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Axios reporter and CNN contributor Alex Thompson chalked President Joe Biden’s declaration that supporters of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump are “garbage” up to Biden’s inability to communicate “coherently” on Wednesday morning, telling host Kasie Hunt that it’s a “sad reality.”

On Tuesday, Biden remarked that “the only garbage I see floating out there is his [Trump’s] supporters — his — his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable,” setting off a firestorm that ultimately saw his own vice president, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris, distance herself from his comments even though he has claimed that they have been misconstrued.

On CNN, Thompson weighed in on the controversy by remarked that “no one here at this table knows what Joe Biden meant unless someone here has talked to Joe Biden when he made those, when he made those comments. And the sad reality is that they were indecipherable because this president is no longer able to coherently and consistently articulate a message.”

“And that’s just the sad reality. That is why he’s no longer the nominee, because at the debate we all saw that very clearly. And it’s also why Kamala Harris does not want him on the trail. This is a guy that just last week referred to former Representative Gabby Giffords in the past tense — she’s very much alive. This is a

person that last week said that he wanted to throw Donald Trump in jail and then very quickly tried to backtrack and said he just politically meant to lock him up,” he continued. “And we are in this sad scenario where clearly Joe Biden and the aides around him that want to make him feel better, want him to be able to sort of be inserted into this race, see Kamala Harris’s election potential election as an affirmation of his record, but that Kamala Harris does not want him to be inserted and would prefer that he basically be absent this last week of  this election.”

Watch above via CNN.

Tags: 2024 Election, Alex Thompson, Donald Trump, Joe Biden