“The only garbage I see out there is his supporters,” said President Joe Biden on Tuesday evening, referencing a comedian’s comment at former President Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. Biden said this as Vice President Kamala Harris delivered on the Ellipse, visible from the White House windows, what her campaign described as her campaign’s “closing argument” speech. Calling half the United States’ electorate “garbage” is obviously political malpractice. Recognizing that was the White House press office and a liberal Politico reporter’s insertion of an apostrophe, joined by an apology posted on X in Biden’s name about an hour later. However, these attempts to mislead seem unpersuasive considering the barrage of comparisons by Democrats, up to and including Harris’ running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz of the Trump rally with a 1939 Madison Square Garden rally for the pro-Nazi German American Bund. Actually, that rally was conducted in an earlier Madison Square Garden, demolished in 1968, while the current arena has been the site of the 1976, 1980, and 1992 Democratic National Conventions, all of which I attended. Of course, as Axios’ Alex Thompson quickly noted: “Operatives in both parties instantly saw [Biden’s comment] as a flashback to Hillary Clinton’s ‘basket of deplorables’ comment” in 2016. The difference is, Clinton insulted only half of Trump’s supporters, while Biden seemed to insult all of them. Sensible Democrats understand that. Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro apparently surprised by a CNN interviewer’s question, replied: “I’m giving you my fresh reaction to it. I would never insult the good people of Pennsylvania or any Americans if they choose to support a candidate that I didn’t support.” The Trump campaign instantly emailed supporters, “You are not garbage!” Biden’s “garbage” comment, a week before Election Day, stepped all over Harris’ “closing argument,” in which she said, “I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy. … I’ll give them a seat at the table.” The Biden comment hurts because it’s indicative of the contempt and hatred many Democratic politicians and voters feel for their fellow citizens who support the other party’s candidate. However, it’s not the first possibly calamitous mistake made by either side’s campaign during this closely contested campaign. The “garbage” comment was evidently a riposte to the comedian’s joke at the Trump rally that Puerto Rico is “a floating island of garbage.” Puerto Rico actually has a landfill shortage problem, but whoever failed to vet the comedian’s text or approved it committed political malpractice. Democrats gleefully hoped to exploit it in the only target state with many voters of Puerto Rican heritage, although polling suggested that much lower shares of Latinos than blacks take offense at arguably disparaging comments. Republican strategists are hoping the Biden remark will augment their side’s advantage in enthusiasm, which has been reflected pretty clearly in early voting in Nevada and perhaps Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina as well. Beyond individual incidents, it’s arguable that both campaigns have made fundamental mistakes that will be considered fatal for whichever of them loses. Not just at Madison Square Garden but in one rally after another, the Trump campaign has taken the risk that invited speakers and, perhaps more likely, the candidate himself will make statements that are politically damaging or can be rendered as such not only by Democrats but a hostile press. Trump’s disjointed sentences, in which, as he said, he “weaves” his ideas together, leave him vulnerable to malicious misinterpretation, such as the argument still peddled by Biden that he did not condemn “neo-Nazis and white nationalists” in Charlottesville in 2017. The Harris campaign, in contrast, has been careful to subject its candidate to only a few challenging or not entirely sympathetic interviews, and even there, she has not always been prepared with politically deft responses. For example, she told the women at “The View” that nothing came to mind when she was asked how she differs from Biden. Although apparently healthy and a comparatively youthful 60 years old, Harris has made fewer public appearances than any candidate in the past five campaigns—except Biden in 2020. Voting for president is a person’s most personal choice, and Harris’ strategy of cagey responses and refusal to give more than perfunctory explanations of changes from her radical 2019 campaign stances risks losing votes another Democrat might win. If Trump risks revealing too much of himself, Harris risks revealing too little. These perhaps unwise risks seem pretty clearly to have been driven by the candidates, not their managers. Lesser decisions may seem unwise in retrospect—Trump’s campaigning in Democratic-leaning New Mexico; Harris’ promoting a rally with Beyoncé in Houston where the singer didn’t sing; both candidates pandering with proposals such as no taxes on tips and spending and trade policies likely to trigger renewed inflation. If Harris loses, an impaired Biden stepping down from pursuing a second term at 81 years old and then clearing the way for a largely unvetted and unpracticed Harris to replace him might seem an obvious mistake. If Trump loses, it might appear obvious that it was a mistake for Trump to insist he really won in 2020 and elbow aside all primary competition this year at 78 years old. It’s tempting to conclude that Trump couldn’t beat any Democrat except Harris and that Harris couldn’t beat any Republican except Trump. All that said, it’s unwise, so close to the election, to be confident that your candidate has made their last mistake or that the opposition’s last mistake will surely be decisive. “There’s a nontrivial chance,” National Review’s Dan McLaughlin tweeted Oct. 29, “that the worst, stupidest & most important things to happen in this election haven’t happened yet.” COPYRIGHT 2024 CREATORS.COM We publish a variety of perspectives. Nothing written here is to be construed as representing the views of The Daily Signal. The post Who’ll Make the Last Mistake in This Flawed Campaign? appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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Sam Harris was once a key thinker when it came to waking liberals up to the dangers of identity politics on the left. However, that has not stopped him from contracting a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome, which he has tragically been unable to shake. “My original claim, Sam, is that Donald Trump is very obvious in his excesses. Democrats and the Democratic Party and Kamala Harris are much more, I would say much more, subtle in their excesses,” Ben Shapiro said in a debate with Sam Harris on Bari Weiss’ “The Free Press” podcast. "But those excesses are no less dangerous for being more subtle, in fact, in some ways I think they are more dangerous." “You can’t use a phrase like ‘no less dangerous.’ Hillary Clinton conceded in 24 hours. That is less dangerous than this continuous provocation that has gone on for years,” Harris responded, referencing Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results. “I disagree with you,” Shapiro shot back. “I think that the attempt by members of the media, by Hillary Clinton who herself said that Donald Trump was illegitimately elected based on Russian interference in the 2016 election, was highly damaging.” Harris then acted as though Clinton no longer says anything of the sort. “She will still claim openly that there was manipulation that took place during the 2016 election,” Shapiro responded, while Harris repeated, “That’s not true.” Harris then went on to make the case that “the sane thing to say is that there is continuous foreign interference in our elections.” “Sam, now you’re proposing a double standard. When Hillary says it, it’s totally subtle and fine, and when Trump says it in the most obvious, foolish way, it’s totally different,” Shapiro said, stifling a laugh. “You’re just missing the relevant details,” Harris concluded. Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” is dismayed to see how bad Harris’ TDS has gotten, as Rubin once looked up to him. “He’s not missing the relevant details. Hillary repeatedly, multiple times on Twitter and throughout the media, over the course of the four years of Donald Trump’s presidency, referred to him as illegitimate and said that the election was stolen,” Rubin says. “They also had a sham impeachment, they had 51 intelligence officials who claimed that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation,” he continues, noting Big Tech banned the story. “You had an entire machine that was designed to destroy Donald Trump,” he adds. Want more from Dave Rubin?To enjoy more honest conversations, free speech, and big ideas with Dave Rubin, subscribe to BlazeTV — the largest multi-platform network of voices who love America, defend the Constitution, and live the American dream.

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