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RealClear Politics Founder Says Biden’s ‘Garbage’ Comment ‘Couldn’t Come At A Worse Time’ For Harris

RealClear Politics' Tom Bevan [Screenshot/Fox News]

RealClearPolitics founder Tom Bevan said Wednesday that President Joe Biden calling supporters of Republican nominee Donald Trump “garbage” came at the worst time for Vice President Kamala Harris.

The president referred to Trump supporters as “garbage” during a Zoom call with the organization Voto Latino in response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at a Madison Square Garden rally Sunday. Bevan said on “America’s Newsroom” that these remarks are “alienating” swing-state voters in the final week before the election as they accuse Trump supporters of being both “garbage” and “Nazis.”

“It’s obviously not great for the Harris campaign,” Bevan said. “Just as Trump battled a couple of days of bad news cycles and this couldn’t have come at a worse time. I mean, it happened while she was speaking, while she was giving her closing argument this entire thing blew up, which begs the question what was Joe Biden even doing on a Zoom call at that point in time and again, it reinforces this notion, and we’ve seen these comments, Hillary Clinton’s ‘deplorables’ in 2016, President Obama cleaning the guns in 2012 [or] 2008, whenever that was. And it reinforces the idea that Democrats, while they spent a couple of days calling Trump supporters Nazis for being at this rally, that they’re alienating voters that they’re gonna need in these swing states here in the final week.”

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Biden made the remarks as the vice president gave her closing argument at the National Mall, where she warned Trump is an “unhinged” leader who would govern as a “fascist.” Democrats have repeatedly compared Trump to former Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the weeks leading up to the 2024 election, and have equated the former president’s large rally at Madison Square Garden to the 1939 Nazi rally at the arena.

Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff John Kelly alleged to The New York Times and The Atlantic on Oct. 22 that the former president “met the definition of a fascist,” believed Hitler “did some good things” and wanted generals like the Nazi leader had. The Trump campaign has denied all of these allegations.

Republican Florida Rep. Byron Donalds said Monday that the campaign opposed Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico and that the media is trying to “fear monger” Americans about Trump.

Former Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton notably said in 2016 that half of Trump supporters come from a “basket of deplorables,” accusing them of being “racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic [and] Islamophobic.”