The Democratic candidate for White Housethe vice president <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/donald-trump-whats-behind-the-us-presidents-baltimore-attack/" title="Donald Trump: What's behind the US President's Baltimore attack”>Kamala Harrisdistanced himself this Wednesday from the controversy unleashed by the American president, Joe Bidenby calling the followers of the Republican candidate, the former president, “garbage” Donald Trumpfor the racist joke about Puerto Ricans.
“I totally disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” the vice president expressed to the press from the air base of Andrewson the outskirts of the capital.
Although Harris pointed out that Biden has already “clarified her comments,” the Democratic candidate repudiated any speech that divides society and reiterated the message of national unity that she expressed on Tuesday night at a massive electoral rally in front of the White House.
“In the work I do I try to represent all people, whether they support me or not, and as president of USA “I will be the president of all Americans whether they voted for me or not,” she declared.
Controversy after controversy
Biden made the controversial comment Tuesday night during an interview with the network CNN in which he defended Puerto Rico after a comedian called it a “floating island of garbage” during the big election rally in Trump in it Madison Square Garden of New York.
“Well, let me tell you something. (…) The only trash I see floating around is his followers. His demonization is unconscionable and un-American. It is totally contrary to everything we have done,” said the president, who in July resigned from running for re-election and passed the baton to Harris.
The words of Biden caused rejection by both Trump as well as Republican Party politicians.
“He really doesn’t know what he said. “It’s something terrible, terrible, but you really don’t know it,” he replied. Trump at a rally in Allentowna majority Latino town in Pennsylvania.
Biden assures that he was not referring to Trump followers
The president rectified his comments on social networks, ensuring that he was referring to the comedian’s “hateful rhetoric.” Tony Hinchcliffe in New York.
“I said it was garbage, the only word I can find to describe it,” the president wrote. “The comments at that rally don’t really reflect who we are as a country,” he added.
Likewise, the White House modified the transcript of the interview to highlight that the president, in reality, called the words of Hinchcliffe and not to the followers of Trump. EFE
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