{"id":2361575,"date":"2024-10-30T12:04:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-in-clean-up-mode-after-biden-garbage-gaffe-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T16:06:48","slug":"harris-in-clean-up-mode-after-biden-garbage-gaffe-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/harris-in-clean-up-mode-after-biden-garbage-gaffe-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris in clean-up mode after Biden &#8216;garbage&#8217; gaffe &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fharris-in-clean-up-mode-after-biden-garbage-gaffe-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2361575&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent development, Vice President Kamala\u200b Harris has sought \u2063to distance \u2062herself from \u200ca <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/troy-aikman-take-fire-for-take-the-dresses-off-comment-on-monday-night-football\/\" title=\"Troy Aikman Take Fire for \u201cTake the Dresses Off\u201d Comment on Monday Night Football\">controversial remark made<\/a> by President Joe Biden, who described\u200c comments by a comedian about Puerto Rico as &#8220;garbage.&#8221; This incident overshadowed Harris&#8217;s closing rally in Washington, D.C., where she \u200daimed to appeal\u200c to\u2062 independent and \u2064undecided\u200c voters, emphasizing the dangers of Donald \u200dTrump&#8217;s potential\u200d second term. In response to Biden&#8217;s remarks, which suggested he was criticizing Trump supporters, Harris \u2064clarified her stance\u200c against criticizing individuals based on their voting preferences, asserting her commitment to\u2064 representing all Americans. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/columbia-rabbi-issues-urgent-warning-to-jewish-students-as-campus-chaos-spirals-return-home-as-soon-as-possible\/\" title=\"Columbia Rabbi Urges Jewish Students: &#039;Head Home ASAP Amid Campus Chaos\">situation drew attention<\/a>\u2064 away from Harris&#8217;s campaign message of unity and bipartisanship, even as the\u200c White House attempted to clarify Biden&#8217;s comments to limit their impact. Harris expressed her belief that most people desire a leader who recognizes\u200c commonalities rather than divisions, reinforcing her commitment to inclusivity in her potential presidency.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Harris goes into clean-up mode for Biden &lsquo;garbage&rsquo; gaffe that trashed her closing message<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1868660\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Vice President<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> Kamala Harris<\/a> distanced herself from President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Joe Biden<\/a>&lsquo;s &ldquo;garbage&rdquo; insult that overshadowed her closing-night Ellipse rally and ticked off swarms of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"> former President Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s supporters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Harris told reporters Wednesday that Biden had &ldquo;clarified&rdquo; his remarks, which he made during a campaign call Tuesday night with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/latinos\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Latino<\/a> advocacy group Voto Latino. She said she spoke with him shortly afterward, but his statements &ldquo;didn&rsquo;t come up&rdquo; in their conversation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,&rdquo; Harris said Wednesday at Joint Base Andrews before another day on the campaign trail. &ldquo;As you heard in my speech last night and continuously throughout my career, I believe that the work that I do is about representing all the people, whether they support me or not.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;And as president of the United States, I will be a president for all Americans, whether you vote for me or not. That is my responsibility, and that&rsquo;s the kind of work that I&rsquo;ve done my entire career, and I take it very seriously,&rdquo; she continued.<\/p>\n<p>The uproar happened after Biden didn&rsquo;t attend Harris&rsquo;s large Washington, D.C., rally, which was outside of the White House, to make a pitch to independent, undecided, and Republican voters that Trump is too dangerous for a second term in office. Instead, Biden was on a video call condemning a comedian who joked that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/puerto-rico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Puerto Rico<\/a> is a &ldquo;floating island of garbage&rdquo; at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said the people of Puerto Rico are &ldquo;good, decent, honorable people,&rdquo; and &ldquo;the only garbage I see floating out there is his&nbsp;supporters &mdash; his&nbsp;&mdash; his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it&rsquo;s un-American.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The White House and Biden immediately issued comments clarifying the remarks, contending they were regarding the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe and not Trump supporters writ large. As part of its defense, the White House shared the official transcript of Biden&rsquo;s statement, underscoring the significance of an apostrophe, listing it as &ldquo;his&nbsp;supporter&rsquo;s,&rdquo; referring to Hinchliffe in the singular.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said on social media he was alluding to Hinchcliffe, and the comedian&rsquo;s quip at the rally does not &ldquo;reflect who we are as a nation.&rdquo; Regardless, the episode turned attention away from a Trump backer&rsquo;s insult to Peurto Rico and put the Harris campaign on defense a day after she planned to be riding hide from her Ellipse speech.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump&#8217;s supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage&mdash;which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That&#8217;s all I meant to say. The&hellip;<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoeBiden\/status\/1851436643498037614?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Harris downplayed the possibility that Biden&rsquo;s comments countered her message of unity and bipartisanship that she underscored during her <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">closing argument address<\/a> at the Ellipse, the national park south of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/presidential\/3202355\/paths-victory-harris-trump-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\"><strong>PATHS TO VICTORY FOR HARRIS AND TRUMP IN 2024<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I respect the challenges that people face,&rdquo; she said. &ldquo;I respect the fact that we all have so much more in common than what separates us, and that most people want a president that understands that, that gets that, and approaches their role of leadership that way. I&rsquo;ve been very clear from my earliest years as a prosecutor, I never asked anyone, are they a Democrat or Republican? The only thing I ask folks is, are you okay? And that&rsquo;s the kind of president I will be.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo;s running mate, Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tim-walz\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Tim Walz<\/a> (D-MN), also tried to clean up Biden&rsquo;s remarks Wednesday, repeating Harris&rsquo;s own statement during an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abc-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">ABC<\/a>&lsquo;s <em>Good Morning America<\/em> and &nbsp;<em>CBS&nbsp;Mornings<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The president has clarified his&nbsp;remarks,&rdquo; Walz told ABC. &ldquo;Let&rsquo;s be very clear, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/hunter-biden-defector-emails-pipeline-to-obama-admin-seen-as-currency\/\" title=\"Hunter Biden Defector Emails: &#039;Pipeline&#039; to Obama Admin Seen as &#039;Currency&#039;\">vice president<\/a> and I have&nbsp;made it absolutely clear that we&nbsp;want everyone as&nbsp;a&nbsp;part of this.&nbsp;Donald Trump&rsquo;s divisive rhetoric&nbsp;is what needs to end.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans quickly seized on Biden&rsquo;s comments, reminiscent of 2016 Democratic presidential nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Hillary Clinton <\/a>calling half of Trump&rsquo;s supporters &ldquo;a basket of deplorable.&rdquo; Puerto Rican voters are a critical voting bloc in the battleground state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, whose 19 electoral votes could decide next week&rsquo;s election.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1868660\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1868660\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris distances herself from Biden&#8217;s &#8220;garbage&#8221; remark that overshadowed her rally<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2361576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Kamala-Harris-biden-gaffe.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[3620,44018,17568,4021,32076],"class_list":["post-2361575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-biden","tag-clean-up-mode","tag-gaffe","tag-harris","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Kamala-Harris-biden-gaffe.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2361575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2361575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2361576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2361575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2361575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2361575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}