US elections live: Harris rejects criticizing Americans based on who they vote for after Biden ‘garbage’ remarks

Here’s a wrap-up of the day’s key events:

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  A new CNN poll shows Kamala Harris leading over Trump by 6 points in Wisconsin and 5 points in Michigan, key battleground states. Harris leads Trump by 48% to 43% among likely voters in Michigan and 51% to 45% in Wisconsin. The candidates are tied at 48% in Pennsylvania.

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  Puerto Rican reggaeton singer Nicky Jam has withdrawn his support for Donald Trump after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Sunday. “Never in my life did I think that a month later a comedian would come to criticize my country, to speak poorly of my country, and therefore I renounce any support to Donald Trump and move aside from any political situation. Puerto Rico deserves respect,” he said.

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  Kamala Harris held a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, this afternoon. “Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy,” she said.

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  Kamala Harris said that she strongly disagrees with criticisms of people based on who they voted for. Speaking on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday following Joe Biden’s “garbage” remarks, Harris said that Biden had “clarified his comments”, adding, “I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they voted for.”

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  Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former California governor, has announced he is endorsing Kamala Harris. He joins a running list of Republicans crossing party lines to vote against Donald Trump.

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  The supreme court has paused the ruling by a lower court that would have restored voting rights to approximately 1,600 voters in Virginia. In its brief order, the supreme court wrote: “The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is granted.”

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  Virginia’s Republican governor Glenn Youngkin has hailed the supreme court’s ruling, calling it a “victory for common sense and election fairness”. Youngkin had ordered state officials to identify and cancel the voter registration of alleged non-citizens unless they could prove their citizenship in two weeks.

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  Tim Walz appeared on Good Morning America, saying, “We know it’s going to be close but we’re going to win this thing.” Speaking to host George Stephanopoulos, Walz said, “We’ve got the better ground game, we’ve got the excitement, we’ve got the momentum on our side.”

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In an op-ed for the Guardian, Bernie Sanders, the independent senator from Vermont, addresses progressives’ concerns about voting for Kamala Harris given the administration’s support for Israel’s war.

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He writes:

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I understand that there are millions of Americans who disagree with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the terrible war in Gaza. I am one of them.

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While Israel had a right to defend itself against the horrific Hamas terrorist attack of 7 October 2023, which killed 1,200 innocent people and took 250 hostages, it did not have the right to wage an all-out war against the entire Palestinian people.

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It did not have the right to kill 42,000 Palestinians, two-thirds of whom were children, women and the elderly, or injure over 100,000 people in Gaza. It did not have the right to destroy Gaza’s infrastructure and housing and healthcare systems. It did not have the right to bomb every one of Gaza’s 12 universities. It did not have the right to block humanitarian aid, causing massive malnutrition in children and, in fact, starvation.

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And that is why I am doing everything I can to block US military aid and offensive weapons sales to the rightwing extremist Netanyahu government in Israel. And I know that many of you share those feelings. And some of you are saying, “How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she is supporting this terrible war?” And that is a very fair question.

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And let me give you my best answer. And that is that even on this issue, Donald Trump and his rightwing friends are worse. In the Senate and in Congress Republicans have worked overtime to block humanitarian aid to the starving children in Gaza. The president and vice-president both support getting as much humanitarian aid into Gaza as soon as possible.

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Trump has said that Netanyahu is doing a good job and that Biden is holding him back. He has suggested that the Gaza Strip would make excellent beachfront property for development. It is no wonder Netanyahu prefers to have Donald Trump in office.

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But even more importantly, and this I promise you, after Harris wins we will, together, do everything we can to change US policy toward Netanyahu – including an immediate ceasefire, the return of all hostages, a surge of massive humanitarian aid, the stopping of settler attacks on the West Bank, and the rebuilding of Gaza for the Palestinian people.

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Read the full piece here:

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Kamala Harris is speaking at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex & Expo Center in Harrisburg, where she is promoting her economic proposals.

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“We stand for working people, we stand for middle class growth and strength,” Harris said.

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She derided Donald Trump’s tariff proposals, and warned that he would dismantle the popular Affordable Care Act. “We know what’s on the line. We know that Donald Trump will try, like he has so many times to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, which would throw, millions of Americans off of their health care and take us back to when insurance companies could deny people with pre-existing conditions,” she said.

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With six days until the 2024 election, more than 57.5 million Americans have already voted as of Wednesday afternoon, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.

