Independents react negatively to Biden’s ‘garbage’ comments in real time

A Fox News absorption radical of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents gave their real-time reactions to President Biden’s caller comments seeming to telephone supporters of erstwhile President Trump "garbage," with the second 2 groups registering a powerfully antagonistic content of the president’s words.

The groups precocious participated successful a dial trial portion watching Biden’s arguable statements that helium made during a virtual Harris run telephone with Latino voters connected Tuesday evening. The trial allowed viewers to input their reactions portion watching the infinitesimal successful existent time. These reactions showed up arsenic a moving enactment connected a graph indicating whether they were reacting positively, neutrally, oregon negatively to Biden’s words arsenic helium spoke them.

The trial revealed that, portion Democratic participants remained somewhat affirmative astir Biden’s anti-Trump statements – including erstwhile helium appeared to telephone Trump supporters "garbage" – Republicans and Independents sharply dipped into antagonistic reactions arsenic helium made them.

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President Biden referred to Trump supporters arsenic "garbage" during a virtual Harris run call. (Screenshot/Voto Latino)

Though Republican watchers’ reactions appeared to beryllium the astir negative, with the reddish enactment representing them veering down good beneath the neutral enactment for astir of Biden’s 49-second statement, the yellowish enactment representing independents besides dipped debased into antagonistic effect for the bulk of the clip arsenic well. 

While ne'er registering arsenic intensely antagonistic arsenic the reddish line, the yellowish enactment sharply dropped disconnected the neutral level arsenic Biden declared that Trump "doesn’t attraction astir the Latino community" and that he’s a "failed businessman."

The Independent enactment stayed debased until it concisely ticked up (while inactive successful the negative) erstwhile Biden mentioned Trump wanting to extremity "birthright citizenship."

Once Biden appeared to say, "The lone garbage I spot floating retired determination is his supporters," the yellowish enactment took a notable downturn again, getting adjacent to the Republican absorption enactment that was astatine its lowest point.

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Meanwhile, the bluish Democrat enactment represented the inverse absorption to some Independents and Republicans, traveling good supra the neutral absorption enactment and gradually climbing arsenic Biden made the "garbage" remarks.

The White House, connected Wednesday, released a transcript of Biden’s remarks. 

The authoritative White House transcript says, "The lone garbage I spot floating retired determination is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American." 

White House lawman property caput Andrew Bates sought to clarify Biden’s remarks, saying, "The president referred to the hateful rhetoric astatine the Madison Square Garden rally arsenic ‘garbage.’"

– Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.