‘Kamala Needs to Disavow This’: Kamala Harris Was Distancing Herself from Joe Biden Even Before His ‘Garbage’ Comment, Reports Show

On Monday, The New York Times reported Democratic presidential hopeful Kamala Harris was distancing herself from President Joe Biden in the waning days before the election. On Tuesday, the vice president showed why that may have been a wise decision. She spent Wednesday morning cleaning up Biden’s comments disparaging Donald Trump supporters. U.S. President Joe Biden listens during a briefing on Hurricane Milton in the South Court Auditorium in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House campus on October 09, 2024 in Washington, DC. Biden and U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, who participated virtually, heard from officials from several organizations including the Coast Guard, the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center. Hurricane Milton, which currently is a category four hurricane is expected to make landfall on the Gulf Coast side of Florida early Thursday. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images) “And just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage,’ ” Biden told reporters Tuesday. “Well, let me tell you something. I don’t– I– I don’t know the Puerto Rican that– that I know– or a Puerto Rico, where I’m from– in my home state of Delaware, they’re good,...