On the one hand the endorsement of a "renegade" republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger, which formalizes its own support for Kamala Harris rather than providing support to Donald Trump, despite the political colors: like him, many others moderate conservatives this time they decided to change sides and cheer for Harris. So be it. On the other hand, however, it materializes like a bolt from the blue (almost) Joe Biden's gaffe which risks turning out to be a real boomerang for Harris herself. It all happens in the space of a few hours: here's what happened.
Schwarzenegger, the endorsement in favor of Kamala Harris
Former California Governor, Schwarzenegger, will in fact give its support to Vice President Harris and the Governor Tim Walz, running for the US presidential elections 2024The actor himself said this in a post on X in which he criticized Donald Trump's remarks at a rally onAmerica “trash”. “For someone like me, who talks to people all over the world, calling America a garbage dump is so unpatriotic that makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I’m a Republican. That’s why, this week, I’m voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz,” he said.
According to the actor, another Trump term would make people “more angry, more divided, more hateful.” “I want to move forward as a country, and while I have a lot of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.” Schwarzenegger has always been openly critical of Trump. After the January 6, 2021 insurrection, he said the former president will be remembered as the worst in US history and urgedunity among Americans.
Biden's gaffe backfires on Kamala Harris?
But it is precisely on the issue of "garbage" that the Democrats score an own goal, with an outburst by Joe Biden that greatly irritates the Dems and offers the Republicans a golden opportunity to make forget the racist insults against Puerto Rico and the “latinos”.
What happened, in fact, is that returning to the racist joke by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe against Puerto Rico “garbage island” pronounced at the tycoon’s rally in New York, President Biden replied: “The only garbage I see floating out there are his supporters.”
A decidedly unfortunate exit that brought to mind that of Hillary Clinton in 2016, when he defined the tycoon's voters as "deplorable" and, perhaps also for this reason, the victory was played. The The White House immediately tried to take cover providing accredited journalists with the transcription of the president's words, who did not mean to refer to "supporters", plural, but to a single "supporter", namely the comedian "whose" he sees "floating garbage", with the Saxon genitive at the end of the word under accusation, the "s" preceded by the apostrophe indicating possession. Biden himself later tried to correct his shot on X. "Today I spoke about a Trump supporter's rhetoric on Puerto Rico by calling it garbage. That's the only word I can think of to describe it, that's what I meant." However, the damage is done: it remains to be seen if and how much it will affect the mood of the voters the next 5th November.
