{"id":2363751,"date":"2024-11-04T10:18:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-closes-election-with-urge-to-physically-smack-gop-voters\/"},"modified":"2024-11-04T10:18:34","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:18:34","slug":"biden-closes-election-with-urge-to-physically-smack-gop-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-closes-election-with-urge-to-physically-smack-gop-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Closes Election With Urge To Physically &#8216;Smack&#8217; GOP Voters"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fbiden-closes-election-with-urge-to-physically-smack-gop-voters%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=2363751&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\u200d the\u2064 lead-up to the 2024 elections, \u200cPresident Joe Biden sparked significant controversy by referring to supporters of the Republican party as\u2063 \u201cgarbage.\u201d This remark\u2063 occurred during an event where he condemned what he labeled as a push by Republicans\u200b for tax cuts for the\u2062 wealthy, expressing\u200b his \u2062disdain for \u201cmacho guys\u201d\u200c who support this agenda. His comments about wanting to &#8220;smack&#8221; such individuals \u200bfurther inflamed\u200d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/inside-the-nras-strategy-to-escape-disaster\/\" title=\"Inside the NRA\u2019s Strategy to Escape Disaster\">political atmosphere<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d reaction\u200d from former\u2063 President\u2063 Donald Trump was swift. At a rally, \u200dhe mocked Biden, highlighting the president&#8217;s remarks about Republicans in \u200ba comedic manner. Trump even incorporated a\u200c visual element \u200bby \u200darriving at a Wisconsin event in a garbage truck, joking that it was in honor of Biden \u200dand Vice President Kamala Harris. He condemned Biden&#8217;s\u200b comments and insisted that &#8220;250 million Americans are not garbage,&#8221; aiming to rally his \u200bsupporters against the perceived insults from Biden.<\/p>\n<p>In a parallel development, it was reported that the White House\u2064 staff altered the official transcript of Biden&#8217;s &#8220;garbage&#8221; comments, raising concerns about a potential violation of the Presidential Records Act. This has led to further scrutiny of the administration&#8217;s\u200c handling \u2063of public statements and the way they represent\u200d the President&#8217;s\u200d views.<\/p>\n<p>The entire \u200bincident\u200d has intensified partisan divisions as \u200dboth Biden&#8217;s\u2063 comments and Trump&#8217;s \u2062responses continue to\u2064 fuel \u2062the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">ongoing political discourse leading<\/a> into the elections.  <\/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>President Joe Biden followed his condemnation of half the country as &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/30\/calling-republicans-deplorable-was-a-scandal-eight-years-ago-now-its-the-democrats-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">garbage<\/a>&rdquo; last week by publicly fantasizing about giving men who vote for Republicans a &ldquo;smack.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>At his final campaign stop for Vice President Kamala Harris on Saturday, Biden told Pennsylvania voters he&rsquo;d like to hit &ldquo;macho guys.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;There&rsquo;s one more thing Trump and his Republican friends want to do. They want to have a giant tax cut for the wealthy,&rdquo; Biden said. &ldquo;Now, I know some of you guys are tempted to think it&rsquo;s macho guys.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I tell you what, man, when I was in Scranton, we used to have a little trouble going down the plot once in a while,&rdquo; Biden added. &ldquo;These are the kinds of guys you&rsquo;d like to smack in the -ss,&rdquo; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump mocked the lame-duck commander-in-chief at a North Carolina event later Saturday night.<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>Biden on Republicans: &ldquo;these are the kind of guys you&#8217;d like to smack in the ass.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 1 week we were called Nazis, garbage, weak, and dumb and now the President is sharing his fantasy about using physical force.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aUyUW16lQ6\">pic.twitter.com\/aUyUW16lQ6<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/libsoftiktok\/status\/1852869134184555000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&rsquo;t even know, is he still around?&rdquo; Trump asked a rally crowd, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/biden-trump-slap-unfiltered-harris-scranton-aaac60ee090e2c4b9a6862f9c88b2467\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according <\/a>to the Associated Press. <\/p>\n<p>Trump also taunted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/history-of-white-house-transitions-and-inauguration\/\" title=\"History of White House transitions and inauguration\">outgoing president<\/a> last week after Biden called the Republican nominee&rsquo;s supporters&rsquo; &ldquo;garbage&rdquo; as Harris delivered her final arguments on the National Mall. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Donald Trump has no character,&rdquo; Biden said on a call with Latino activists. The president referenced a comedian who joked that Puerto Rico was an island of garbage at Trump&rsquo;s rally in Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,&rdquo; Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/10\/30\/calling-republicans-deplorable-was-a-scandal-eight-years-ago-now-its-the-democrats-platform\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded the next day by riding a garbage truck into a Wisconsin rally Wednesday night. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;How do you like my garbage truck?&rdquo; Trump asked reporters gathered just outside the venue. &ldquo;This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<div lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\n<p>President Trump expertly TROLLS Democrats after getting picked up by a Garbage Truck in Green Bay:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How do you like my garbage truck? This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  DJT is a national treasure. &#128514;&#128514; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/V2se9eOT7u\">pic.twitter.com\/V2se9eOT7u<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&mdash; Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliekirk11\/status\/1851755075607367903?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Trump continued to deliver his speech while dressed as a garbage man.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;250 million Americans are not garbage,&rdquo; Trump told his supporters.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p>The White House press staff went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/11\/01\/biden-harris-white-house-falsifies-transcript-to-cover-up-bidens-garbage-slur-against-gop-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fraudulently edit<\/a> an official transcript of the president&rsquo;s &ldquo;garbage&rdquo; remark in a potential violation of the Presidential Records Act. Staffers &ldquo;rendered the quote with an apostrophe, reading &lsquo;supporter&rsquo;s&rsquo; rather than &lsquo;supporters,&#8217;&rdquo; the AP reported. <\/p>\n<p>The deceptive edit, however, provoked ethical concerns among the official stenographers. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;If there is a difference in interpretation, the Press Office may choose to withhold the transcript but cannot edit it independently,&rdquo; a White House supervisor reportedly wrote in an email. &ldquo;Our Stenography Office transcript &mdash; released to our distro, which includes the National Archives &mdash; is now different than the version edited and released to the public by Press Office staff.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>House Republicans wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/release\/stefanik-comer-investigate-white-houses-revision-of-bidens-garbage-remarks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter <\/a>to the White House Wednesday over the transcript edit. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;White House staff cannot rewrite the words of the President of the United States to be more politically on message,&rdquo; wrote Reps. James Comer of Kentucky and Elise Stefanik of New York. &ldquo;Though President Biden&rsquo;s relevance continues to diminish, his words continue to matter, even as they become increasingly divisive and erratic.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist and the author of Social Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Biden condemned half the country as &#8220;garbage&#8221; and fantasized about hitting Republican voters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":2363752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Biden.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3620,35835,34059,37856,37408],"class_list":["post-2363751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biden","tag-campaign-strategy","tag-election-2024","tag-gop-voters","tag-political-rhetoric"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/Biden.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363751","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2363751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2363756,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2363751\/revisions\/2363756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2363751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2363751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2363751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}