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Biden has undermined Harris four times during his campaign

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Biden has undermined Harris four times during his campaign

President Joe BidenTrump’s latest blunder, in which he labeled former President Donald Trump’s supporters as “trash” just before Election Day, could take the wind out of the air. Harris campaign is sailing again.

Biden appeared to steal the spotlight from Vice President Kamala Harris or undermine her campaign’s message several times during her 2024 campaign, prompting some pundits to take issue. theorize he is undermining her chances of winning the presidential election.

Here are four times Biden, intentionally or not, has upset the Harris campaign.

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1. Biden criticizes Trump supporters: ‘Garbage’

During a Zoom call for a Latin American voting event Tuesday night, Biden said, “And recently, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico ‘a floating island of trash.’ Well, let me tell you something… I don’t know, the Puerto Ricans I know in my home state of Delaware – they are good, decent, honorable people.

“The only trash I see floating around there are his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American. It completely contradicts everything we have done, everything we have been,” he said.

Biden’s disparaging comments came after a comedian joked at a recent Trump rally at Madison Square Garden, calling Puerto Rico “a floating island of trash.” Although Trump allies condemned the joke and the former president said he did not know the comedian, the incident caused a media storm and brought negative publicity to the Trump campaign with just days to go until the election.

But Biden’s latest blunder offers the Republican Party an opportunity to flip the “garbage” narrative and put the Harris campaign on the defensive in the final stages before the election, even as the vice president tries to outpace himself painting as a unity candidate.

“While I am running a campaign of positive solutions to save America, Kamala Harris is running a campaign of hate,” Trump said in a speech. Truth Social message in response to Biden’s derogatory comment. “All week she has compared her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history. Now Joe Biden is also calling our supporters “trash.” You can’t lead America if you don’t love the American people.”

Furthermore, the timing of Biden’s comments on Tuesday night stole the show from Harris, who delivered her closing argument before tens of thousands of voters in Washington, DC.

Seeking to play the unity card after a week of calling Trump a fascist and comparing him to Hitler, Harris told the crowd: “It’s time to stop pointing fingers. We need to stop pointing fingers and start locking arms.”

While she often turned to sharp attacks on Trump, labeling him “unstable” and a “petty tyrant” and accusing him of being “consumed by resentment,” the vice president claimed she wanted to put “country before party.” .

“This is her night,” Biden said in the hours leading up to Harris’ prime-time speech in Washington. But his ill-timed comments that same evening may have overshadowed his vice president’s closing speech to voters.

2. Biden Wears MAGA Hat: ‘Unity’

During an appearance at a fire station in Pennsylvania on September 11, Biden made a show of unity that may not have been what Harris’ campaign was looking for.

Biden spoke at the Shanksville Fire Department after visiting a 9/11 memorial in the state and spoke with a Republican voter and attracted a Trump 2024 hat to cheers from the crowd.

His unexpected move prompted a swift statement from the White House, explaining that the gesture was meant to embody the “bipartisan unity” that engulfed the country after the September 11 terrorist attacks that killed nearly 3,000 people.

But the image of Biden grinning in a MAGA hat set the Internet abuzz as Republicans trolled his attempt to don the garb of his vice president’s chief rival.

Biden’s viral moment also came just a day after Trump accused him of despising Harris during his presidential debate against the vice president.

“He got 14 million votes and they threw him out of office. And you know what? I’ll let you in on a little secret. He hates her. He can’t stand her,” Trump said, referring to Biden’s withdrawal from his re-election campaign after intense pressure from the Democratic Party to do so following his shaky performance at the first presidential debate.

As Harris took her boss’s place in a rapid climb to the top of the Democratic primaries, critics raised concerns about the quick change as Biden had secured more than 14 million votes during the Democratic primaries.

Social media users flocked to X to suggest Trump was right when he said Biden had been criticized for his vice president’s rise to power, bringing unwanted attention to the Harris campaign.

3. Biden holds a surprise press conference at the Harris rally

A last-minute appearance by Biden in the White House press conference room sparked internet speculation earlier this month. Biden’s comments in the press room upstaged his vice president because they came at the same time as a primetime rally Harris held in Michigan.

With the Harris campaign reportedly annoyed by the commander in chief’s action, Trump allies seized the opportunity to suggest that Biden “absolutely despises” his vice president.

“Kamala started speaking in Michigan at 2:04 EST. Two minutes later, Biden entered the White House briefing room for the first time since taking office. All networks then went from Kamala to Biden,” a right-wing pundit wrote in a message after to X.

Meanwhile, top Republicans, including the former Speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrichwent even further in his musings that Biden was deliberately undermining the Harris campaign.

Gingrich said that “as a historian and occasional novelist… he had a hunch that Joe and Jill looked at each other over the past two weeks and thought, ‘You know, wouldn’t it be a great legacy if Joe is the only man who ever beat Trump?’ I think the things he’s done to undermine her over the last ten days are pretty amazing.

“I don’t think it’s an accident,” the former House speaker concluded during a recent episode of Mark Halperin’s show 2Way tonight.

4. Biden praises DeSantis: ‘Great job’

When Hurricanes Helene and Milton hit Florida last month, Harris began a bitter feud with the state’s Republican governor, accusing him of playing “political games” during the natural disaster. However, Republicans were quick to note that her boss appeared to undermine her message when he effusively praised Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) for the “great job” he was doing in carrying out disaster relief efforts.

“The governor of Florida has cooperated. He said he got everything he needed. I spoke to him again yesterday,” Biden said.

His attempt to praise DeSantis as “cooperative” came just a day after Harris criticized the governor for allegedly refusing to take her calls. The Florida lawmaker said he was unaware the vice president had tried to call him.

“It’s selfish, and it’s about playing politics instead of doing the job you took an oath to do – which is putting the people first,” she complained.

Social media users quickly took to X to comment on the seemingly contradictory messages coming out of the Biden White House.

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“Biden is counter-programming Kamala Harris, saying Governor Ron DeSantis is doing a great job, just hours after Harris said he was doing a terrible job,” says one right-wing pundit. said.

“OMG. Biden contradicts Kamala and says DeSantis is doing a great job,” another user wrote.