious about the incident, writing: 'Kamala Harris and Joe Biden ought to be ashamed of themselves.'
He added: 'A mother mourning her son who died of a fentanyl overdose is not garbage. A truck driver who can't afford rising diesel prices is not garbage. A father who wants to afford groceries is not garbage.'
Trump's campaign social media account posted the video and commented: 'When Joe wakes up and wonders why his intern tweeted this — we will leave this here as a reminder.'
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