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racist set at the New York City rally. Hinchcliffe had called Puerto Rico an “island of garbage” and made other racist and antisemitic remarks. Biden, speaking about the comedy set, defended Puerto Ricans before seeming to call Trump’s supporters garbage themselves.“In my home state of Delaware, they’re good, decent honorable people,” Biden said of Puerto Ricans. “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters… his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.
Earlier today I referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter at his Madison Square Garden rally as garbage—which is the only word I can think of to describe it. His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I meant to say. The…“Just moments ago, Joe Biden stated that our supporters are garbage,” Sen. Marco Rubio said at Trump’s rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday night, drawing boos from the crowd.
Trump had a terse reply on stage after hearing the news onstage, calling Biden’s comments “terrible” and comparing them to his 2016 rival Hillary Clinton’s remark that half of Trump’s base could be put into a “basket of deplorables.”“Remember Hillary, she said ‘deplorable,’” Trump recalled. “That didn’t work out.
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