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(NewsNation) — Vice President Kamala Harris says she “strongly disagrees” with criticizing radical based connected who they vote. Her comments travel 1 time aft President Joe Biden called erstwhile President Donald Trump’s supporters “garbage.”
“I judge the enactment that I bash is astir representing each the people, whether they enactment maine oregon not,” Harris told reporters earlier reporters earlier heading to North Carolina for a run event. “And arsenic president of the United States, I volition beryllium a president for each Americans whether you ballot for maine oregon not. That’s my work and that’s the benignant of enactment that I’ve done my full vocation and I instrumentality it precise seriously.”
The back-and-forth name-calling began during a play Trump rally astatine Madison Square Garden, wherever a comedian and impermanent talker called Puerto Rico a “floating land of garbage.”
Biden responded Tuesday saying: “The lone garbage I spot floating retired determination is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American. It’s wholly contrary to everything we’ve done, everything we’ve been.”
He aboriginal clarified the connection connected societal media.
“Earlier contiguous I referred to the hateful rhetoric astir Puerto Rico spewed by Trump’s protagonist astatine his Madison Square Garden rally arsenic garbage — which is the lone connection I tin deliberation of to picture it,” Biden said. “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That’s each I meant to say. The comments astatine that rally don’t bespeak who we are arsenic a nation.”