we begin with explosive developments
from the US election campaign trial US
President Joe Biden has called Donald
Trump supporters garbage during a Cara
Harris event Al Sky News Washington
correspondent Analise Nelson for this
report President Joe Biden has referred
to Donald Trump's supporters as garbage
in a campaign phone call with latino
voters on behalf of the Democrats now
this all stems from a joke made at a
rally for Donald Trump at Madison Square
Garden comedians speaking before Donald
Trump came on made a joke describing
Puerto Rico as an island of floating
garbage now this has sparked Furious
response from the Democrats in
particular it plays into an important
narrative for them to appeal to Puerto
Rican voters now Puerto Ricans can't
vote in the presidential election but
there are huge populations of Puerto
Ricans in America including in
Pennsylvania where we are now but in
this phone call Joe Biden's t this
attack one step further and essentially
demonized Donald Trump's supporters
Puerto Rico where I'm in my home state
of Delaware they're good decent
honorable people the only garbage I see
floating out there is his bers this
comment from Joe Biden Hawks back to one
of the iconic moments from Hillary
Clinton in the 2016 campaign where she
called Donald Trump's supporters the
deplorables you know to just be grossly
generalistic
you can put half of Trump's supporters
into what I call the basket of
deplorables right the Trump campaign was
quick to respond to these comments
Senator Marco Rubio from Florida came on
stage at Donald Trump's rally in
Allentown Pennsylvania to condemn it
just moments ago Joe Biden stated that
our supporters are garbage
[Applause]
are garbage he's talking about the
border patrol he's talking about nurses
he's talking about teachers he's talking
about everyday Americans who love their
country and want to dream big again and
support you Mr President and I hope
their campaign is about to apologize for
what Joe Biden just said we are not
garbage remember Hillary she said
deplorable and then she said
irredeemable right but she said
deplorable that didn't work out garbage
I think is worse right but he doesn't
know you have to please forgive him
please forgive
him for he not knoweth what he said
these people terrible terrible terrible
to say a thing like that but he really
doesn't know he really honestly he
doesn't and I'm convinced that he likes
me more than he likes Kamala Joe Biden
soon after tweeted earlier today I
referred to the hateful rhetoric about
Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporters
at his Madison Square Garden rally as
garbage which is the only word I can
think of to describe it his demonization
of Latinos is unconscionable that's all
I meant to say the comments at that
rally don't reflect who we are as a
nation not only is this comment likely
to be the focus of the Trump campaign's
attack during this final week of
campaigning it's also indicative of how
much trouble kamla Harris has had
managing Joe Biden as part of her
election campaign axio has reported that
Joe Biden's left multiple days open in
his calendar to join Harris for
campaigning and she's essentially
ghosted him not wanting to connect
herself to the legacy of the Biden years
as his personal approval rating hits
alltime lows and also it becomes an
issue trying to manage these kind of
gaffs at such an important moment
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