WASHINGTON— More Hollywood artists, less Joe Biden, whom Democrats see as the undesirable one. The American president made a blunder by calling supporters of former President Donald Trump “garbage”, confirming that he has become an “obstacle” for the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, whose advisors are trying to put a cold shoulder to his blunders in the final stretch of his campaign for the White House.
The 81-year-old president entered a bazaar on Tuesday like an elephant. He insulted supporters of the Republican candidate during a video call with members of the NGO Voto Latino in which he wanted to criticize the comments of a comedian who participated in Trump’s rally in New York, considered racist by some people and criticized by Democrats in a attempt to take votes away from the Republicans.
At a Trump rally on Sunday, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe compared Puerto Rico to “a floating island of garbage,” making a joke of the problems that the so-called “Island of Enchantment” has faced in this matter.
“The only trash I see floating around are his followers,” said Biden, provoking repudiation in the Republican camp and alarm in the Democrat camp a few days before the elections.
The White House and the president himself tried to head off the crisis and later said that Biden was referring to “hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico launched by a Trump supporter.”
But the damage had already been done and the Republicans have not wasted the opportunity.
They demanded an apology
“Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hate America,” said Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt. “Kamala must answer for this shameful attack on tens of millions of Americans.”
“Terrible to say something like that,” Donald Trump insisted at a campaign event in Pennsylvania.
Republican Senator Marco Rubio demanded an apology from Joe Biden at the same event. “We are not trash. We are patriots who love America,” he said.
Harris was forced to go out to put out the fire on Wednesday. “I totally disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” he said.
Democrats clearly remember when Hillary Clinton – who competed with Trump for the presidency in 2016 – said that half of the Republican’s followers were “deplorable.”
Although the candidate repented in public, the derogatory expression was repeated again and again by Trump’s followers, who even used it for a television advertisement.
In the balance sheets after Clinton’s defeat, the insult was considered to have had a significant impact.
“Lock up” Trump
Last week, Joe Biden made Democrats break out in a cold sweat by declaring that Trump had to be “lock him up”an action that they have tried to carry out repeatedly with the escalation of trials against the Republican through the Department of Justice under Democratic control.
He then tried to rectify it and stated that he had meant “lock him up politically.”
Could her latest setback work against Kamala Harris in next Tuesday’s vote?
“It’s possible. (The election) is so close that anything can count,” said John Hansen, a political science professor at the University of Chicago.
Artists and not Biden
Harris replaced Biden as the Democratic candidate in July, after the president was expelled from the electoral race by the leadership of the Democratic Party, even though he had been elected in his party’s primaries.
Harris, who also has difficulty developing her ideas due to an apparent lack of information, seeks to distance herself from Biden and the decisions of the administration of which she is a part, because the president’s image has been worn down by age, something that the Democrats hid even the presidential debate between Trump and Biden for a long time.
Harris has been accompanied by artists who support the policies of the Democratic Party, which leans to the extreme left. Barack Obama and his wife Michelle also accompany her in seeking to retain the White House under the influence of the Obamas and the leadership of the party.
“Harris should obviously avoid many joint appearances with Biden until the elections are over. Biden is quite unpopular, he is rusty and he has been doing poorly,” summarizes Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia.
For Democrats, Biden has become a nuisance.
