Update (1045ET): Vice President Kamala Harris has responded to Biden's 'garbage' comment - saying "first of all, he clarified his comment" - referring to the ham-fisted attempt to suggest he was talking about one Trump supporter, Tony Hinchcliffe, and not what we all heard.
"I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for," Harris continued, before launching into word salad mode.
NEWS
— Yashar Ali 🐘 (@yashar) October 30, 2024
In a press gaggle, Vice-President Harris just addressed President Biden’s “garbage” comment.
She starts with noting that Biden clarified his comment, but goes onto say that she strongly disagrees with criticizing people based on who they vote for. pic.twitter.com/7N9lqtjTsx
Oh really?
h/t @mgEyesOpen
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Update (2147ET): President Trump has responded to Biden's comments, saying "Remember Hillary, she said deplorable... Garbage I think is worse."
🚨BREAKING: Trump responds to Biden calling his supporters “garbage”:
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 30, 2024
“Remember Hillary, she said deplorable... Garbage I think is worse.”
pic.twitter.com/Bgfn3Yr9bW
Does Harris agree?
I’ll take “Questions that the boot-licking regime media apparatchiks will never ask Harris” for $600! https://t.co/WPlbuii9sJ
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 30, 2024
And of course, the media is already spinning this - suggesting that Biden said 'Trump's supporter's' - singular, as if he was only referring to Hinchcliffe.
You do not hate the media enough.
— John LeFevre (@JohnLeFevre) October 30, 2024
They edit out Trump’s repudiation of white supremacists to pretend that he’s a Nazi sympathizer, and say that his comment about an auto industry bloodbath is a call to violence.
But they’ll cover for Biden by dismissing his words (which are on… https://t.co/p00CepkiUq pic.twitter.com/4PFDMHUEd6
Trump running mate JD Vance responded as well - calling out journalists trying to spin this:
"The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters." That's a direct quote. That's what Kamala Harris's boss said. This is how Politico decided to report it:
— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 30, 2024
Do @JonLemire @alexanderburns @politico have an ounce of integrity? Will they correct this obvious falsehood? pic.twitter.com/B1ktGVpLfz
Will the networks that obsessively covered a joke from a comedian at a Trump rally cover the fact that the Kamala Harris campaign is insulting half of the country? Will they even report honestly on this disgusting behavior from our present leadership?
— JD Vance (@JDVance) October 30, 2024
Biden’s verbal gaffe (if that’s what it was) is an absolute nightmare for Harris campaign.
— Chris Cillizza (@ChrisCillizza) October 30, 2024
This is getting more attention than Harris’ closing argument speech. https://t.co/WKYnn5HHMB
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You may have heard. During Donald Trump's 7-hour, celebrity-packed rally at Madison Square Garden, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage," in reference to the US territory's well known problem with overflowing landfills.
Chairman of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico Ángel Cintrón calls comedian Tony Hinchcliffe comments on Puerto Rico “unfortunate, ignorant and entirely reprehensible.”
— Cristina Corujo (@cristina_corujo) October 27, 2024
Hinchcliffe’s called the island a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.” pic.twitter.com/fsf3SpOlno
The left went into absolute hysterics,
Liberal comedian Jon Stewart was the voice of reason...
Props to @JonStewart for admitting he finds @TonyHinchcliffe funny.
— Johnny Woodard (@JohnnyWoodard) October 29, 2024
“I find that guy very funny. I’m sorry, I don’t know what to tell you. I mean, bringing him to a rally and having him not do roast jokes? That’d be like bringing Beyoncé to a rally and not … " pic.twitter.com/Y3ZFCnRtDb
And just when you thought the dust had settled, President Biden called 80 million Americans human garbage:
"Donald Trump has no character. He doesn't give a damn about the Latino community…just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage?…The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters," reports NBC News' Gabe Gutierrez.
WATCH: President Joe Biden: "The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump] supporters." pic.twitter.com/9teSUOytqC
— Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) October 30, 2024
Update: Then he lied about it!
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…
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) October 30, 2024
Even CNN isn't buying it...
Even CNN isn’t buying the apostrophe in the transcript pic.twitter.com/K39b1icBeb
— LB (@beyondreasdoubt) October 30, 2024
Meanwhile, Puerto Rican Trump supporters responded with a pro-Trump caravan...
TRUMP Caravan in Puerto Rico !!!
— LEXIT (@LexitMovement1) October 29, 2024
Let’s go!!! Puerto Ricans for Trump 🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/na74V7mLzZ
Puerto Rican politician Zoraida Buxó came out for Trump at a Tuesday rally...
BREAKING: Puerto Rico's Shadow U.S. Senator Zoraida Buxó just endorsed Trump on stage at the Allentown rally. Her entire speech was GOLDEN.
— George (@BehizyTweets) October 29, 2024
"We need change, and Kamala Harris and Tim Walz are NOT the option to bring about the kind of change that you need and want and certainly… pic.twitter.com/FcgOzAqoyL
Stay classy, Biden...
Joe Biden is calling half the country garbage while his running mate Kamala Harris is calling everyone who opposes her a fascist.
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) October 30, 2024
This is not the behavior of a winning campaign. This is the behavior of a campaign that hates the voters it knows will crush Harris in a week.
These people are sick and the media is the enemy of the people! https://t.co/S0HjCHNOOy
— Scott Fishman (@ScottFishman) October 30, 2024
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