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Of the 57 million, just over 30 million voted early in-person and about 27 million voted by early mail.

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A new CNN poll shows Kamala Harris leading over Trump by 6 points in Wisconsin and 5 points in Michigan, key battleground states.

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Harris leads Trump by 48% to 43% among likely voters in Michigan and 51% to 45% in Wisconsin.

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The candidates are tied at 48% in Pennsylvania.

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Here’s a look at where things stand:

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  Kamala Harris held a campaign rally in Raleigh, North Carolina, this afternoon. “Unlike Donald Trump, I don’t believe people who disagree with me are the enemy,” she said.

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  Kamala Harris said that she strongly disagrees with criticisms of people based on who they voted for. Speaking on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday following Joe Biden’s “garbage” remarks, Harris said that Biden had “clarified his comments”, adding, “I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they voted for.”

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  Arnold Schwarzenegger, the actor and former California governor, has announced he is endorsing Kamala Harris. He joins a running list of Republicans crossing party lines to vote against Donald Trump.

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  The supreme court has paused the ruling by a lower court that would have restored voting rights to approximately 1,600 voters in Virginia. In its brief order, the supreme court wrote: “The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is granted.”

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  Virginia’s Republican governor Glenn Youngkin has hailed the supreme court’s ruling, calling it a “victory for common sense and election fairness”. Youngkin had ordered state officials to identify and cancel the voter registration of alleged non-citizens unless they could prove their citizenship in two weeks.

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  Tim Walz appeared on Good Morning America, saying, “We know it’s going to be close but we’re going to win this thing.” Speaking to host George Stephanopoulos, Walz said, “We’ve got the better ground game, we’ve got the excitement, we’ve got the momentum on our side.”

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Kamala Harris said that she strongly disagrees with criticisms of people based on who they voted for.

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Speaking on the tarmac at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday following Joe Biden’s “garbage” remarks, Harris said that Biden had “clarified his comments”, adding, “I strongly disagree with any criticism of people based on who they voted for.”

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In response to whether she is worried that Biden’s comments could increase the country’s political divisiveness ahead of the elections, Harris said:

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“I’ve been very clear with the American public – I respect the challenges that people face, I respect the fact that we all have so much more in common than what separates us.”

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Virginia’s Republican attorney general Jason Miyares has also lauded the supreme court’s decision to strip away voting rights from approximately 1,600 people, saying:

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“I am pleased to announce that the US Supreme Court granted Virginia’s emergency stay to keep noncitizens off our voter rolls.”

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Virginia’s Republican governor Glenn Youngkin has hailed the supreme court’s ruling that allowed the state to proceed with its removal of approximately 1,600 voter registrations, calling it a “victory for common sense and election fairness”.

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Youngkin, who ordered state officials to identify and cancel the voter registration of alleged non-citizens unless they could prove their citizenship in two weeks, said:

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“Clean voter rolls are one important part of a comprehensive approach we are taking to ensure the fairness of our elections. Virginians also know that we have paper ballots, counting machines not connected to the internet, a strong chain of custody process, signature verification, monitored and secured drop boxes, and a ‘triple check’ vote counting process to tabulate results. Virginians can cast their ballots on Election Day knowing that Virginia’s elections are fair, secure, and free from politically-motivated interference.”

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The supreme court has paused the ruling by a lower court that would have restored voting rights to approximately 1,600 voters in Virginia.

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In its brief order, the supreme court wrote:

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“The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is granted. The October 25, 2024 order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia … is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the sending down of the judgment of the Court.”

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Last week, Virginia was asked to permit more than 1,600 people to the vote after a federal judge ruled that the state had illegally revoked those rights.

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The Guardian’s voting rights reporter Sam Levine reported then that the plaintiffs who brought forth the lawsuit said that many people were being incorrectly identified as non-citizen by the Department of Motor Vehicles by checking the wrong box on a form.

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Tim Walz appeared on Good Morning America, saying, “We know it’s going to be close but we’re going to win this thing.”

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Speaking to host George Stephanopoulos, Walz said, “We’ve got the better ground game, we’ve got the excitement, we’ve got the momentum on our side.”

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He added that his biggest concern was that “that Donald Trump has brought up a pessimism to folks, that folks don’t believe that their vote matters. Those votes do matter … Make sure you participate in this democracy. I think you’re going to see Donald Trump continue to spiral downward in this really difficult and hateful rhetoric.”

