“I’m going to do it, whether women like it or not. I’m going to protect them. I am going to protect them from the migrants who arrive. “I’m going to protect them from foreign countries that want to attack us with missiles, and from many other things.” This is how former President Donald Trump and Republican candidate for the White House explained this Wednesday at a rally in Green Bay (Wisconsin) his plan for American women, where he posed with a garbage truck and dressed as a cleaning worker in response to the criticism from Joe Biden for comments against Puerto Rico at the magnate’s event last Sunday in New York.
Trump acknowledged that his advisors had 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 women like it or not.’ “I’m going to protect them.”
US Vice President Kamala Harris and Democratic candidate reacted quickly to Trump’s speech. “Donald Trump believes you should get to make decisions about what you do with your body,” Harris said in a post. “Whether you like it or not.”
Harris campaign spokesperson Sarafina Chitika also said in X that Trump “believes he knows more than the women of America.”
Trump campaign spokesperson Karoline Leavitt, for her part, 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 much less secure than we were four years ago under President Trump.”
“Women deserve a president who will secure our nation’s borders, remove violent criminals from our neighborhoods, and build an economy that helps our families thrive, and that is exactly what President Trump will do,” Leavitt added, criticizing White House policies on migration and the economy.
Harris has focused a large part of her campaign on the defense of reproductive rights after the Supreme Court ruling that revoked the guarantee doctrine – in force since the Roe v. Wade case. At his rallies he often says that he wants to pass a bill that restores the protections from the historic 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 the Republican ranks for being “excessively masculine” and for performing worse among women in recent polls, has taken credit for the cuts in abortion rights and has praised that the abortion issue be referred to the states, although he has hinted that he would not sign a federal abortion ban.
A poll conducted this month by NBC News indicated a large gender gap in voter 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 revealed that voters considered abortion to be the issue that most challenged them, with 22% saying they considered it important enough to vote solely for it.
Trump, in a garbage truck
Dressed as a sanitation worker and from the cab of a garbage truck, Donald Trump tried to convince voters in the battleground state of Wisconsin on Wednesday that Democrats believe those who vote for him are “trash.”
The theatrics came in response to a verbal gaffe by Joe Biden the night before. Biden has justified himself by claiming that his intention was to condemn a comedian for his racist comments at a massive rally that Trump organized at Madison Square Garden in New York over the weekend.
Trump and his allies, however, have seized on Biden’s words to argue 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. On a visit to the city of Green Bay, which is in a Republican-leaning region of a swing state that polls show anyone can win, Trump drove home the point by ditching his usual pantsuit and donning a vest. reflective orange to give a speech to a stadium full of his red-capped supporters.
“I have to start by saying that 250 million Americans are not trash,” Trump said at the beginning of his nearly 90-minute speech. He did not specify how he had arrived at the figure of 250 million, but it appears that it is approximately the entire population of the United States minus those who voted for Biden in 2020.
“This week, Kamala has been comparing her political opponents to the most evil mass murderers in history, and now, speaking on a call for her campaign last night, dishonest Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really think of our supporters. He called them trash. It just can’t be”.
Biden’s gaffe, one more in his almost four years in office, threatens to complicate Harris’ campaign, after her effort to win over Latino voters was reinforced by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s comment at the rally last Sunday at Madison Square Garden, in which he said that 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 the comments to withdraw his support for Trump.
Biden, however, appeared to gift the Republican Party with a new line of attack when he said on a Zoom call Tuesday night with a Latino voter organization: “The only garbage I see floating around is his followers…their demonization.” of Latinos by their supporters is unconscionable and un-American.”
The president later clarified that his intention was to criticize “the hateful rhetoric” against Latinos seen at Madison Square Garden, but the Trump campaign insisted that Biden was denigrating people who voted for the former president.
With information from The Guardian
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