Harris' top surrogates Clinton, Obama and Biden backfire on campaign trail, boosting Trump

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has been able to spin Vice President Kamala Harris' top Democratic surrogates' recent campaign stops as an endorsement for him as their statements have somewhat backfired. 

Former Democratic presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and current President Joe Biden have been surrogates for Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and Trump has used some of their recent remarks to benefit himself, whether it be a failed political move or a statement. 

Over the weekend while Clinton was stumping for Harris in Georgia, he made a remark about migrants at the southern border not being properly vetted. 

“You had a case in Georgia not very long ago, didn’t you?” he asked. “They made an ad about a young woman who had been killed by an immigrant. Yeah, well, if they’d all been properly vetted that probably wouldn’t have happened.”

Earlier this year an illegal alien from Venezuela, Jose Ibarra, was charged with the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley.

The Trump campaign seized on Clinton's remarks and sent out an email titled “Bill Clinton Blames Kamala Harris For Laken Riley’s Death.”

A spokesperson for Clinton said that the Trump campaign took his words out of context, according to The Hill.

Clinton later took a shot at Trump for tanking a bipartisan border bill that he said would have helped with the border crisis. Many Republicans voted against the bipartisan border bill because, they argued, it wouldn't stop illegal immigration and rather would keep enabling it.

Prominent pollster Scott Rasmussen suggested Tuesday that Clinton’s border comments weren’t a slip of the tongue.

”He always had a better sense of some of the more centrist issues," Rasmussen said on an upcoming interview to be aired Wednesday on the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show, referencing Clinton. "He was much more centrist of a politician. So he spoke the truth in a way that may hurt the Harris campaign."

Earlier this year, Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Harris, but it has been speculated that he has been taking subtle shots at the vice president.

According to multiple reports, Harris has been attempting to distance herself from Biden and his policies in order to "redefine" herself. However, Biden has been making it clear in recent statements that Harris has been a major player in the administration and was always on the same page. 

"I'm in constant contact with her. She's aware we all....we're singing from the same song sheet. We, she helped pass all the laws that are being employed," said Biden, according to Fox News.

"Now, she was a major player in everything we've done, including passage of legislation which we were told we could never pass. And so she's been, and her staff is interlocked with mine in terms of all the things we're doing," he added. Harris herself reinforced that notion when on ABC's "The View," when asked if there was anything she would have differently in the past four years, replied "There is not a thing that comes to mind in terms of – and I’ve been a part of most of the decisions that have had impact, the work that we have done,” Harris said.

The Trump campaign has jumped on Biden's gaffes that imply he is not really with Harris, like when he put on a Trump hat during an event in Pennsylvania. 

"BREAKING: Kamala did so bad in last night's debate, Joe Biden just put on a Trump hat," the Trump War Room posted on X.

The White House told The Daily Mail that Biden wore the hat to show "bipartisan unity."

"At the Shanksville Fire Station, @POTUS spoke about the country's bipartisan unity after 9/11 and said we needed to get back to that," White House spokesperson Andrew Bates wrote on X. 

"As a gesture, he gave a hat to a Trump supporter who then said that in the same spirit, POTUS should put on his Trump cap. He briefly wore it," the post continued.

Another campaign failure came from Obama when he went to stump for Harris in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He chastised black male voters for not showing more support for Harris. 

The lack of support appears "to be more pronounced with the brothers," Obama said during the event. “You’re coming up with all kinds of reasons and excuses: I’ve got a problem with that. Because part of it makes me think — and I’m speaking to men directly — part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren’t feeling the idea of having a woman as president, and you’re coming up with other alternatives and other reasons for that.”

Former Ohio Democratic state Sen. Nina Turner slammed Obama's comments in an appearance on CNN on Thursday night.

“Why are black men being lectured to? Why are black men being belittled in ways that no other voting group are?” Turner said. "Now, a lot of love for former President Obama, but for him to single out Black men is wrong, and some of the Black men that I have talked to have their reasons why they want to vote a different way, and even if some of us may not like that, we have to respect it.”

The Trump campaign ended up sending an email highlighting the 45th president's accomplishments with black male voters. 

"Kamala Harris is in full-blown desperation mode as she spends the waning days of the campaign attempting to stop the bleeding among voting blocs most traditionally aligned with Democrats," the email reads. "Nowhere is that more evident than in her outreach to Black Americans — voters of whom Democrats have taken advantage for generations."