“People are hungry to come together again. They’re hungry to find a unifying message. They’re hungry for us to find solutions, whether it’s prices or reproductive care, they want to see solutions,” he said.

In response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday, Biden defended the Puerto Rican community in a video call focused on Latino voters and appeared to criticize either Trump supporters or Hinchcliffe.

“They are good, decent, honorable people,” Biden said of Puerto Ricans. “The only garbage I see floating out there are his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American. “This is completely contrary to everything we do.”

White House spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement that Biden “called the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally garbage.”

Stephanie Cutter, senior messaging advisor to the Harris-Walz campaign, suggested in an interview on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” this morning that people should focus their anger instead on Trump.

“Forgive the faux outrage from Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and his campaign. The president is calling the entire country a dumpster even as he tries to claim that President Biden is insulting Trump voters,” he said.