{"id":2362004,"date":"2024-10-31T05:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-stein-is-silent-on-biden-and-harris-vilifying-trump-supporters\/"},"modified":"2024-10-31T05:44:53","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T09:44:53","slug":"josh-stein-is-silent-on-biden-and-harris-vilifying-trump-supporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/josh-stein-is-silent-on-biden-and-harris-vilifying-trump-supporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Stein Is Silent On Biden And Harris Vilifying Trump Supporters"},"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%2Fjosh-stein-is-silent-on-biden-and-harris-vilifying-trump-supporters%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=2362004&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>North Carolina Attorney General Josh\u2063 Stein, a Democratic candidate \u200dfor governor, has declined to comment on whether he agrees with President Joe Biden&#8217;s description of Trump supporters as &#8220;garbage&#8221; or Kamala Harris&#8217; association of them with Nazis. Despite multiple\u2064 requests for clarification, Stein&#8217;s campaign and official office have not responded, contrasting\u200c with other Democrats in swing states who have\u200c distanced themselves from such rhetoric. Stein recently campaigned with Harris, \u2064who has been criticized for \u200dincendiary comments regarding Trump and \u200dhis \u2063supporters, including a suggestion that they are akin to Nazis.\u200b Biden&#8217;s remarks \u200chave sparked controversy, leading to attempts by Harris to clarify\u200d his statements, while both have been accused \u2063of\u200c employing inflammatory language about their political\u200d opponents. Critics,\u2064 including Donald Trump, have condemned their rhetoric, emphasizing that it undermines respect for American citizens \u200bregardless of party affiliation. The\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmaker-says-biden-admin-using-mussels-as-shell-game-for-open-border-policies\/\" title=\"GOP lawmaker accuses Biden admin of using mussels as a diversion for open border policies.\">ongoing political discourse<\/a>\u200c has raised concerns about the \u2063divisive nature of current political campaigns.  <\/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<div>\n<p>North Carolina&rsquo;s Democrat Attorney General Josh Stein, who is running for governor, refuses to say whether he agrees with President Joe Biden that supporters of former President Donald Trump are &ldquo;garbage,&rdquo; or with Kamala Harris&rsquo; campaign that they are Nazis.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Stein&rsquo;s campaign nor his <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">official attorney general office<\/a> would respond to multiple requests for comment from The Federalist asking if he agreed with his party&rsquo;s leaders that millions of Americans &mdash; roughly half the country &mdash; are inhuman and akin to &ldquo;the most evil mass murderers in history&rdquo; (the words Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/4962153-trump-biden-garbage-comments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">used<\/a> to describe Harris&rsquo; attacks on him and his supporters).<\/p>\n<p>The North Carolina Democrat&rsquo;s refusal to distance himself from Biden&rsquo;s and Harris&rsquo; invective stands in stark contrast to other Democrats running statewide campaigns in swing states who have stood in opposition to the people their party has chosen to represent the American people.<\/p>\n<p>Stein campaigned with Harris today in Raleigh, thanking her for coming out to the state where half the voters, in her mind, are Nazis and fascists.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>It is unclear if Stein agrees, and he has not commented on his party&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/28\/corporate-media-incite-further-violence-by-calling-joyful-trump-rally-nazi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">divisive and dangerous messaging<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Just yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/29\/bidens-closing-argument-for-kamala-harris-all-of-trumps-voters-are-human-garbage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biden went on CNN to make a closing argument for Harris<\/a> just days before the election, calling millions whom he still represents as president &ldquo;garbage.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump&rsquo;s] supporters,&rdquo; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>While the White House <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/america\/status\/1851700629695000665\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">attempted to walk back the statement<\/a> and even released a bogus &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1851453439940649461?s=46&amp;t=h96LDkVmHt0kIdc_OlY_IA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">transcript<\/a>&rdquo; selectively punctuated to make it appear that Biden had not labeled Trump supporters &ldquo;garbage,&rdquo; video of Biden&rsquo;s statement quickly renders these narratives unbelievable.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Sometimes the Democrat elite tell us what they really think of us.  Hillary Clinton thinks we are &ldquo;deplorables&rdquo;.  Joe Biden thinks we are &ldquo;garbage.&rdquo;  Kamala Harris thinks we are so stupid as to believe her lies.  <\/p>\n<p>We deserve better.  Vote Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cwEBnGSbLj\">pic.twitter.com\/cwEBnGSbLj<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Tulsi Gabbard &#127802; (@TulsiGabbard) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TulsiGabbard\/status\/1851698106448122318?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Even Harris was forced to attempt to distance herself from Biden calling their constituents &ldquo;garbage,&rdquo; giving a mealy-mouthed defense of Biden saying he &ldquo;clarified his comments,&rdquo; but that she &ldquo;strongly disagree[s] with any criticism of people based on who they vote for.&rdquo; She further said that the work she does is &ldquo;about representing all the people whether they support me or not.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo; response is ironic though, because Biden&rsquo;s &ldquo;garbage&rdquo; comments come after the Harris campaign&rsquo;s own closing arguments <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/debunked-atlantic-hit-piece-gives-kamala-pretext-to-justify-political-violence-against-enemies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">saying<\/a>, with the help of a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/28\/corporate-media-incite-further-violence-by-calling-joyful-trump-rally-nazi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/expose-reveals-shadowy-left-wing-network-works-to-censor-deplatform-conservatives\/\" title=\"Expos\u00e9 Reveals Shadowy Left-Wing Network Works To Censor, Deplatform Conservatives\">corporate media information op<\/a><\/a>, that Trump and his supporters are Nazis and that Trump himself is a fascist.