President Joe Biden overshadowed his vice president Kamala Harris’ closing campaign plea by calling Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage” in an astonishing outburst.
The 81-year-old commander-in-chief’s bombshell gaffe evoked memories of Hillary Clinton calling Trump voters “deplorables” in 2016, which contributed to her loss.
It also came as Harris was hoping to capture the nation’s full attention with a carefully planned rally in front of the White House for 75,000 Democrats.
Biden was giving his response after a comedian at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday compared Puerto Rico to a ‘floating island of garbage.’
He said: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his (Trump’s) supporters.”
The president made the comment on a Zoom call organized by the advocacy group Voto Latino.
He said: “And just the other day, a speaker at his (Trump’s rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ Well, let me tell you something. I don’t, I, I don’t know the Puerto Rican that, that I know, or a Puerto Rico,. Where I’m from, in my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent, honorable people.
“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters, His, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s totally contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”
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Author: Marty Kaufmann
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