As Donald Trump and Kamala Harris blitz the swing states in the final days before the US election, twin 'garbage' controversies have created headaches for both sides.
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But the Trump campaign was quick to pounce. Florida senator Marco Rubio interrupted a campaign rally in Pennsylvania to deliver the "breaking news" of Biden's remarks, eliciting boos from the crowd. "How do you like my garbage truck?" he asked through the window of the passenger seat. "This truck is in honour of Kamala and Joe Biden."The final few days ahead of any big election become a frenzy as candidates pick up the pace and the media's interest ramps right up.
At her rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania this week, I met Justin Warren – a "life-long Republican" who's thrown his support behind the vice-president."I'm not going to try to explain why he would say that, you know it could have been a slip or a gaffe on his part. That's wrong." Trump later claimed he didn't know Hinchcliffe, and that he'd done more for Puerto Rico than any other president. But he didn't publicly condemn the joke and he defended the rally more generally as a "love fest".But there's a significant population of people with Puerto Rican heritage living in areas like the majority Latino city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, where Trump campaigned amid the fallout.
"He's a guy who says his mind and people around him say their minds. I don't think it's beneficial, but I don't think it's going to change anything dramatically in the election cycle.""These recent comments, it's just a long history of hate," demonstrator Armando Jimenez said. "They're saying out loud the quiet part."The chaotic aftermath of the 2020 election has loomed large over preparations for next week.
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