US President Joe Biden is under so much pressure for appearing to refer to Republican Donald Trump’s supporters as “garbage” during an election campaign call.
Speaking in a video call with the nonprofit VotoLatino, Biden addressed the controversy that erupted after one of Trump’s warm-up speakers at a New York rally on Sunday referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage.”
In a statement, the White House said Biden was referring to Trump’s rhetoric, not to his supporters.
Biden’s vice president, Kamala Harris, is locked in a too-close-to-call race against Trump for the White House, with Election Day just one week away.
The comments were seized upon by Trump’s campaign, with the Republican presidential hopeful calling them terrible.
