4 key times Biden undermined Harris’ campaign against Trump
President Biden made a series of gaffes, mistakes, and surprising comments while Vice President Kamala Harris rallied national support for her run for the Oval Office. Biden campaigned for and endorsed Harris this cycle, but amid the roughly 100-day Harris-Walz campaign, he also made a series of mistakes that likely hurt her chances of winning the election. Biden initially ran for re-election this year before dropping out in July as concerns mounted over his mental acuity and age.
Fox News Digital examined the last roughly 100 days of the campaign cycle and compiled the top missteps and surprising comments that became fodder for the Trump campaign before the 45th president sailed to re-election on Tuesday.
Biden’s comments set off a lightning storm of criticism from Republicans nationwide, with some comparing it to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s “basket of deplorables” comment during a fundraiser during her failed 2016 campaign, which was viewed as likely undermining her campaign.
Despite efforts to walk the comments back, Trump and his campaign leaned into the derogatory comment, with Trump donning a bright orange sanitization vest and climbing into a “MAGA”-decorated trash truck during a Wisconsin campaign event.
Biden went viral on social media in September when he visited Pennsylvania voters at the Shanksville Fire Station on the anniversary of 9/11, after participating in a wreath-laying ceremony at the town’s memorial site for United Airlines Flight 93. While in the firehouse, he spoke with a Trump supporter and decided to put the man’s pro-Trump hat on his head.
The White House also confirmed the footage was real and defended the bizarre scene as Biden spreading a message of unity to voters.
As two hurricanes ripped through the southeast U.S. in October, Harris slammed Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ response to the natural disasters, with her campaign claiming his office denied phone calls from the Harris team. Biden declared a day after Harris’ remarks that the GOP governor was doing a “great job” and thanked him for his efforts to assist Floridians.
In another surprising incident during the election cycle, Biden was caught on camera playfully biting babies dressed in Halloween costumes at a trick-or-treat event last month. Biden playfully biting the babies unfolded as Trump campaigned in Wisconsin while dressed in the sanitization vest in rebuke of Biden’s “garbage” comment.
Trump secured the massive election win early Wednesday morning, after key battleground states such as Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Georgia voted in his favor. Harris held an election watch party at her alma mater, Howard University, in Washington, D.C., but did not publicly join her supporters as the election results began trending in Trump’s direction. Biden spent the night of the election at the White House, skipping the party.
