Trump fans in Wisconsin are angry over Biden’s ‘garbage’ commentspublished at 19:49 Greenwich Mean Time 30 October
Mike Wendling
Reporting from Wisconsin
Anne Driessen came prepared.
Overhearing me talking to other Donald Trump supporters waiting in line to get into a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, she pulls out a black trash bag and waves it around.
It’s a reference to Joe Biden’s comments about Trump supporters being “garbage” – and it’s made her furious.
“We’re accustomed to this from the other side,” she says, referring to the Democrats. “He’s been called Stalin, Hitler, and Mussolini – why don’t they just call him Satan?”
“They lump us all together too,” she says.
It’s an “us vs them” sentiment that I hear from several voters waiting in line to hear their candidate – they see hatred and fury coming at them from the other side.
“It’s not OK” to use words like “garbage” says a woman who will only identify herself as Ash.
“We’re not all the same, and a lot of us are politically moderate… but I feel like more of the insults are coming from that [other side],” she says.
Biden was accused of calling Trump supporters “garbage” on Tuesday evening, but the White House has said he was referring to comic Tony Hinchcliffe, who ignited controversy by calling Puerto Rico, a US territory, an “island of garbage” during a Trump rally.
Harris has distanced herself from the comments, saying she disagrees with criticising people based on who they vote for.