President Biden made a series of gaffes, mistakes and astonishing comments portion Vice President Kamala Harris rallied nationalist enactment for her tally for the Oval Office.
Biden campaigned for and endorsed Harris this cycle, but amid the astir 100-day Harris-Walz campaign, helium besides made a bid of mistakes that apt wounded her chances of winning the election. Biden initially ran for re-election this twelvemonth earlier dropping retired successful July arsenic concerns mounted implicit his intelligence acuity and age.
Fox News Digital examined the past astir 100 days of the run rhythm and compiled the apical missteps and astonishing comments that became fodder for the Trump run earlier the 45th president sailed to re-election connected Tuesday.
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Biden calls Trump supporters ‘garbage’
"Donald Trump has nary character. He doesn’t springiness a damn astir the Latino community," Biden said during a run telephone astatine the White House. "Just the different day, a talker astatine his rally called Puerto Rico a floating land of garbage.
"The lone garbage I spot floating retired determination is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American."
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Biden’s comments acceptable disconnected a lightning tempest of criticism from Republicans nationwide, with immoderate comparing it to erstwhile Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s "basket of deplorables" remark during a fundraiser during her failed 2016 campaign, which was viewed arsenic apt undermining her campaign.
The White House attempted to backtrack connected Biden’s comment, saying it was successful notation specifically to remarks made during Trump’s monolithic Madison Square Garden rally. Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, host of the fashionable podcast "Kill Tony," sparked backlash aft helium cracked a gag hours up of Trump taking the signifier astatine Madison Square Garden that Puerto Rico is simply a "floating land of garbage."
"Earlier contiguous I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporters astatine his Madison Square Garden rally arsenic garbage — which is the lone connection I tin deliberation of to picture it," Biden wrote successful a station connected X. "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's each I meant to say. The comments astatine that rally don't bespeak who we are arsenic a nation."
President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. (Aaron Schwartz/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Despite efforts to locomotion the comments back, Trump and his run leaned into the derogatory comment, with Trump donning a agleam orangish sanitization vest and climbing into a "MAGA"-decorated trash motortruck during a Wisconsin run event.
Biden wears a Trump chapeau portion speaking to voters
Biden went viral connected societal media successful September, erstwhile helium visited Pennsylvania voters astatine the Shanksville Fire Station connected the day of 9/11, aft participating successful a wreath-laying ceremonial astatine the town's memorial tract for United Airlines Flight 93.
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While successful the firehouse, helium spoke with a Trump protagonist and decided to enactment the man's pro-Trump chapeau connected his head.
"BREAKING: Kamala did truthful atrocious successful past night's debate, Joe Biden conscionable enactment connected a Trump hat," the Trump warfare country said connected X of the footage.
"At this constituent adjacent Joe Biden is voting for President Trump," State of Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis quipped online.
"Joe Biden conscionable enactment connected a Trump 2024 run cap. This is not a joke… helium truly did," broadcaster Piers Morgan wrote, with an emoji of a monkey covering its eyes.
The White House besides confirmed the footage was existent and defended the bizarre country arsenic Biden spreading a connection of unity to voters.
Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a run rally astatine the Williams Arena astatine Minges Coliseum connected the field of East Carolina University connected Oct. 13, 2024 successful Greenville, North Carolina. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
"At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke astir the country's bipartisan unity aft 9/11 and said we needed to get backmost to that. As a gesture, helium gave a chapeau to a Trump protagonist who past said that successful the aforesaid spirit, POTUS should enactment connected his Trump cap. He concisely wore it," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates wrote connected X.
In different unexpected wardrobe choice, archetypal woman Jill Biden acceptable societal media ablaze earlier this week erstwhile she wore red-colored pantsuit to ballot connected Tuesday. Red is the colour of the Republican Party, sparking commenters to gag that possibly Jill Biden voted for Trump arsenic a protestation to Democrats calling connected President Biden to exit the statesmanlike contention implicit the summer.
Biden's astonishing remarks connected a Republican governor's handling of hurricane
As 2 hurricanes ripped done the southeast U.S. successful October, Harris slammed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis' effect to the earthy disasters, with her run claiming his bureau denied telephone calls from the Harris team.
"People are successful hopeless request of enactment close present and playing governmental games with this moment, successful these situation situations, these are the tallness of exigency situations, it's conscionable utterly irresponsible, and it is selfish," Harris told reporters of DeSantis.
Biden declared a time aft Harris' remarks that the GOP politician was doing a "great job" and thanked him for his efforts to assistance Floridians.
"The politician of Florida has been cooperative. He said he’s gotten each that helium needs. I talked to him again yesterday, and I said – nary – you're doing a large job, it's each being done well, and we convey you for it," Biden said. "There was a unsmooth commencement successful immoderate places, but each governor, each politician – from Florida to North Carolina – has been afloat cooperative and supportive."
DeSantis aboriginal changeable backmost astatine Harris' claims that helium was playing authorities with the storm, accusing her of being the existent culprit of engaging successful governmental gamesmanship.
"I’ve worked connected these hurricanes nether some President Trump and President Biden. Neither of them ever tried to politicize it. She has ne'er called connected immoderate of the storms we’ve had since she’s been vice president until seemingly now," DeSantis said. "Why, each of the sudden, is she trying to parachute successful and inject herself erstwhile she’s ne'er shown immoderate involvement successful the past? We cognize it’s due to the fact that of politics, we cognize it’s due to the fact that of her campaign."
"Harris is not adjacent successful the concatenation of command. She has nary relation successful this," DeSantis added. "The thought that I should be, like, worrying astir her erstwhile I’m focused connected the task astatine manus is conscionable rather frankly absurd."
Biden bites a babe astatine a Halloween party
In different astonishing incidental during the predetermination cycle, Biden was caught connected camera playfully biting babies dressed successful Halloween costumes astatine a trick-or-treat lawsuit past month. Biden playfully biting the babies unfolded arsenic Trump campaigned successful Wisconsin portion dressed successful the sanitization vest successful rebuke of Biden's "garbage" comment.
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TRUMP VOWS TO LEAD ‘GOLDEN AGE OF AMERICA’ IN VICTORY SPEECH: 'FIX EVERYTHING'
Former President Donald Trump arrives to talk during an predetermination nighttime lawsuit astatine the Palm Beach Convention Center connected Nov. 6, 2024 successful West Palm Beach, Florida. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Trump secured the monolithic predetermination triumph aboriginal Wednesday morning, aft cardinal battleground states specified arsenic Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Georgia voted successful his favor.
"Every citizen, I volition combat for you, for your household and your future. Every azygous day, I volition beryllium warring for you. And with each enactment successful my body, I volition not remainder until we person delivered the strong, harmless and prosperous America that our children merit and that you deserve. This volition genuinely beryllium the aureate property of America. That's what we person to have. This is simply a magnificent triumph for the American radical that volition let america to marque America large again," Trump said during his triumph code successful the dormant of night.
President Biden departs the Rose Garden aft speaking connected the 2024 predetermination successful the Rose Garden connected Nov. 7, 2024 successful Washington, D.C. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
Harris held an predetermination ticker enactment astatine her alma mater, Howard University, successful Washington, D.C., but did not publically articulation her supporters arsenic the predetermination results began trending successful Trump's direction. Biden spent the nighttime of the predetermination astatine the White House, skipping the party.
Fox News Digital's Alec Schemmel and Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.