GOP vice presidential nominee JD Vance at a Wausau rally said people “have to stop getting so offended at every little thing” after a speaker at a Trump-Vance campaign rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
Meanwhile, Dem vice presidential candidate Tim Walz slammed Donald Trump for “trash talking” the U.S.
Trump’s campaign has drawn backlash after a comedian and other speakers made racist comments while speaking at the former president’s Madison Square Garden rally in New York yesterday.
Vance, who also spoke at the six-hour-long rally, said Monday he’s heard about the joke but hadn’t seen it. He argued Americans are “sick of distractions and sick of the BS.”
“Maybe it’s a stupid, racist joke, as you said, maybe not. I haven’t seen it,” the Ohio senator said, while speaking to a reporter. “I’m not going to comment on the specifics of the joke, but I think that we have to stop getting so offended at every little thing in the United States of America. I’m just, I’m so over it.”
Vance spoke to supporters at the Wausau Downtown Airport before taking questions from reporters in attendance.
At several points, Vance charged Vice President Kamala Harris with equating Trump supporters to Nazis, saying it’s “telling” that Harris’ “closing message is essentially that all of Donald Trump’s voters are Nazis.”
Vance said he looked up a photo of Americans storming the beaches of Normandy during World War II. Vance said those Americans wouldn’t want “taxpayer-funded gender transition surgeries” or to “open up the American southern border.”
“They wanted common sense, they wanted freedom, they wanted liberty. They wanted somebody who would protect the Constitution,” Vance said. “How dare Kamala Harris call her fellow citizens Nazis for loving this country enough to call her a bad vice president? And that’s exactly what she is.”
Vance also said that until Monday, he “didn’t realize” the margin between Trump and Biden was so small in 2020.
“This state was decided by 0.63%, that’s 20,000 votes, and that could very well be the difference — frankly, it could be even smaller than that — the difference between President Donald Trump and President Kamala Harris,” Vance said.
Vance also said he feels “very good” about winning Wisconsin next week.
“It’s not just because (of) some of the early vote numbers that we’re seeing, it’s not just because, you know, there is, I think, some real enthusiasm that we’re seeing on the ground here in Wisconsin,” Vance said. “It’s that I think people in Wisconsin are people of common sense, and they’re fed up with the garbage.”
Walz in Manitowoc called Trump’s comments about the U.S. an “unpatriotic scam.”
Trump in Arizona last week called the U.S. a “dumping ground” and “the garbage can for the world” in a speech criticizing the Biden-Harris administration for its handling of the border.
Walz slammed Trump for his words, and said the American people should be “fed up” with Trump’s “trash talking.”
Walz, speaking at the Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry, then knocked the former president for his relationship with China’s Xi Jinping, saying Trump “loves” the Chinese president despite telling the American people he is “tough on China.”
“By the end of his presidency, he had wiped out more than half of the manufacturing jobs that have been created in the previous decade,” Walz said. “He was asleep at the wheel while China seeks the advantage, and now he says we should just let China dominate the industries of the future. That’s who this guy is.”
Walz said if Trump is elected in November, he will implement the Heritage Foundation’s conservative political initative, Project 2025, and it will be a “God damn nightmare for American workers.”
“It undermines our system, it undermines unions, it undermines the middle class,” Walz said.
Walz said Trump would repeal the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. He called the law the “best things that we’ve done since the Eisenhower Interstate System.”
Walz said Kamala Harris would create an American-forward strategy for manufacturing and “cut the red tape to unleash American potential and industry.” He also said Harris would create a tax credit that ramps up investments to create more jobs in strategic industries and implement tax cuts that reward companies that guarantee the right of workers to organize into unions.
Ahead of Walz’ visit, state GOP Chair Brian Schimming said Walz and Harris have “nothing to offer but a repeat of the failed Biden administration.”
“Try as he may, Tim Walz cannot explain away or distract voters from the last four years of high inflation, open borders, and conflict overseas,” Schimming said.
Walz also made a stop in Waukesha. Monday marked Walz’s seventh trip to Wisconsin since he was formally nominated for vice president.
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