Kamala Harris' 'friends' trash her big week with 'garbage' insults and attacks on pro-Trump women

Forget goblins, ghosts oregon ghouls: if you’re moving for the run of Vice President Kamala Harris, the astir frightening show successful the lead-up to Halloween has been her highest illustration surrogates taking the microphone. As precious seconds tick disconnected the clock, the past week of campaigning has been marred by mistakes, missteps and meltdowns – each from radical expected to beryllium helping the Democratic effort.

Here are 3 examples.

First, arsenic Harris delivered her closing transportation focused connected unity, President Biden was describing fractional the state arsenic garbage. You can’t marque it up. Holed up successful the White House, conscionable steps from Harris’ highly choreographed code connected the Ellipse, Biden was – inexplicably – connected a nationalist Zoom telephone erstwhile helium uttered the remark that took implicit the governmental debate: "The lone garbage I spot floating retired determination is his [Trump] supporters."

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Why an 81-year-old antheral who had been removed from the contention due to the fact that of wide concerns astir his property and quality was speaking astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic the idiosyncratic vowing to regenerate him remains a mystery. By the extremity of the week, the White House had altered the official transcript to quell the firestorm, but the harm was done. 

The incidental occurred days aft an Axios study headlined "Harris stiff-arms Biden" detailing Biden’s unsuccessful attempts to run for his second-in-command. The effect from the Harris run has been "we’ll get backmost to you," according to the reporting. Representing 1 fractional of an medication with its support standing successful the 30s, it’s not hard to spot why.

Biden’s beingness undermines Harris’ slogan of a "new mode forward," a connection that was further muddled aboriginal successful the week by the 2nd surrogate fail: former President Bill Clinton telling rallygoers successful Michigan the system was amended nether Trump. 

It’s said that a "gaffe" is erstwhile a person tells the truth, and to beryllium fair, Clinton’s statement is supported by polling data. Seven successful 10 voters presumption the system negatively, according to a Fox News poll. It’s besides acold and distant the astir important issue, and 1 wherever Trump has a wide eight-point pb implicit Harris. Still, it’s not a adjuvant remark for a campaigner trying to link connected halfway breadstuff and food issues.

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It wasn’t the archetypal slip-up from the 42nd president. Earlier this month, helium appeared to knock the lack of security astatine the confederate border, causing different viral infinitesimal and governmental headache for the Harris campaign. A once-in-a-generation governmental endowment successful his prime, the 78-year-old Clinton is simply a ammunition of his erstwhile self. Eight years ago, portion campaigning for his wife, it was wide helium had mislaid a fewer MPH disconnected his fastball. These days, helium tin hardly get the shot crossed the plate.

Former US President Bill Clinton speaks during a Get-Out-The-Vote rally for Vice President and Democratic Presidential nominee Kamala Harris connected the archetypal time of North Carolina aboriginal voting successful Durham, North Carolina, October 17, 2024. 

Finally, and not to beryllium outdone, was Mark Cuban, the billionaire Harris backer who accused Trump of failing to situation himself with "strong, intelligent women." The backlash was swift and severe, and Cuban was forced to apologize successful an aboriginal Friday greeting societal media post.

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Like Clinton, it wasn’t the archetypal clip Cuban got crossways with the run messaging. He had (correctly) described a projected Biden-Harris taxation strategy connected unrealized superior gains arsenic "an system killer," saying helium went "ballistic" erstwhile helium learned of it. 

Cuban’s beingness connected the way is meant to reassure voters that Harris is not the wild-eyed California liberal her opponents are portraying her as. Why would 1 of America’s astir recognizable and palmy entrepreneurs motion up for a run pushing socialist-style redistribution policies demonizing success? Instead, Cuban became the story, burning precious clip arsenic the contention entered its last weekend.

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When she became her party’s nominee, Kamala Harris faced the unenviable task of introducing herself to voters, presenting herself arsenic a alteration agent, separating from an unpopular incumbent and going toe-to-toe with 1 of the astir dynamic governmental figures of modern times – and doing it each successful a three-month clip window. It was ne'er going to beryllium easy, adjacent if everything went right. 

If Harris comes up abbreviated adjacent week, determination volition beryllium nary shortage of finger-pointing and blasted to spell around. The slip-ups from her "supporters" volition beryllium precocious connected that list.

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