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Harris' full speech at The Ellipse in DC
Watch Kamala Harris' closing argument to voters in her speech at The Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
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2024 election updates: Biden angers GOP associating 'garbage' with Trump supporters
Last updated: Wednesday, October 30, 2024 1:02PM GMT
As the race reached one week until Election Day, Kamala Harris delivered her "closing argument" on The Ellipse -- in the same spot where Donald Trump allied his supporters on Jan. 6, 2021, to march on the U.S. Capitol nearby.
Trump tried to preempt Harris's remarks, speaking to reporters Tuesday morning at Mar-a-Lago after declaring he's "the opposite of a Nazi" on Monday night in Georgia.
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Oct 30, 2024, 10:50 AM
More than 53 million Americans have voted early
As of 11:59 p.m. ET on Tuesday, more than 53 million Americans have voted early, according to the Election Lab at the University of Florida.
Of the total number of early votes, 27,765,237 were cast in person and 25,686,627 were returned by mail
There is now just one week until Election Day.
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Harris closes her speech with a final appeal to voters
Vice President Kamala Harris urged voters Tuesday to "start writing the next chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told" by rejecting former President Donald Trump.
"The United States of America is the greatest idea humanity ever devised," Harris said. "In seven days, we have the power, each of you has the power, to turn the page, and start writing the next chapter in the most extraordinary story ever told," she added.
9:51 AM GMT
Biden angers Republicans by associating 'garbage' with Trump supporters
President Joe Biden has drawn fire from Republicans due to comments he made at a Voto Latino campaign call Tuesday night -- when his wording seemed to be referring to the supporters of former President Donald Trump as "garbage."
"Just the other day, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage,'" Biden said, according to a video clip on CNN.
He went on to call Puerto Ricans "good, decent, honorable people" before adding, "The only garbage I see floating out there is his supporters."
The comment was followed by: "His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable, and it's un-American. It's totally contrary to everything we've done, everything we've been."
Republicans quickly pounced on the comment, comparing it to Hillary Clinton's "basket of deplorables" comment in 2016.
Sen. Marco Rubio broke the news to Trump onstage as he campaigned in Allentown, Philadelphia.
Trump responded, "Remember, Hilary said 'deplorable.'"
"That didn't work out," he continued. "'Garbage' I think is worse, right?"
Trump Campaign National Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt responded by saying, "Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hate America and don't deserve four more years. Kamala must answer for this disgraceful attack on tens of millions of Americans."
The new controversy comes one week out from the election, and on the night that Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her closing campaign message on the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.
"The President referred to the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally as 'garbage,'" a White House spokesperson said in a statement.
A transcript of the remarks given to ABC News by the White House has an apostrophe at the end of "supporter's," but it is unclear from the video of Biden's remarks whether the president meant that word in the possessive.
A spokesman for Harris' campaign referred ABC News to the White House's official statement.
Biden responded shortly afterward with a post on X, saying that it was specifically the "hateful rhetoric about Puerto Rico spewed by Trump's supporter" that he was calling "garbage."
-ABC News' Justin R. Gomez
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Trump claims the Harris campaign bused people to Washington rally
Trump claimed during his rally in Allentown that the Harris campaign had bused people to Washington "because they couldn't get anybody to show up there tonight."
The Harris campaign touted that more than 75,000 people had gathered on the National Mall for Harris' remarks tonight at the same venue where Trump spoke ahead of the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
