Biden calls Trump voters ‘garbage’ • RFK should stay on ballot

Candidates traveling thousands of miles, campaigns costing hundreds of millions of dollars and opinion polls with small margins: the final stage of the American presidential election is very exciting.

In the last week before the elections, NOS monitors events in this daily collection article.

US President Biden has shamed the Harris campaign by calling Trump supporters “garbage”. He did this when he addressed Latino voters in a conversation the insult from the Trump camp that Puerto Rico is a floating pile of garbage. Biden actually called Puerto Ricans “decent, honest people. The only garbage I see floating around is his supporters.”

The character is surprising because Harris emphasizes that she attacks Trump, but respects his voters. The idea sparked coverage in the right-wing media Harris’s closing argument. “Biden drops mask,” read a Breitbart headline, and Fox News compared it to Hillary Clinton’s description basket of defects, with which she called Trump supporters idiots in 2016. At a Trump rally, Senator Rubio, himself Latino, apologized. Biden tried to limit the damage through X: “I called out the Trump supporter’s hateful rhetoric about the garbage of Puerto Rico. “

The Supreme Court rejects the request of Robert Kennedy Jr. remove his name from ballots in the swing states of Michigan and Wisconsin. RFK withdrew as a presidential candidate in August and expressed his support for Trump. His name on the ballot could reduce the number of votes for Trump, with whom he shares part of the support base. However, the states warned that voting has already started in both the states so no further changes can be made.

The conspiracy theorist who seriously injured the husband of Democrat Nancy Pelosi was sentenced to life in prison two years ago. A jury in California found him guilty of kidnapping and burglary. He was previously sentenced to 30 years in prison in a federal trial. David DePape hit Paul Pelosi with a hammer when he tried to attack his wife. The family are calling the funeral and say that not a day goes by without thinking about the attack and that they fear it will happen again. DePape plans to appeal. His lawyer says he was prone to extreme conspiracy theories because of his mental problems.

With just under a week to go before the election, more than 50 million Americans have already voted. That is about a third of the total number of voters as of 2020 and about a fifth of eligible voters in the country, about 244 million. According to experts who keeps track of the numbers the number of early voters is partly divided between the votes by mail and the voters who came to the polling station.

What is surprising is the high percentage of registered Republicans who have already voted: 36 percent of the votes against 39 percent Democrats. In the previous election, those numbers ended up much further apart: 45 percent Democrat and 31 percent Republican. By the way, that ratio could change this time as well, Democrats often vote later. In 2020, more than 100 million people voted earlier than election day, but this was also due to the extensive corona measures in place at the time.

Judge Aileen Cannon does not intend to replace her in the case against the man who wanted to attack Trump. The suspect’s lawyers had asked for this because Cannon was nominated by Trump, has made statements in his favor in the past and the former president has praised him. The case was handed to Cannon at random. She claims to be impartial. “I have no relationship with the victim,” she said of Trump. Cannon is also a judge in the lawsuit over Trump’s withholding of classified documents. She draw a line with accusations that the appointment of a special prosecutor was illegal, a reason on which legal experts have serious doubts.

Kamala Harris is right where Donald Trump stopped at the Capitol four years ago her own vision presented to the US. “It doesn’t have to be this way,” she urged voters about Trump’s plans. “If he’s elected, he’s going to walk in there with a list of enemies,” she said, pointing to the White House behind her. “If I’m elected, I’ll come in with a to-do list.” The speech drew a huge crowd, according to the campaign itself about 75,000 people.This would have doubled her own record of 30,000 visitors for a meeting with Beyoncé and also attracted more supporters than Trump during the storm Capitol, which attracted more than 50,000 people.

Speaking to the press, Trump refused to respond to the insulting comment that Puerto Rico is a mountain of floating garbage. A comedian made that statement on Monday before the speech by the Republican candidate. Trump said he had never heard of the criminal comedian. Trump said he felt nothing but love at the meeting in Madison Square Garden. “It was a celebration of love, absolutely a celebration of love. It was an honor to be a part of that.” ‘A love festival‘ also the character used by Trump to launch the Capitol.

A small group of demonstrators were waiting for Trump when they visited Allentown, Pennsylvania. They carried island flags and chanted “immigrants make the USA great.” ” Trump’s arrival was seen as appropriate because the majority of Allentown’s population is Latino, a group where Trump came under fire for the comedian Hinchcliffe’s comments.

The Ministry of Commerce will later today publish quarterly figures on gross national income, the total value of services and products provided in the country. It is expected that the figures will have decreased slightly compared to the second quarter, but that there will still be strong growth of around 2.5 percent. Along with falling inflation and rising wage figures, this is good news for the election issue that Americans consistently put at number 1.

Jennifer Lopez is campaigning with Harris in Las Vegas today. With the singer and actress of Puerto Rican origin, the Democrat will try to appeal to the large Latino community in the swing state of Nevada: just over a quarter of the population is of Latin American descent.

Trump has planned rallies today in the swing states of North Carolina and Wisconsin. In the last state he will share the stage with the legendary quarterback Brett Favre, who is still one of the greatest heroes of the American football team Green Bay Packers.

In the lead up to US Election Day on November 5, we’ll be creating this daily round-up of breaking news. If there is a reason for more articles about the American election campaign, you can of course read them on NOS.nl.