As she tries to contain the damage of Joe Biden calling Americans "garbage," Kamala Harris has been rocked by another gaffe, this time from Bill Clinton.
While stumping for Harris in Michigan, Clinton admitted that President Trump's economy "was better."
The economy has consistently been rated the top issue in the election, and polls show that voters trust Trump more to handle the issue.
In his remarks in Michigan, Clinton claimed that Trump inherited a booming economy from President Obama, while conceding the economy "was better" under Trump.
"I don't think it's right to say that people have to vote for Donald Trump because the economy was better then," he said.
Clinton insisted the inflation of the Biden era was an inevitable product of COVID shutting down supply chains, although Biden's critics say he made inflation worse with massive federal spending.
"COVID busted all the supply chains," Clinton said.
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Harris has acknowledged that Americans are struggling, while awkwardly distancing herself from "Bidenomics" and trying to paint herself as an agent of change. But many Americans still don't know who Harris is or what she plans to do if elected.
The vice president has been criticized for failing to share details on policy, as she sticks to prepared talking points about growing up in the middle class.
Indeed, Harris has all but abandoned messaging on kitchen table issues in the home stretch before Election Day, as she changes focus to blast Trump as an existential threat to democracy.
Kamala's closing pitch to voters this week was undermined by President Biden, who called Trump supporters "garbage" even as Harris tried to portray Trump as a hateful demagogue.
Some believe Harris is making a mistake by attacking Trump's character instead of telling Americans how she will fix the economy. In his own closing argument, Trump has said he will fix what Biden and Harris broke, and it's an argument that Harris' own surrogates are inadvertently making.
On another key issue, immigration, Clinton undermined Harris' messaging earlier this month while discussing the horrific murder of Laken Riley.
"Well, if they'd all been properly vetted that probably wouldn't have happened," Clinton said.
