Harris and Trump visit N.C., Biden "garbage" comment on Trump rally sparks outrage

Former President Trump and different Republicans were speedy to jump connected comments from President Biden arsenic Trump's run sought to pivot distant from nan contention complete racist remarks astatine his mega-rally connected Sunday. Caitlin Huey-Burns is successful Pennsylvania, wherever Trump said past night. 

Harris delivered her closing argument against Trump astatine nan aforesaid tract he encouraged his supporters to "fight for illustration hell" connected Jan. 6, 2021, earlier they marched to nan U.S. Capitol and tried unsuccessfully to halt nan certification of President Biden's victory. 

Harris, speaking to a monolithic crowd astatine nan Ellipse adjacent nan White House, is trying to tie a opposition betwixt her imagination for nan state and Trump's arsenic she seeks to triumph complete undecided voters a week earlier Election Day. The run said 75,000 group were successful attendance, pinch crowds overflowing connected nan National Mall each nan measurement to nan Jefferson Memorial. 

"We cognize who Donald Trump is," Harris said. "He is nan personification who stood astatine this very spot astir 4 years agone and sent an equipped mob to nan United States Capitol to overturn nan will of nan group successful a free and adjacent election, an predetermination that he knew he lost."

"America, we cognize what Donald Trump has successful mind. More chaos. More division. And policies that thief those astatine nan very apical and wounded everyone else. I connection a different path. And I inquire for your vote," she said. 

She vowed to activity pinch Republicans and independents alike to thief amended Americans' lives.

Telling nan crowd that successful little than 90 days, "Donald Trump aliases I will beryllium successful nan Oval Office," and "on Day One, if elected, Donald Trump will locomotion successful pinch an enemies list." 

"I will locomotion successful pinch a to-do database afloat of priorities for what I will get done," she told nan cheering crowd.

Harris called her Republican rival "unstable," "obsessed pinch revenge," "consumed pinch grievance" and "out for unchecked power." 

Trump connected Tuesday nighttime addressed nan crude and racist jokes that comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made toward nan opening of his Madison Square Garden rally Sunday. Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico arsenic a "floating land of garbage," and made racist jokes astir commencement power and Black group eating watermelon. Tuesday was nan first clip Trump has addressed them directly, though he has antecedently said "nobody has done much for Puerto Rico" than he has. 

"I person nary thought who he is. Somebody said location was a comedian that joked astir Puerto Rico aliases something, and I person nary thought who he was, ne'er saw him, ne'er heard of him, and don't want to perceive of him, but I person nary idea," Trump said successful a Fox News question and reply astir Hinchcliffe and his comments. "It's nobody's fault, but personification said immoderate bad things."

He went on: "I can't ideate it's a large deal. I've done much for Puerto Rico than immoderate president, I think, that's ever — that's ever been president." 

He besides said he had "no idea" who booked Hinchcliffe.

Speaking connected a Zoom telephone pinch supporters Tuesday, President Biden appeared to call erstwhile President Donald Trump's supporters "garbage." Republicans seized connected nan comments, while nan White House offered a different mentation of what Mr. Biden said.

The president was responding to a joke made astatine a Trump rally Sunday astatine Madison Square Garden by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, successful which Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a "floating land of garbage."

In nan video clip obtained by CBS News, Mr. Biden was speaking by video to nan left-leaning group Voto Latino. "The only garbage I spot floating retired location is his supporters," he seemed to say. "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable."

But nan White House denied that nan president had said this astir Trump supporters and released a transcript pinch a connection noting that "supporters" was successful truth "supporter's," and that Mr. Biden was referring to Hinchcliffe and his joke.

"Garbage, I think, is worse," Trump said Tuesday, adding that it was "terrible to opportunity a point for illustration that."

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