RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Kamala Harris said Wednesday that she disagrees “with any criticism of people based on who they vote for,” reacting after President Joe Biden made a reference to Donald Trump’s supporters and “garbage” as the vice president delivered a speech aimed at unity.
“I will represent all Americans, including those who don’t vote for me,” she said.
Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, offered the comment to reporters as she prepared to campaign in North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, part of what’s expected to be a dayslong blitz of battleground states in the final week before Election Day. Her words were an attempt to blunt the controversy over Biden’s rhetoric and put some distance between herself and the president, something she has struggled with in the past.
The tumult began Tuesday night around the time that Harris was delivering a unifying message in a speech near the White House, the capstone of what her team has called the “closing argument” of her campaign. Inside the building, Biden was criticizing Trump’s recent Madison Square Garden rally, where a comedian described Puerto Rico as an “floating island of garbage.”
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