NEW YORK: Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump headlined a rally at New York’s Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday (Oct 27) that started with a sequence of vulgar and racist remarks by allies of the previous president.
Trump, a New York celeb for many years, hoped to make use of the occasion on the iconic venue identified for Knicks basketball video games and Billy Joel concert events to ship his closing argument in opposition to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, though the state final backed a Republican presidential candidate in 1984.
“I’d like to start by asking a quite simple query. Are you higher off now than you have been 4 years in the past?” Trump stated at the beginning of his speech. The group shouted: “No.”
He went on to vow that he would cease an “invasion of criminals coming into our nation” if he wins the Nov 5 election, and known as Harris a “very low IQ particular person”.
The record of at the least 20 opening audio system assorted extensively from former professional wrestler Hulk Hogan to former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani to Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr.
A few of Trump’s introductory audio system used racist and misogynistic language to heat up a capability crowd.
Rudy Giuliani, the one-time New York Metropolis mayor and a former private lawyer to Trump, falsely claimed that Harris was “on the aspect of the terrorists” within the Israeli-Palestinian battle and wished to carry Palestinians to america.
Comic Tony Hinchcliffe used crass language in joking that Latinos “love making infants” and known as the Caribbean US territory of Puerto Rico a “floating island of rubbish”.
Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin posted a clip of the feedback on his Instagram and wrote, in Spanish, “That is what they consider us.”
Whereas Puerto Ricans are US residents, these residing on the island can not vote in US normal elections. Nonetheless, tens of millions of Puerto Ricans who’ve moved to the mainland United States can totally take part in elections, and plenty of have taken up residence within the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
