This year’s presidential election has seen a lot of attention-grabbing political events, including President Biden’s performance in the debates being widely criticized and Vice President Kamala Harris calling Trump supporters “trash” in the final stages of the campaign. A gaffe occurred.
Here are six of the biggest political gaffes of 2024.
Biden’s debate fiasco: Hoarse, rambling answers send Democrats into a panic
President Biden’s disastrous performance in the June 27 debate with former President Trump seemed to be the beginning of the end for his 2024 re-election campaign.
During the debate in Atlanta, he suffered from a raspy voice and gave rambling answers, raising questions about his chances of becoming the top Democratic presidential candidate.
President Biden looks on as he takes part in the first presidential debate of the 2024 election with former President Trump at CNN studios in Atlanta on June 27. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)
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The Biden campaign claimed the cause of his hoarseness was a cold, and the 81-year-old Biden admitted a week later that he had “screwed up” and “had a bad night,” but a chorus of Democrats called for him to I couldn’t stop it. drop out of the race.
In a shocking move, Biden suspended his campaign on July 21 and endorsed Harris, who would lose to Trump in November.
Biden calls Trump supporters ‘trash’
Biden appeared to provoke Republicans by calling Trump supporters “trash” less than a week before Election Day.
At President Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 27, a comedian made headlines when he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of trash” and mocked various ethnic groups.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe speaks at President Trump’s campaign rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 27th. (Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images)
And on an Oct. 30 conference call with the Voto Latino group, Biden said, “The only garbage floating around out there is his supporters.”
Biden and the White House tried to clean up his words in the days that followed. But the comment quickly drew parallels to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 classification of half of Trump’s supporters as a “group of deplorables,” a comment widely seen as damaging to her campaign. .
Harris: ‘I can’t think of anything’ she would do differently than Biden
Vice President Kamala Harris’ answer to a question during an Oct. 8 appearance on “The View” could have been a turning point in the 2024 presidential election.
Co-host Sunny Hostin asked Harris, “What, if anything, would you have done differently than President Biden in the last four years?” Harris paused for a moment and said, “I don’t have any thoughts about that, but I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have affected me.”
Deputy Kamala Harris, from left, Sarah Haines, Ana Navarro, Whoopi Goldberg, Alyssa Farrah Griffin, Joy Behar, and Sunny Hostin during a break in a taping of “The View” on Oct. 8. The President (center) was photographed. . (Charlie Tribalew/AFP via Getty Images)
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Hostin gave Harris a clear opportunity to differentiate herself from Biden, but Harris instead effectively cut the Trump campaign’s ads by directly linking them to the unpopular administration.
Tim Walz says he’s “friends with school shooter” during vice presidential debate
On October 1, Harris’ running mate, Tim Walz, declared during a vice presidential debate with Ohio Republican Sen. J.D. Vance that he had become friends with a school shooter. , frowned.
The ill-timed incident occurred as Minnesota’s governor was asked about a change in his position on banning assault weapons.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio, left) and Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz shake hands during the Oct. 1 debate. (Michelle Crowe/CBS via Getty Images)
“I sat in that office with the parents in Sandy Hook. I became friends with the school shooter. I saw it happen,” Walz said.
Perhaps Walz was trying to befriend parents who lost children in horrific school shootings.
President Trump confuses Nikki Haley with Nancy Pelosi at New Hampshire rally
President Trump appeared to confuse then-Republican presidential primary opponent Nikki Haley with former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi during a rally in New Hampshire on January 20.
In a speech in Concord, President Trump said Haley, a former ambassador to the United Nations, was responsible for the collapse of security at the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot. President Trump previously accused Pelosi of refusing to provide support to the National Guard before the riot.
“By the way, they never reported on the Jan. 6 crowd, Nikki Haley. Nikki Haley, Nikki Haley, they – they knew they destroyed all the information and all the evidence. Taka. It was all taken down and destroyed because Nikki Haley was in charge of security, etc. So whatever they wanted, they didn’t turn it down. The people,” Trump said.
Mr. Harris’s word salad confuses the audience.
Harris has made headlines multiple times this year for confusing verbal statements.
“I grew up understanding that the children of the community are the children of the community. We want to ensure that our children thrive and receive the resources they need to reach their God-given potential.” Above all, we should all have a vested interest,” the president once said in September.
“We’re here because we’re fighting for democracy. We’re fighting for democracy. And understanding the difference here, understanding the difference here, Move forward, move forward and understand the difference here,” he said at an election event in November.
The comment drew criticism and ridicule from conservatives online.
Biden introduces Ukraine’s Zelensky as “President Putin” at NATO meeting
President Biden mistakenly introduced Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as “President Putin” during a NATO meeting in Washington, D.C., in July.
“And now I want to turn it over to the president of Ukraine, who is as courageous as he is determined,” Biden said before starting to step down from the podium. “Ladies and gentlemen, President Putin.”
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Mr. Biden then appeared to realize that he was stumbling over his words, saying, “He will defeat President Putin, President Zelenskiy. I am very focused on defeating President Putin.” “We had to worry about that, anyway, Mr. President.”
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser, Joseph A. Wulfsohn, Jacqui Heinrich, Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, David Rutz, Brian Flood and Chris Pandolfo contributed to this report.
