MAUREEN CALLAHAN: Biden just exposed Kamala's dirty secret. Now it's time to take out the real 'garbage', America

Talk astir an force from within!

As Kamala Harris delivered her closing statement connected Tuesday nighttime — successful nan protector of nan White House, tract of Trump's January 6 speech, to make her lawsuit arsenic a uniter – Joe Biden tossed a verbal grenade into nan bosom of her campaign, calling Trump supporters 'garbage'.

The harm is inestimable.

It's Hillary Clinton's 'deplorables' infinitesimal each complete again, impervious that nan Democrats person learned thing since 2016, really don't attraction to, and person ne'er stopped believing that Trump voters are mouth-breathing racist, fascist, sexist xenophobes.

The only question: Does Biden cognize what he's doing?

Seems progressively truthful to me. Just arsenic it seems Barack Obama and Bill Clinton, 2 of nan shrewdest governmental strategists of nan modern age, person made harmful remarks while stumping for Kamala.

Would it beryllium astonishing if nan Dem constitution has, astatine best, conflicting feelings astir a early President Cackles?

Speaking to Latino voters successful a Zoom interview, President Biden leapt connected those remarks made by an reproach comic astatine Trump's Madison Square Garden rally connected Sunday, calling Puerto Rico 'a floating land of garbage'.

Now: Was that a clumsy reference to Puerto Rico's decades-long biology crisis, caused by overflowing trash endangering water, air, ungraded and wildlife?

Perhaps. But it did not onshore that way. That joke — defended, notably, by nary little a progressive icon than Jon Stewart — was excessively easy publication arsenic racist. It was a terrible, unforced error. Trump's run swiftly disavowed it.

But present was adjuvant Old Joe connected Tuesday night, speaking from nan White House arsenic Harris was trying to look presidential.

'Just nan different day,' Biden said, 'a speaker astatine [Trump's] rally called Puerto Rico 'a floating land of garbage'. The only garbage I spot floating retired location is his supporters'.

It was the quiet portion said retired loud, again.

The disguise slips and slips and can't beryllium decently affixed. Conservatives don't definitive this benignant of dislike for liberals. Confusion, yes. Skepticism, yes. Sure — Trump attacks Democratic elites, nan lunatic left, and says plentifulness of chaotic stuff — but you don't perceive him calling Harris supporters 'garbage' aliases 'deplorables'.

Yet nan Dems — and their compatriots successful nan left-leaning media — proceed to glorify themselves arsenic nan statement of kindness, unity and tolerance erstwhile they are thing but.

In their eyes, anyone who questions trans orthodoxy is an irredeemable bigot. Anyone not pro-Palestine is simply a genocidal warmonger. If you mobility unfettered late-term abortions, you want to portion women of each their rights. If you want a controlled border, you're racist.

And if you're voting for Trump, you're trash.

Never fto it beryllium said that nan Dems don't cognize really to get group to nan voting booth.

On Wednesday morning, Harris attempted to cleanable up this mess, speaking — conveniently muffled by nan engines of Air Force Two — to a property gaggle astatine Joint Base Andrews.

Has she spoken to President Biden since his remarks?

'He did telephone maine past night,' she said, 'but this didn't travel up.'

Is she kidding? Her ain 'October Surprise' didn't travel up?

Just erstwhile you deliberation Harris can't get immoderate much inauthentic, she outdoes herself. It's genuinely nan only point she's immoderate bully at.

Why not definitive anger, disgust, emotion? Why not make a true-faith effort to speak to undecideds who are, doubtless, now leaning toward Trump?

Then again, this a female who continually praises 'Dougie', nan troublesome hubby who allegedly slapped an ex-girlfriend and impregnated nan nanny. Perhaps Kamala Harris is well-versed successful excusing bad behaviors — damaging, catastrophic behaviors — by nan men successful her life.

Asked whether Trump voters would find Biden's remarks insulting, Harris said, 'I americium moving for president of nan United States' — we cognize — 'talking pinch nan American people… to assistance them up astir their aspirations, their ambitions and their dreams.'

This again? Unreal.

How is it that nary of her speechwriters, nary of those ex-Obama geniuses, we capable to trade her a pithy rejoinder?

Whether she's animated by fear, ineptitude aliases laziness, Harris keeps ratifying 1 truth: she's not up to nan job.

Perhaps this is why Bill Clinton, who surely knows better, admitted — while stumping for Kamala! — that Laken Riley, nan 22-year-old nursing student murdered by an forbidden immigrant, would apt still beryllium live if nan Biden-Harris management had 'properly vetted' nan 10-million-plus migrants (probably more) who person crossed nan separator successful nan past 4 years.

Or why Barack Obama hectored achromatic antheral voters who, successful his estimation, 'aren't emotion nan thought of having a female arsenic president'.

In nan aftermath of Biden's trash-talk, nan White House scrambled. First, they issued a transcript that changed nan connection 'supporters' to 'supporter's' — an unethical altering of a sitting president's remarks.

Aides past furiously contacted newsrooms, nan Mail included, 'checking' that editors had nan charismatic White House statement.

And, of course, left-leaning outlets swiftly fell successful line. Here's nan lead from nan New York Times report, updated astatine 1.20 americium connected Wednesday:

'Donald J. Trump and his friends are trying to recreate a infinitesimal that resonated profoundly pinch his supporters successful nan 2016 campaign: erstwhile Hillary Clinton referred to Trump supporters arsenic a 'basket of deplorables'.'

So you see: Biden's remarks are Trump's fault!

This is why Harris can't break 50 percent successful nan polls. This is why bequest media is dying.

When you show group that what they person seen and heard is, successful fact, not what they person seen and heard, you've lost. When you show group that they are excessively stupid to spot their ain sensory inputs — same.

And erstwhile your outgoing president is still embittered by his expulsion — when, per Axios this weekend, his offers to thief nan Harris run are routinely rebuffed — well, you mightiness conscionable find yourself agreeing pinch your opponent: There is, indeed, an force within.

And his sanction is Joe Biden.