Joe Biden might just have formally ended Kamala Harris’ campaign on Tuesday night.
The Democrats were trying to go all in attacking the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, demonizing it as a “Nazi rally” and criticizing what a comedian said there about Puerto Rico. But then Biden blew all that away in his criticism by calling Trump supporters “garbage,” as we reported earlier.
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Politico then tried to spin what he actually said but was caught because video was released showing what he actually said.
I think his team immediately knew that was a bad mistake — particularly when Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) threw Biden under the bus.
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Oh, my. The response from the guy who wasn’t picked. How delicious.
The White House knew this was a firestorm. They immediately released a transcript. Excuse me, they released multiple, different transcripts about what he said.
So they can’t even keep their own lies straight, first claiming plural possessive, then singular possessive. And neither of those is what he said, as the video was clear he was saying “supporters.” Plural, period. Two different sentences, two different thoughts.
Biden (or an intern) posted from his account clarifying (translate: lying) about what he said.
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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.
Yeah, no. Too late. You didn’t refer to what he said as garbage; you called Trump’s supporters garbage. And even the second thought was bad as well, equating “Latinos” with illegal aliens, which was who Trump was talking about. You just called half the nation, millions of Americans “garbage.” “That’s all I meant to say” doesn’t clean it up. This isn’t even the first time he’s demonized Trump supporters, previously calling them “extremists” in his ugly Philly speech.
No one is buying this excuse, not even former CNN guy Chris Cillizza. He called the gaffe “if that’s what it was” an “absolute nightmare” for Kamala Harris’ campaign because it was getting more attention than her closing argument.
Perhaps that was Biden’s point, as he seems to have a habit of usurping her events. Accidentally, of course.
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It even sounded like it was a bridge too far for CNN’s Kaitlan Collins.
If you’ve lost Cillizza and Collins, you just may have a problem.