Aaron Blake is a “senior political reporter” at The Washington Post, for a section they call “The Fix.” Well, Blake’s pathetic attempt to help Joe Biden paper over what he quite obviously said is an attempt at “the fix,” but it doesn’t work.
Biden said “Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage…the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters. His, his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.”
The Washington Post headline:
Did Biden call Trump supporters ‘garbage’? It comes down to an apostrophe.
Republicans have long strained for a new Hillary Clinton-“deplorables” moment, but Biden’s defense is entirely plausible. [Emphasis mine.]
Blake recalled how Hillary Clinton calling Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables” may have kept her from winning in 2016. But…
