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UNITED STATES – The art of staging. Donald Trump tried to exploit a gaffe by Joe Biden on his voters this Wednesday, October 30, by appearing in a garbage truck, in the home stretch of his race for the White House against Kamala Harris.
Less than a week before the November 5 election, still uncertain, the Democratic president complicated the vice-president's task by describing the supporters of his Republican predecessor as” garbage “before recovering. But the damage is done in a bitter campaign where each side attempts to exploit the other's missteps, as you can see in our video above.
To ride on the outgoing president's gaffe, Donald Trump therefore sat aboard a garbage truck in his name this Wednesday in Wisconsin, a key state that could swing the result of the election. “What do you think of my garbage truck?” »he told the press. “This truck is in honor of Kamala and Joe Biden. »
Trump turns the situation to his advantage
Still wearing this vest with reflective stripes, he declared to his supporters during a meeting: “Kamala and Joe call you trash, I see you as the soul of America. »
Donald Trump, fond of this type of communication operation, is trying to turn the situation to his advantage, even though all this controversy over garbage started from his own camp.
The Republican was in fact in turmoil after racist remarks from a comedian on the stage of his big rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday in New York. Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean,“floating island of garbage”comments from which the Republican distanced himself.
Kamala Harris at odds with Joe Biden
White House spokesperson Karine Jean-Pierre assured Wednesday that it was this “hateful rhetoric” that Joe Biden wanted to criticize by speaking of” garbage “and not the supporters of his great rival, whom he beat in 2020.
Candidate Kamala Harris, for her part, assured that she was “strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they vote for”to journalists who questioned him about Joe Biden's comments.
The controversy comes at a bad time for the vice-president, who launched a message of unity on Tuesday evening in front of tens of thousands of people in Washington. In a very presidentially staged speech, she urged Americans to “turn the page” Trump.
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