2024 election live updates: Biden 'garbage' gaffe spurs Republican fury at Harris as Trump election odds soar

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz made rounds on morning news shows on Wednesday to do damage control after President Joe Biden called Donald Trump’s supporters ‘garbage.’

But the Democratic vice presidential nominee insisted that Biden’s botched response to the insulting comments does not under cut the party’s message of unity.

'You compared Trump supporters to Nazis. Biden called them "garbage." Hillary called them "deplorables." Doesn't that undercut your fake "unity" message?' CBS Mornings host Tony Dokoupil asked Walz.

The governor replied: 'No, certainly not.'

The whole debacle was sparked when a comedian at Trump’s Mardison Square Garden on Sinday called Puerto Rico a ‘floating pile of garbage,’ sparking ire from the Hispanic community as a whole.

But then Biden handed Republicans a huge assist in the matter when he said on Tuesday that ‘the only garbage I see floating out there is [Trump] supporters.’

Poll aggregator Nate Silver has warned that Joe Biden is 'one of Kamala Harris' biggest impediments to victory' after the president referred to Donald Trump supporters as 'garbage'.

Silver, the founder of poll analytics site FiveThirtyEight, suggested that Biden will be largely responsible if the Democrat does not win the White House next week.

He claimed that Harris, 60, has done a 'pretty good job' at rallying support ahead of what could be one of the closest races in history, despite 'Biden doing everything possible to f**k it up'.

There has still been no official response From Kamala Harris' campaign in the wake of Joe Biden's 'garbage' gaffe.

When the president appeared to call Donald Trump supporters 'garbage' on Tuesday night it overshadowed his vice president's closing campaign event in Washington D.C.

The resulting furor torpedoed what the Harris campaign had expected to be blanket media coverage of her final argument against Trump.

While the White House has sought to downplay Biden's comment the Harris campaign has remained silent.

About 475 damaged ballots were retrieved from a ballot box that was burned early Monday in Vancouver, Washington, as police condemn the act as a 'direct attack on American democracy'.

Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey said workers on Wednesday will begin searching through the damaged ballots for voter information in order to contact them about getting a new ballot.

He said officials believe that although damaged, the workers will be able to pull voter information from the ballots.

By Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter in Allentown, Pennsylvania

Donald Trump said President Joe Biden calling his supporters 'garbage' is worse than Hillary Clinton's 2016 'basket of deplorable' remarks.

Trump was speaking to thousands of fans gathered in Allentown, Pennsylvania , Tuesday evening with just seven days left to the election.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief was responding to a comedian at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday comparing Puerto Rico to a 'floating island of garbage.'

Biden said on a campaign zoom Tuesday night: 'The only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump's] supporters.'

It immediately sparked backlash from MAGA fans, including Trump himself who addressed it in the middle of his rally.

'Wow, that's what [Biden] says… garbage. I think it's worse [than deplorables],' he fired back.

President Joe Biden overshadowed Vice President Kamala Harris' big 'closing' campaign speech by calling Donald Trump's supporters 'garbage' in an astonishing outburst.

The 81-year-old commander-in-chief's bombshell gaffe evoked memories of Hillary Clinton's infamous dismissal of Trump voters as 'deplorables' in 2016, which contributed to her shock defeat.

It came as Harris was hoping to capture the nation's full attention with a carefully planned rally in front of the White House for 75,000 Democrats one week before Election Day. Harris used the event on Tuesday night to make her final case, declaring she would be a unifying president 'for all Americans'.

Katelyn Caralle, Senior U.S. Political Reporter

Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are virtually tied in Michigan, according to a new poll released just six days until the 2024 presidential election.

A Suffolk/USA Today survey has Trump with a tiny 0.4 percentage point advantage over Vice President Kamala Harris – 47.4 percent to 47 percent.

Michigan is one of the seven swing states vital to clinching a victory on Novemver 5. The others are Arizona, Georgia, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

The results between the candidates are well within the Michigan poll’s 4.4 percentage point margin of error.

Of the 500 Michiganders surveyed in the latest, 1.4 percent still say they will cast their ballots for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. And the same percentage say they will vote for Green Oarty Candidate Jill Stein.

Senator Tim Scott told DailyMail.com that black male voters have been lied to by Democrats for years.

And that's why enthusiasm for Donald Trump among them has never been higher, he says.

With less than one week until Election Day, the South Carolina Republican has been traveling around the country attending events with black voters in swing states on behalf of the ex-president and Republican Senate candidates.

During his travels he frequently hears frustration from these men who express that they feel duped by the Democrats.

'What I hear oftentimes is that "the Democrats have a lied to us,"' Scott revealed to DailyMail.com.

Hours after being released from federal prison, Donald Trump's former chief strategist Steve Bannon said he had a warning for the Biden family: Pardon Hunter before he has to serve a sentence that could destroy him.

'I don't think Hunter Biden would last 48 hours in a federal prison,' he told DailyMail.com

'I think that it would be too much for him, particularly with his previous drug addiction.'