“Anxious” Democrats are attempting to distance themselves and Vice President Kamala Harris’s campaign from President Joe Biden’s controversial comment referring to supporters of former President Donald Trump as “garbage,” Axios reported.
After Biden said, “The only garbage I see floating out there are his supporters” during a virtual interview with Voto Latino that was meant to help Harris, the White House edited his words to spin the remark to refer to Trump’s “supporter’s” rhetoric:
“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,” Biden said in a follow-up post on X, referring to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about the island of Puerto Rico being “garbage” at Trump’s recent Madison Square Garden rally.
“That’s all I meant to say. The comments at that rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation,” Biden wrote:
After the wave of backlash from Republicans, some elected Democrats have admitted to Axios that Biden’s comments were bad for Harris’s campaign.