Trump trash talks Harris as Biden’s ‘garbage’ remark causes controversy

By South China Morning Post | Created at 2024-10-31 03:30:05 | Updated at 2024-10-31 05:20:32 1 hour ago
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Donald Trump pulled an election stunt with a garbage truck Wednesday as the White House campaign was forced off-piste by muddled remarks from President Joe Biden about the Republican’s supporters that caused a headache for Democratic candidate Kamala Harris.

Harris had hoped to spend the day expanding on the final week “closing argument” she made at a huge Washington rally the night before – but found herself instead disavowing Biden’s remark that appeared to label Trump supporters “garbage”.

Trump – who, unlike Harris, has recently called his political opponents “garbage” in public – was on hand to exploit the misstep with a photo op, climbing into a garbage truck at an airport in Wisconsin and answering questions from reporters.

The row started over the weekend when a warm-up speaker at a Trump rally called the US territory of Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage”, in remarks that initially put the Republican campaign on the defensive.

 Reuters

Donald Trump in a garbage truck, in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Photo: Reuters

Yet Biden’s gaffe provided Trump the opportunity to play the victim.

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