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Photos show the biggest moments of the 2024 election so far
October 31, 20240
Vance and Walz faced off in the vice presidential debate in October.
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At the October rally, Tucker Carlson mocked Harris and said she would be “the first Samoan-Malaysian, low-IQ, former California prosecutor ever to be elected president,” and radio host Sid Rosenberg called Democrats “a bunch of degenerates, lowlives, Jew-haters and lowlives.”
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe garnered the most controversy when he referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.” Hinchcliffe sparked so much outrage that the Trump campaign released a statement saying, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”
The insult appeared to prompt Puerto Rican celebrities Jennifer Lopez and Bad Bunny to endorse Harris.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Walz also condemned Hinchcliffe’s remarks on a Twitch stream.
“What is trash is people actually just thinking of other human beings that way,” Ocasio-Cortez said.
Hinchcliffe shared a clip from the Twitch stream on X and wrote, “These people have no sense of humor. Wild that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his ‘busy schedule’ to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it seem racist. I love Puerto Rico and vacation there. I made fun of everyone…watch the whole set. I’m a comedian Tim…might be time to change your tampon.”
Representatives for Hinchcliffe did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
A week before the election, a crowd of 75,000 people watched Harris speak from the Ellipse in what her campaign called her “closing argument.”
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Harris underscored the significance of speaking from the Ellipse in Washington, DC, where she said Trump “sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election, an election that he knew he lost” on January 6, 2021.
Harris also said that while Trump would enter the White House “with an enemies list,” she would “walk in with a to-do list.”
“We have to stop pointing fingers and start locking arms,” she said. “It is time to turn the page on the drama and the conflict, the fear and division. It is time for a new generation of leadership in America. I am ready to offer that leadership as the next president of the United States of America.”