Libertarian strategist Tim Miller said Thursday on a podcast that Democrats should stop coddling President Joe Biden to make him feel “included” in the presidential election, despite his departure from the race in July.
Republicans called out Biden Tuesday after he referred to former President Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage” during an interview with Voto Latino. On “Pod Save America,” Miller called Biden’s remarks “indecipherable,” suggesting that Biden likely didn’t mean to target Trump supporters and should focus on other obligations rather than trying to assist Vice President Kamala Harris.
“I don’t think that his intention was actually to call Donald Trump supporters garbage, but who could tell? Like, really, the whole quote is indecipherable. What he talked about before that was not decipherable, and it’s just — it’s not helpful to be out there,” Miller said. “It gets me a little angry because it’s like I don’t know why people in the Democratic party and around the Biden administration, even on the Harris campaign, like why we feel like we have to baby the president of the United States and like walk on eggshells and make sure he feels included.”
“He’s the president of the United States. President Biden should do president things — he should have private meetings, he should meet with the generals, he should meet with the pardon committee, think about who he’s going to pardon and what other obligations he has for the last two months. Like that is his job for right now,” Miller added.
Miller continued to state how Biden interviewing with others isn’t helpful for Harris, pleading for Biden to not take it as an insult in his suggestion to no longer have him campaign.
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“It is not helpful for him to be out at all with Kamala Harris — he shouldn’t take that personally, we shouldn’t have to care about what his feelings are about it,” Miller continued. “He shouldn’t make people feel bad that he’s not being — whatever. Like, you know, you see these leaks in The New York Times and Politico about this issue, and I find it very frustrating. Everybody should be singly focused on the goal of defeating Donald Trump, having Kamala Harris win this election.”
“It’s hard to think about anything public that Joe Biden could do that would be beneficial to that goal and certainly not being on some Zoom to fill the calendar,” Miller said. “I can’t possibly think about why that would have been useful. So please, I’m begging everybody, it’s not personal — nobody take it personally. If I made a big gaffe on this podcast and tomorrow Fox News is airing it and it would be better for me to go hide for the last five days, I would go hide. Like whatever it takes, Kamala Harris needs to win.”
The controversial comment from Biden came after Republicans and Trump received backlash after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” during the Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday.
Harris has reportedly tried to distance herself from Biden since becoming the party’s presidential nominee, as voters’ top concerns include the economy, inflation and immigration — areas where Biden has polled poorly against Trump. Despite these efforts, Harris notably stated during an Oct. 8 interview on ABC’s “The View” that not one “thing” came to mind when asked if she would change anything from the last four years.
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