CNN Panelist Says Biden Should ‘Embrace’ Calling Trump Supporters ‘Garbage’

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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