Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden aired his frustration with protesters in Pennsylvania, resorting to name-calling 10 days before Election Day.
“I’ll work as hard for those who don’t support me as those who do — including those chumps with the microphone out there,” Biden said Saturday during a drive-in rally in Bucks County.
WATCH: Joe Biden insults Pennsylvanians who don’t support him, calls them “chumps” pic.twitter.com/QvHgk7nppH
— Trump War Room – Text TRUMP to 88022 (@TrumpWarRoom) October 24, 2020
Critics were quick to compare Biden’s off-handed comment to 2016 Democratic standard-bearer Hillary Clinton’s “deplorables” remark.
“A sequel to Hillary’s snobby “deplorable” & “irredeemable” riff. They still think so little of so many Americans,” former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway tweeted.
An increasingly negative & unmasked @JoeBiden yells to a mostly empty lot, coughs into his bare hand, calls millions of Pennsylvanians who don’t support him “chumps”. A sequel to Hillary’s snobby “deplorable” & “irredeemable” riff. They still think so little of so many Americans https://t.co/i88WquAyoT
— Kellyanne Conway (@KellyannePolls) October 24, 2020
In 2016, Clinton claimed “half of Trump’s supporters” could be placed in what she described as “the basket of deplorables.”
“The racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic — you name it. And unfortunately, there are people like that. And he has lifted them up,” she said.
The Bucks County stop north of Philadelphia was one of two Biden events on Saturday. Jon Bon Jovi was the two-term vice president and 36-year Delaware senator’s opening act at a second rally in Luzerne County, south of Scranton. Biden defended his energy policy at both events after saying during the second and final debate that he “would transition from the oil industry.”
“Let me get something straight here in coal country: I will not ban fracking, period,” Biden said in Luzerne County. “I will protect Pennsylvania jobs, period. No matter how many times Donald Trump says it.”
Biden hasn’t held as many in-person events as President Trump this cycle, citing the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Biden campaign releases very few details regarding its public schedule, that hasn’t prevented protesters from causing a ruckus when they can.
Trump supporters could be heard loudly chanting, “Four more years,” over Biden earlier this month in Toledo, Ohio.
