North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum on Sunday dismissed concerns that a comedian’s racist comments about Puerto Rico at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump would affect the election, while criticizing President Joe Biden for comments he made in response to them earlier this week. jokes.
“Trump supporters don’t feel that way,” Burgum said comedian Tony Hinchcliffe did At a rally in New York last weekend, Trump called Puerto Rico a “floating garbage island.”
Burgum Hinchcliffe joked, referring to the reaction in the arena, “The crowd was moaning. I mean, it was not liked by the audience, which was very supportive of Trump.”
The governor compared the two statements, saying that Hinchcliffe was “a comic nobody’s ever heard of” and “the president of the United States calling half the voters in the country trash.”
He was referring to Biden Disclosures about last week’s appeal to Latino voters. Responding to Hinchcliffe’s joke, the president said Puerto Ricans are “good, decent, honorable people.”
He added: “The only rubbish I see floating around is his supporters. His demonization of Latinos is dishonest and un-American. It’s completely against everything we do.”
The White House later clarified Trump said he was talking about the rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally rather than his supporters.
On Sunday, Burgum responded to a clip of Trump calling Harris “the people around him” as “scum” and “garbage.”
At a September rally in Mosinee, Wisconsin, the former president criticized the vice president, saying, “It’s not him, it’s the people around him. They are evil, they are evil and they want to destroy our country. They are absolute garbage.”
Burgum Moderator Kristen Welkere said voters will not be swayed by such comments.
“The analysis of comments over the last seven days is not what will determine the election,” he said.
Burgum added: “This is American politics. This is the season of the last week before the election. As always, there are always many names in the last week. All this has happened before, but I think at the end of the day the voters will decide about their situation.”