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In response to Joe Biden’s “garbage” remark, Walz said, “The president’s clarified his remarks, but let’s be very clear: the vice-president and I have made it absolutely clear that we want everyone as a part of this. Donald Trump’s divisive rhetoric is what needs to end … and what I say is, there’s a place for all of us here.”

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In a new interview on Fox News, Nikki Haley, a Donald Trump critic-turned ally, said now was “not a time to have anyone criticize Puerto Rico or Latinos”.

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Haley, who ran against Trump earlier this year before dropping out the presidential race, added:

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“You’ve got Americans who are absolutely not going to vote for Trump. And then you’ve got a percentage in the middle who like Trump’s policies but don’t like his style. That is what they need to focus on. So when you look at these things, it has got to be a story of addition. This is not a time to have anyone criticize Puerto Rico or Latinos. This is not a time for them to get overly masculine with this bromance thing that they’ve got going. 53% of the electorate are women with will vote. They care about how they’re being talked to, and they care about the issues …”

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Donald Trump’s extremist attacks on top Democrats as “the enemy from within” and talk of deploying the military against political foes if he wins the election are stark signs Trump will endanger the rule of law in America, say former US justice department officials and scholars.

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Trump’s threats – singling out ex-speaker Nancy Pelosi, Adam Schiff and others as “the enemy from within” and “more dangerous than China [and] Russia” – jibe with his earlier incendiary talk of using a return to the White House to seek “revenge” against political foes led byJoe Biden. He also suggested the military could be used to quell violence at the polls from “radical left lunatics”.

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Those comments, along with Trump’s adamant refusal to say clearly he will accept the election results if he is defeated, prompt critics to say Trump poses unprecedented dangers to the US constitution …

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The latest polls show Kamala Harris enjoys a small lead over her rival Donald Trump. However, the election is still too close to call and a small margin of error could see either candidate in the White House.

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The key battleground states, so named because there is no entrenched support for Democrats or Republicans and could swing either way, are Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona, Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and North Carolina.

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Welcome to our ongoing coverage of the US election campaign as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump continue to make their pitches to voters with less than a week to go to election day.

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Current president Joe Biden was forced to clarify comments he made on Tuesday after he was seen in an edited video clip saying “the only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters”.

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He said that a pro-Trump comedian’s “hateful rhetoric” about Puerto Rico was “garbage”.

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Republican politicians and rightwing media outlets quickly picked up the clip to argue that Biden had called Trump’s supporters garbage, comparing his remarks with Hillary Clinton’s labeling of half of Trump supporters as belonging in “a basket of deplorables” in 2016.

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  Urged by some allies to apologise for racist comments made by speakers at his weekend rally, Donald Trump took the opposite approach on Tuesday, saying it was an “honour to be involved” in such an event and calling the scene a “lovefest” – the same term he has used to describe the 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol.

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  Harris will spend election night at her alma mater, Howard University, in Washington, according to a person familiar with the matter. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss her campaign’s plans. If elected, Harris would be the first graduate of a historically Black university to occupy the Oval Office.

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  Michelle Obama took the stump in Georgia. The former first lady’s organisation When We All Vote hosted a rally for more than 2,000 people at an arena in College Park, near Atlanta’s airport – a slickly produced event that was dominated by earnest pleas to vote from a star-studded roster.

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  JD Vance hit back at those who say Trump is a fascist, accusing Harris and her allies of disrespecting second world war veterans as he campaigned on Tuesday in one of the most hotly contested regions of battleground Michigan.

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Alice Herman

The Guardian’s Alice Herman is in Madison, Wisconsin, for the Kamala Harris event.

She reports: Gracie Abrams, a popular gen Z singer-songwriter, is performing in Madison at the Alliant Energy Center, where Harris is scheduled to speak soon. Her performance was likely a draw for some in the crowd – including the young woman in the risers to my left who has been sob-singing every lyric during Abrams’s performance.

Trump plays a video about Jocelyn Nungaray, who was killed in Texas when she was 12 yeas old by two Venezuelan men who reportedly entered the country illegally.

The video features Nungaray’s mother talking about her daughter and what happened, and is incredibly sad.

Trump has talked about Nungaray before. During Trump’s presidential debate against then presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden, Trump repeatedly brought up her murder and assault.

Chris Stein

As Trump began speaking about his “favorite chart” – the one about illegal immigration that he was talking about on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania when a gunman tried to kill him – a woman in the audience began shouting: “Fight! Fight! Fight!”

