On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, during a discussion of President Joe Biden’s comments that seemed to call Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage,” CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston argued that the President would be better off to double down on his remarks instead of trying to take them back.
Preston — who is also credited on CNN.com as CNN’s Vice President of Political and Special Events Programming — argued that Democrats would have been better off if Biden had declared, “Yeah, I do mean all those racist supporters of Donald Trump — yeah, I do think that they’re terrible,” rather than look weak by backtracking.
After recalling that President Biden’s advisors had tried to clean up the remarks by claiming that Biden just meant that the comedian, Tony Hinchcliffe, who recently called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at a Trump event, was the…
