'We won’t lose a single voter because of it': Kamala campaign responds to Biden's comments about 'garbage' Trump supporters

After Kamala Harris attempted to distance herself from Joe Biden's comments about Trump supporters being "garbage" on Wednesday morning, her campaign said that they don't expect to lose any votes over the comments. Biden made the remarks during a Zoom call with Voto Latino while Harris was delivering her last big pitch to voters in a big speech at the Ellipse in Washington, DC.

"We won't lose a single voter because of it," said one campaign adviser who went unnamed by CNN. 

The campaign is reportedly "infuriated" by the remarks, which have sidelined the news cycle and put Harris on the defensive when she expected to be winning on Wednesday after her major "closing" arguments speech. "The Biden gaffe yesterday is just so infuriating," said an official with the administration. "Nobody wants him out there."

Biden has reportedly been ready to stump for the Harris campaign for weeks, but her aides have been pushing him off. Democrats have been fighting the image of Biden throughout Harris' 4-month-old presidential campaign and seeking to distance their new nominee from the old one. Biden hasn't made that easy.

Both Harris and her running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz have been pressed for answers on Wednesday. Harris was asked to answer for Biden's remarks as she stood outside a waiting plane at Andrews Air Force base.

Walz was expected to come up with a good response in an ABC News interview.  He shied away from saying anything negative against Biden. "I think there’s– the frustration we’ve seen since January 6, the frustration with Donald Trump’s rhetoric of division, it does fire passions, and I think … President Biden was very clear that he’s speaking about the rhetoric we heard at that. So, it doesn’t undermine it," he said.

Both candidates said that Biden had attempted to clarify his remarks. Shortly after he made them, and the clip of the Zoom call went viral, the White House put out a copy of the transcript of the remarks, which showed a carefully placed apostrophe, slightly changing the meaning of what he'd said.

What everyone heard was Biden saying: "The only garbage I see floating out there are his supporters," Biden said, referring to about half the American electorate. "His demonization of people is unconscionable and it's unAmerican." 

The clarification read "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American." The whole thing was in response to a joke.

Trump responded to the comments from the stage of a rally where he was speaking, saying "You remember Hillary, she said deplorable, then she said irredeemable, right, but she said deplorable, that didn't work out. But I think garbage is worse, right?" Then he suggested forgiveness for Biden, who "really doesn't know" what he said.