It’s what Trump shouted that July afternoon as the Secret Service hustled him away, and become a rallying cry for his supporters.

The audience picked up the chant, and Trump paused to soak it in, before saying: “That’s an aggressive youngster. He’s going to go places.”

Apparently he didn’t get a good look at who started the chant.

Trump is repeating his well-worn, racist and false statements about immigration.

He claims he wants to “protect the women of our country” – from immigrants.

He says he is going to protect women “whether they like it or not”.

It is a statement with menacing undertones, given that Trump has boasted about limiting abortion access for women: a procedure that can be key to keeping women safe. He has done this despite the majority of Americans supporting abortion rights.

More than 60% of Americans now believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases.

“We broke Roe v Wade,” Trump has bragged:

Meanwhile Kamala Harris has touched down in Wisconsin, where she will be speaking in 90 minutes’ time.

Her stepdaughter, fashion world darling Ella Emhoff, is with her, per the pool report. In a profile published this week, the New York Times called her the “second daughter of New York’s downtown”.

Trump says he has sold 10,000 black Maga hats – it is unclear whether this is true.

The red Maga hat is the most recognisable Trump supporter accessory, and was the subject – or inciting incident – of a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode.

And more recently:

Trump claims that his profession is “very dangerous” but that if he had to do it again he would, “every time”.

Trump was injured during an assassination attempt in July during which the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed. In September, a second man, Ryan Wesley Routh, was charged with attempted assassination of a major presidential candidate. Authorities said he spent 12 hours camped outside Donald Trump’s golf course before the Secret Service spotted him with a rifle. He pleaded not guilty to attempting to assassinate the former president as well as other federal charges.

Chris Stein

The orange reflective vest Donald Trump is wearing has made him appear even more orange, at least on the Resch Center jumbotron.

Trump’s orange-tinged skin tone is a signature part of his appearance, something the left often mocks, and which the right has mocked back with its “orange man bad” meme directed at liberal outrage.

Trump rarely wears anything but a suit (unless he’s golfing), but is clearly trying to make the most of Joe Biden’s comment yesterday in which the president appeared to describe his supporters as “garbage” – something the White House disputes.

Trump is doing a bit now about being reluctant to wear the vest on stage, wondering whether he could wear it over a suit, and so on.

He says his campaign staff told him it would make him look thinner, at which point he was sold on the idea. That gets laughs and applause from the crowd.

“I may never wear a blue jacket again,” he says.

Chris Stein

The audience in Green Bay’s Resch Center stood up for the first 10 minutes or so of Trump’s speech, but now they’re in their seats.

It’s worth settling in for a Trump speech – they’ve stretched to about the 90-minute mark lately (about the length of a movie) with the ex-president riffing on all kinds of things.

He just played a video of Kamala Harris mentioning his name in her speeches, which draw a huge applause.

Trump plays a recording of about 15 times Kamala Harris has used his name while making speeches during an election in which he is her opponent.

“That’s all she talks about because she and Joe have absolutely no achievements,” Trump says, falsely.

He continues talking about Harris.

Then Trump talks garbage.

One of his advisers said: “Sir, the hottest word right now is garbage.”

He then says his campaign staff managed to organise the garbage truck on short notice, and that he felt uncomfortable driving it while wearing a suit. “And then they said sir, we have a vest.”

Trum says the “most beaautiful words to me” are “religion, number one and love number two”.

He pauses, then says: “and tariffs, number three”.

He has said this before.

Trump is promising to levy tariffs on all imports in a bid to boost American manufacturing, a proposal that economists say would probably mean higher prices for consumers while angering US allies.

The International Monetary Fund warned this week that the tariffs could hurt global growth, as it upgraded its forecast for the UK economy.

The Washington-based organisation said tariffs trigger tit-for-tat trade wars that impoverish the economies involved in the dispute and the wider global economy.

A reminder of what it is Trump is riffing on:

On Tuesday Biden appeared to call supporters of Donald Trump “garbage”.

The president clarified that he didn’t mean Trump supporters, but rather the attitude of a comedian who performed at a Trump rally and made several racist statements – including calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” – towards Latinos. The official transcript had Biden saying: “The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporter’s – his – his – his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it’s un-American.” The comment nevertheless set off echoes of Hillary Clinton’s infamous “basket of deplorables” put-down of a section of Trump’s supporters in 2016.

“And by the way, I want to thank all of our incredible sanitation workers across America,” Trump says, in a continuation of his garbage-truck-driver schtick.