Tim Walz defends Bidens trash talk about Trump supporters as other Dems distance

Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz defended President Biden calling Trump supporters “garbage” Wednesday — even as other Democrats sought to distance themselves from the outgoing commander-in-chief’s ill-timed comments just days before the 2024 election.Walz, 60, answered “no” when “CBS Mornings” host Nate Burleson asked the Minnesota governor if the comment was “an example of maybe why he [Biden] should be sidelined?”Biden and Harris were filling “two different positions,” the Democratic No.2 contender attempted to explain.“President Biden’s the president of the United States.

He’s running it,” Walz said.“Vice President Harris is our candidate and will be the next president.

And I think there’s two different positions there.”“The vice president is out speaking about the things that we need to be done for the country.She’s talking about all of those issues that matter to folks,” he went on.

“And the president is doing what he needs to do, and that’s making sure our country is reducing inflation, making sure that we’re taking our leadership role in the world where American values are front in center.So no, it doesn’t.”“The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters,” Biden said on a Tuesday call with the get-out-the-vote group Voto Latino.

“His, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”The White House released a transcript later that inserted an apostrophe to lessen the blow, putting the onus on a Trump’s “supporter’s” comments — apparently comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who joked at a Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday that Puerto Rico was a “floating island of garbage.”“The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as ‘garbage,’” White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a companion statement.Biden, 81, also tried to clean up his remarks in an X post, suggesting he or his staff knew the gra...