2024 election live updates: Biden ‘garbage’ gaffe spurs Republican fury at Harris as Trump election odds soar

Katelyn Caralle, senior US political reporter

Minnesota Governor Tim Walz made the rounds on morning news programs Wednesday in damage control after President Joe Biden called Donald Trump’s supporters “trash.”

But the Democratic vice presidential nominee insisted that Biden’s bungled response to the offensive comments does not undermine the party’s message of unity.

“You compared Trump supporters to Nazis. Biden called them “garbage.” Hillary called them “deplorables.” Doesn’t that undermine your fake message of ‘unity’?’ CBS Mornings host Tony Dokoupil asked Walz.

The governor replied, “No, certainly not.”

The whole debacle was sparked when a comedian at Trump’s Mardison Square Garden on Sinday called Puerto Rico a “floating pile of trash,” sparking anger among the Hispanic community as a whole.

But then Biden gave Republicans a huge boost in the matter when he said Tuesday that “the only trash I see floating out there [Trump] supporters.’

Poll aggregator Nate Silver has warned that Joe Biden is “one of the biggest obstacles to Kamala Harris’ victory” after the president called Donald Trump’s supporters “trash.”

Silver, the founder of polling analysis site FiveThirtyEight, suggested that Biden will be largely responsible if the Democrat does not win the White House next week.

He claimed that the 60-year-old Harris has done a “pretty good job” of rallying support ahead of what could be one of the closest races in history, despite “Biden doing everything he could to screw it up.” .

There is still no official response from Kamala Harris’ campaign after Joe Biden’s ‘garbage’ blunder.

When the president appeared to call Donald Trump’s supporters “trash” on Tuesday evening, it overshadowed his vice president’s final event in Washington DC.

The resulting furor torpedoed what the Harris campaign had expected to be mainstream media coverage of her latest argument against Trump.

While the White House has tried to downplay Biden’s comment, the Harris campaign has remained silent.

About 475 damaged ballots were retrieved from a ballot box that was burned early Monday in Vancouver, Washington, as police condemned the act as a “direct attack on American democracy.”

Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey said workers will begin searching the damaged ballots Wednesday for voter information to contact them about obtaining a new ballot.

He said officials believe the workers, even if damaged, will be able to extract voter information from the ballots.

By Katelyn Caralle, senior US political reporter in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Donald Trump said President Joe Biden calling his supporters “trash” is worse than Hillary Clinton’s 2016 “basket of deplorable” comments.

Trump spoke Tuesday evening to thousands of fans gathered in Allentown, Pennsylvania, with just seven days to go until the election.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief responded Sunday to a comedian at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden who compared Puerto Rico to a “floating island of trash.”

Biden said during a campaign Zoom on Tuesday night, “The only trash I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters.’

It immediately sparked backlash from MAGA fans, including Trump himself, who spoke about it in the middle of his rally.

“Wow, that’s something [Biden] says…garbage. I think it’s worse [than deplorables],” he fired back.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief’s blunder brought back memories of Hillary Clinton’s infamous dismissal of Trump voters as “deplorables” in 2016, which contributed to her shock defeat.

It came as Harris hoped to capture the nation’s full attention with a carefully planned rally in front of the White House for 75,000 Democrats a week before Election Day. Harris used the event Tuesday night to make her final plea, declaring she would be a unifying president “for all Americans.”

Katelyn Caralle, senior US political reporter

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are nearly tied in Michigan, according to a new poll released just six days before the 2024 presidential election.

A Suffolk/USA Today poll shows Trump with a narrow lead of 0.4 percentage points over Vice President Kamala Harris — 47.4 percent to 47 percent.

Michigan is one of seven swing states that are essential to achieving a victory on November 5. The others are Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The results between the candidates are well within the 4.4 percentage point margin of error in the Michigan poll.

Of the 500 Michiganders surveyed, 1.4 percent still say they will vote for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And the same percentage say they will vote for Green Oarty candidate Jill Stein.

Senator Tim Scott told DailyMail.com that black male voters have been lied to by Democrats for years.

And that is why enthusiasm for Donald Trump among them has never been greater, he says.

With less than a week until Election Day, the South Carolina Republican is traveling the country to attend events with Black voters in swing states on behalf of the ex-president and Republican Senate candidates.

During his travels he regularly hears frustrations from these men who indicate that they feel duped by the Democrats.

“What I often hear is that ‘the Democrats lied to us,’” Scott revealed to DailyMail.com.

Hours after he was released from federal prison, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s former chief strategist, said he had a warning for the Biden family: Pardon Hunter before he has to serve a sentence that could destroy him.

“I don’t think Hunter Biden would last 48 hours in a federal prison,” he told DailyMail.com

“I think it would be too much for him, especially because of his previous drug addiction.”