<\/p>\n<p>Just last week, Harris&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/24\/debunked-atlantic-hit-piece-gives-kamala-pretext-to-justify-political-violence-against-enemies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">directly tied<\/a>&nbsp;Adolf Hitler to Trump using debunked information to imply that Trump would murder millions and go after judges, journalists, and election officials as president.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is deeply troubling and incredibly dangerous that Donald Trump would invoke Adolf Hitler, the man who is responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews and hundreds of thousands of Americans,&rdquo; Harris said. &ldquo;All of this is further evidence for the American people of who Donald Trump really is. This is a window into who Donald Trump really is, from the people who know him best, from the people who worked with him side by side in the Oval Office and in the Situation Room.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Harris&rsquo; running mate, Gov. Tim Walz, D-Minn., likened a completely peaceful Trump rally at Madison Square Garden to a Nazi rally held there in the 1930s.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump&rsquo;s got this big rally going at Madison Square Garden. There&rsquo;s a direct parallel to a big rally that happened in the mid-1930s at Madison Square Garden,&rdquo; Walz&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1850600673131536696\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>. &ldquo;And don&rsquo;t think that he doesn&rsquo;t know for one second exactly what they&rsquo;re doing there.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Walz&rsquo;s statement not only likens Trump to a Nazi leader, but every attendee to supporters of Nazis. Walz&rsquo;s words also echo the sentiments of 2016 failed Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (whose husband, former President Bill Clinton, the Harris campaign has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmur.com\/article\/bill-clinton-new-hampshire-friday-november-1\/62764738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">trotted<\/a>&nbsp;out to rallies), who said that Trump and his supporters were&nbsp;&ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/video\/6363722086112\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reenacting<\/a>&nbsp;the Madison Square Garden rally in 1939.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The left-wing media, dedicated to election interference on behalf of the Harris campaign, lent its voice to the Nazi rally smears as well, with MSNBC actually&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/10\/28\/us-news\/shameful-msnbc-blasted-for-splicing-nazi-rally-clips-into-coverage-of-trumps-msg-rally\/?utm_campaign=nypost&amp;utm_medium=referral\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">airing footage of the 1939 rally during&nbsp;its coverage of the Trump rally<\/a>.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2024\/10\/28\/trumps-msg-rally-1939-msg-nazi-event\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Axios did its part<\/a>, too, saying that while the two rallies were different, they were actually very similar.<\/p>\n<p>Harris <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WISN12News\/status\/1851369310121287804?_nlid=AgV66W9RUZ&amp;_nhids=pLzmHBvOB9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">has not<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=46pc1G-b1QA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">walked back<\/a> her campaign&rsquo;s own dangerous rhetoric or condemned her friends in the media for their Nazi comparison.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate.&rdquo; Trump&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/1851481562744840576\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">posted<\/a>&nbsp;on social media. &ldquo;She has spent all week comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. Now, on top of everything, Joe Biden calls our supporters &lsquo;garbage.&rsquo; You can&rsquo;t lead America if you don&rsquo;t love the American People. Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have shown they are both unfit to be President of the United States.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I am proud to lead the biggest, broadest, and most important political coalition in American history,&rdquo; he continued. &ldquo;We are welcoming historic numbers of Latinos, African Americans, Asian Americans, and citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. It is my desire to be the President of all the people.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>As The Federalist <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/30\/harris-pulls-millions-in-ad-buys-from-north-carolina-days-before-the-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>, the Harris campaign does not appear to be doing well in North Carolina, as the campaign has pulled millions of dollars in ads out of the state as Harris drops in the polls and Republicans swamp Democrats in early voting.<\/p>\n<p>Some speculate the Harris campaign is turning its focus to neighboring Virginia in the home stretch. Virginia has been a Democrat stronghold statewide for years until the election of Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., in 2021, and the state has voted for a Democrat presidential candidate in every election since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Stein, however, is <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/polls\/governor\/2024\/north-carolina\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leading<\/a> his opponent Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, R-N.C., by a significant margin after scandals rocked Robinson&rsquo;s campaign.<\/p>\n<p><em>For more election news and updates, visit&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/electionbriefing.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>electionbriefing.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Breccan F. Thies is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. He previously covered education and culture issues for the Washington Examiner and Breitbart News. He holds a degree from the University of Virginia and is a 2022 Claremont Institute Publius Fellow. You can follow him on X: @BreccanFThies.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Josh Stein, NC&#8217;s Democrat AG and gubernatorial candidate, won&#8217;t say if he agrees with Biden&#8217;s &#8220;garbage&#8221; remark about Trump supporters or Harris&#8217; Nazi comparison. 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