‘Trying to Sabotage’: Joe Biden Calls Trump Supporters ‘Garbage,’ Fuels Accusation He’s Trying to Derail Kamala Harris’ Campaign Amid Rumors of a Growing Rift

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. (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, decent, honorable people. “The only ‘garbage’ I see floating out there is his supporters,” he said. A mother mourning her son who died of a fentanyl overdose is not garbage. A truck driver who can't afford rising diesel prices is not garbage. A father who wants to afford groceries...