“I’m going to protect them, whether they like it or not.”

“I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not. I’m going to protect them. I am going to protect them from the immigrants who are coming. “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 his plan for American women this Wednesday at a rally in Green Bay (Wisconsin), where he posed with a garbage truck in response to Joe Biden. Stretched and dressed as a sanitation worker. Criticism for comments against Puerto Rico at an event in New York last Sunday.

Trump acknowledged that his advisers had advised him not to talk about “women’s safety” after comments he made in September. “I pay these guys a lot of money, and I said, ‘Okay, I’m going to do this whether the women like it or not.’ “I’m going to protect them.”

US Vice President Kamala Harris and the Democratic candidates quickly reacted to Trump’s speech. “Donald Trump believes you should be able to make decisions about what you do with your body,” Harris said in a post. “Whether You Like It Or Not.”

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Trump campaign spokeswoman Carolyn Levitt responded, according to nbc: “Harris may be the first female Vice President, but she has implemented dangerously liberal (progressive) policies that have left women worse off economically and much less safe than they were four years ago under President Trump. ”

Levitt criticized the White House policies on immigration, saying, “Women deserve a President who will secure our nation’s borders, remove violent criminals from our neighborhoods and build an economy that supports our families. “And that’s exactly what President Trump will do.” economy.

Harris has focused much of her campaign on protecting reproductive rights following the Supreme Court’s decision that struck down the guarantee doctrine that had been in place since Roe v. Wade. At his rallies he often says he wants to pass a bill that restores protections from the historic Supreme Court case.

Trump’s campaign is trying to win over female voters in a race in which polls in several battleground states show narrow margins.

Trump, who has already been criticized even within Republican ranks for being “overly masculine” and performing poorly among women in recent elections, has taken credit for cutting abortion rights and praised that abortion The issue should be referred to the states. However he has indicated 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 the candidates, with women supporting Harris by a margin of 14 percentage points and men supporting Trump by a margin of 16 points. Have been.

The same poll showed that voters considered abortion to be the issue that challenged them most, with 22% saying they considered it important enough to vote for it alone.

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 people who vote for them are “trash.”

The drama came in response to Joe Biden’s verbal gaffe the night before. Biden has justified himself by claiming that his intention was to condemn a comedian for racist comments at a massive rally held by Trump at New York’s Madison Square Garden over the weekend.

However, Trump and his allies have taken advantage of Biden’s words to argue that Democratic nominee Kamala Harris is not being true to her promise to be a president for all Americans, even those who did not vote for her. Are. On a trip to the city of Green Bay, which is a Republican-leaning area where polls show anyone could win, Trump addressed the issue by ditching his usual pantsuit to deliver a speech and wearing a reflective orange vest. Raised in a stadium full of his red-capped supporters.

“Let me start by saying that 250 million Americans are not trash,” Trump said at the beginning of his nearly 90-minute speech. He did not say how he arrived at the 250 million figure, but it appears to be almost the entire population of the United States 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 his campaign call last night, dishonest Joe Biden finally said what he and Kamala really mean about our supporters. What do I think? He called them garbage. This simply cannot happen”.

Biden’s mistake, another in his nearly four years in office, threatens to complicate Harris’ campaign, her effort to win over Latino voters fueled by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s remarks at a rally at Madison Square Garden last Sunday. Reinforced, in which he stated 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. Gave.

However, Biden gifted the Republican Party a new line of attack when he said on a Zoom call with a Latino voter organization Tuesday night: “The only garbage I see floating around is his followers… .Their demonization.” Latinos consider their supporters unconscionable and un-American.”

The president later clarified that he intended to criticize the “hateful rhetoric” against Latinos seen at Madison Square Garden, but the Trump campaign insisted that Biden was vilifying people who voted for the former president. .

With information from The Guardian