“I’m going to do it whether women like it or not. I will protect them. I will protect them from the arriving migrants. “I’m going to protect them from foreign countries that want to attack us with missiles, and many other things.” This is how former President Donald Trump and Republican candidate for the White House explained this Wednesday during a rally in Green Bay (Wisconsin) his project for American women, where he posed with a garbage truck and is dressed as a cleaning worker in response to Joe Biden’s comments. criticized for his comments against Puerto Rico during a Margnate event last Sunday in New York.
Trump acknowledged that his advisers advised him not to talk about “protecting women” following comments he made in September. “I pay these people a lot of money and I said, ‘Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not.’ “I will protect them.”
US Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic candidate reacted quickly to Trump’s speech. “Donald Trump thinks you should make decisions about what you do with your body,” Harris said in a message. “Whether you like it or not.”
Harris campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika also said in X that Trump “believes he knows more than American women.”
Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt responded: according to NBC: “Harris may be the first female vice president, but she has implemented dangerously liberal policies [progresistas] that have left women worse off financially and far less secure than they were four years ago under President Trump.
“Women deserve a president who will secure our country’s borders, remove violent criminals from our neighborhoods, and build an economy that helps our families thrive, and that’s exactly what President Trump will do,” Leavitt added, criticizing White House migration and immigration policies. the economy.
Harris focused much of her campaign on defending reproductive rights after the Supreme Court’s ruling that revoked the guarantee doctrine — in effect since Roe v. Wade. At his rallies, he often says he wants to pass a bill that restores protections from the landmark Supreme Court case.
Trump’s campaign is trying to win over female voters in a race in which polls show razor-thin margins in several battleground states.
Trump, who has already been criticized even within Republican ranks for his “excess of masculinity” and for underperforming among women in recent polls, took credit for cuts to abortion rights and praised the fact that the question of abortion is referred to the States. although he suggested he would not sign a federal ban on abortion.
A poll this month by NBC News indicated a significant gender gap in voters’ preferences for candidates, with women supporting Harris by a margin of 14 percentage points and men supporting Trump by a margin of 16 points .
The same survey found that voters considered abortion the issue that concerned them most, with 22 percent saying they considered it important enough to vote only in favor of it.
Trump, in a garbage truck
Dressed as a sanitation worker and from the cab of a garbage truck, Donald Trump tried Wednesday to convince voters in the battleground state of Wisconsin that Democrats consider those who vote for him to be ” trash.”
These dramatic moves came in response to a verbal gaffe by Joe Biden the night before. Biden justified himself by saying his intention was to condemn a comedian for his racist remarks at a massive rally hosted by Trump at New York’s Madison Square Garden over the weekend.
Trump and his allies, however, took advantage of Biden’s remarks to assert that Democratic candidate Kamala Harris is not sincere in her promise to be a president for all Americans, even those who do not vote for her. During a visit to the city of Green Bay, located in a Republican-leaning region of a swing state where polls show everyone can win, Trump drove home the point by ditching his usual pantsuit and donning a reflective orange vest for giving a speech. in a stadium filled with his supporters in red caps.
“I have to start by saying that 250 million Americans are not trash,” Trump said at the start of his nearly 90-minute speech. He did not specify how he arrived at the 250 million figure, but it appears to be the entire U.S. population minus those who voted for Biden in 2020.
“This week, Kamala compared her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history, and now, speaking on a campaign call last night, dishonest Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really thought of our supporters. He called them trash. This simply cannot be the case.”
Biden’s gaffe, one more in his nearly four years in office, threatens to complicate Harris’ campaign, after her efforts to win over Latino voters were boosted by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s comment at Sunday’s rally last at Madison Square Garden, in which he declared: the US territory of Puerto Rico is “a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean”.
Puerto Rican stars Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin have since announced their support for Harris, and on Wednesday, reggaeton singer Nicky Jam, who also has ties to the island, cited those comments in withdrawing his support for Trump.
Biden, however, appeared to offer the Republican Party a new line of attack when he said during a Zoom call Tuesday evening with a Latino election organization: “The only garbage I see floating around is his supporters …their demonization. » Latinos by their supporters are unacceptable and un-American.
The president later clarified that his intention was to criticize “hateful rhetoric” against Latinos seen at Madison Square Garden, but the Trump campaign insisted Biden was disparaging people who voted for the former president.
With information from The Guardian
