CNN Senior Political Analyst Mark Preston said Wednesday President Joe Biden should own up to calling former President Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage.”
Biden made the comments Tuesday during a virtual campaign event in response to a joke stand-up comedian Tony Hinchcliffe told during Trump’s Sunday rally at Madison Square Garden. Preston said that doubling down on the comments would make Democrats look “strong.”
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“I’m of the mindset that if you say it, you might as well just embrace it, and I do think that that’s a problem for Democrats,” Preston said as “CNN This Morning” host Kasie Hunt was seeking comments from political strategists on the panel.
“It’s shocking, you know, that I would say that. No, but realistically, like I do think if he said, listen, yeah, I do mean all those racist supporters of Donald Trump, yeah, I do think that they’re terrible. I think that people would look at the Democratic Party a little bit different,” Preston added. “I do think that the Democratic Party in general doesn’t look like they are strong enough and they will always back off of things. And I think that when Joe Biden backs off of saying what he really believes, I don’t think that’s a good look.”
Vice President Kamala Harris and her running mate, Democratic Gov. Tim Walz of Minnesota, have escalated attacks on Trump, with Harris devoting a major speech Tuesday to attacking the former president as a “petty tyrant” days after calling Trump a “fascist” during a CNN town hall. Walz compared Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden to a 1939 rally at the venue held by a group sympathetic to Nazi Germany.
The Harris campaign has actively distanced itself from Biden on the campaign trail.
Harris trails Trump by 0.4% in the RealClear Polling average of polls from Oct. 11 to 29, with Trump’s lead dropping to 0.1% when Green Party candidate Dr. Jill Stein, independent candidate Cornel West and Libertarian candidate Chase Oliver are included in surveys.
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