Harris’s Head-Scratching Surrogates – 10.31.24
Are Kamala Harris’s surrogates trying to sabotage her campaign?
First, Joe Biden called over half the country garbage.
KJP was asked about this “gaffe.” Read her explanation at the bottom of this post!
Then Bill Clinton admitted Trump had a better economy than Biden.
Not to be outdone, Mark Cuban decided to insult women who support Trump.
Well, one thing is for certain– Dems are telling us how they really feel!
Question is whether or not voters will choose to believe them this time.
Read the White House transcript on Biden’s garbage comment here:
Q Yeah, can you just address the president’s comments yesterday referring to a Trump supporter as “garbage”? And I know he’s tried to clarify that he was —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah.
Q — trying to talk about what the person said. But, one, I guess I’m — I want to know, does he think less of Americans who support Trump than he does of those who do not? And, two, why is he using that kind of rhetoric? How is that presidential?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So — so, a couple of things — couple of things. So, just to clarify, he was not calling Trump supporters garbage, which is why he put out — this is why he wanted to make sure that we put out a statement that clarified what he meant and what he was trying to say. And so, just want to make that very clear for folks who are watching.
And I’ll — and I just want to read that out to folks. So, he was — regarding to the comedian, and I quote, “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” — the comments — “at the rally don’t reflect who we are as a nation.”
And to your question — your other question that you asked, no he does not view Trump supporters or anybody who supports Trump as garbage. That is not what he views.
The president has said this for more than three years now. He has said multiple times that he is a president for all. It doesn’t matter if you live in a red state. It doesn’t matter if you live in a blue state. He has said this himself. I have said it on his behalf.
He believes that he’s a — a president for all, and it doesn’t matter who you voted for. It doesn’t matter if you voted for him or not. He’s a president for all, but hateful rhetoric — hateful rhetoric that he hears — and this is something that we’ve done many times from here — we will call that out. We will call that 1out. And that’s what the president said.
Q Is he — does he have any regret for not being more — his — his language was not specific. It came out — if you were listening to that video, it —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I was in the room. Aamer, I was in the room.Q I — I’m (inaudible) —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I — I —
Q — listening on —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m just telling you that I was in the room.
Q If you were listen- — but if you were any sort of normal person listening to that video or looking at the clips online, you could come to the conclusion that he was calling, at minimum, this one man “garbage” or not — if not all Trump supporters “garbage.”
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Well — I —
Q Does he — should he be more —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Okay —
Q Does he regret not being more precise with this language?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Well, wait —
Q And does he — does he al- —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: (Laughs.) I’m waiting for the question to end, but go —
Q Well, I —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: — ahead. Keep going. Keep going.
Q And the second — I apologize. And the —
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah, no, no. Go ahead.
Q — second part of that is, does he — does he any regret for how this has shadowed Vice President Harris’s campaign?
MS. JEAN-PIERRE: So, a couple of things there, because there’s — there’s a lot that you laid out.
So, look, the president wanted to clarify because he understood that what he may have said was being — he understood that what he was saying was being taken out of context, so he wanted to be very, very clear about what he was trying to say. And I just read that out mult- — once over. You all have the — have the — have the — the tweet, or, you know, the statement that’s on X. If you want to read it right now, feel free to do so.
And he was talking about hateful rhetoric. And we’ve called out hateful rhetoric from here. We have.
Obviously, this hateful rhetic — rhetoric was about a particular co- — community — a community that — the Puerto Rican community; they are Americans. They — this is somebody — this is a community that he respects, and he wanted to make sure he called that out.
And hateful rhetoric should be called out. It should be.
And — but at the same time, the president is a president for all; he will continue to do so. He will continue to serve for everyone.
I — I want to step back for a second, because I think this is really important. Yesterday, we went to Baltimore, Maryland. He announced a $3 billion project in Baltimore. That $3 billion project is going to help 27 states. Eleven of those states are — are — have Republican governors. This is what this president cares about, making sure that people who are in need, get the need — get — get the assistance that they need. Right? They — we talked about — he talked about port — port infrastructure, and we went to Baltimore. Obviously, we know what happened a couple of months ago with one of the bridges there: $147 million for — for Maryland in — in particular.
But just think about it: 27 states; 11 states are Republican governors.
And this is — we’re talking about the Inflation Reduction Act, which only Democrats voted for. Republicans didn’t vote for that. Republicans tried to repeal that. Let’s not forget what the speaker said yesterday about ACA — wanted to repeal ACA. He wanted to repeal ACA, which would hurt millions of Americans.
And so, that’s what the president wants to focus on, which is why he wanted to make sure he clarified what he said.
But if there is hateful rhetoric that is being said about communities, Americans, communities across this country, he’s going to speak out about it. It’s not the first time that he’s done so.
