Joe Biden’s “Garbage” Gaffe Gets Full-Throated Defense From White House, Blasted By Trump; VP Distances From POTUS In Campaign’s Final Days

deadline.com:

Kamala Harris is distancing herself today from Joe Biden’s “garbage” gaffe amid a very close election race, but the White House is insisting it’s all about the apostrophe. “Just to clarify, he was not calling Trump supporters garbage,” White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at the top of Wednesday briefing as the blast radius from Biden’s comment on a campaign Zoom call last night continued to grow and attract scorn from the likes of Donald Trump. “He does not view Trump supporters or anybody who supports Trump as garbage.” For a politician who has made verbal stumbles part of his brand, Biden may have stepped over his preferred successor’s final pitch to voters by getting caught in the ‘he said, he really said’ quicksand.

As the VP was wrapping up her well received speech on Tuesday night to around 70,000 supporters across the street from the White House, Biden was inside talking to VoteLatino.

On that call, the incumbent addressed the widely criticized derogatory remarks that Puerto Rico is a “floating island of garbage” by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at the October 27 MAGAfest in NYC’s Madison Square Garden. “They’re good, decent, honorable people,” a somewhat halting POTUS said of Puerto Ricans on Tuesday. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters …his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.” Biden quickly tried to walk his comment back and put out a clarification tweet on it.

As well the administration released a transcript that had the comment as “supporter’s,” not “supporters,” to spotlight Hinchcliffe.