Vice President Kamala Harris told reporters she rejects criticism based on how someone votes. The White House says President Joe Biden was referring to racist rhetoric, not to Trump voters.
By Tyler Pager and Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Washington PostVice President Kamala Harris departs after a campaign event in North Carolina on Wednesday.
The most recent uproar began when Biden, in a Zoom call with Latino voters on Tuesday evening, brought up a racist insult toward Puerto Rico by a speaker at a Trump rally Sunday in New York. The comedian Tony Hinchcliffeduring the Trump rally at Madison Square Garden“Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of garbage.’ They’re good, decent, honorable people. The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters.
“We are fighting for our democracy. We love our democracy. It can be complicated at times, but it is the best system in the world,” Harris said after a repeated interruption.seven battleground states that will swing the election: Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Carolina, Georgia, Arizona and Nevada. The two candidates have spent the final weeks of the campaign repeatedly visiting those states, seeking to sway the tiny remaining sliver of undecided voters before Tuesday.
After landing for a second rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, Trump took questions from reporters on the tarmac while leaning out of the passenger-side window of a garbage truck. “This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden,” Trump said. Asked if he owed the people of Puerto Rico an apology for the comments of the speaker at his rally, the former president said of Puerto Ricans, “They love me and I love them.
At his Madison Square Garden rally Sunday, speakers hurled racist, sexist and otherwise demeaning insults against not only Puerto Ricans, but also Black people, Arabs, Muslims and migrants. The White House then put out two separate transcripts of the remarks. The first showed Biden referring to “supporters’” demonization of opponents - a plural possessive. A few hours later, the White House distributed a new transcript that used “supporter’s” - a singular possessive that apparently referred to the comedian alone.
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