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JD Vance refers to Kamala Harris as 'trash' while speaking in Atlanta

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Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, speaks during a campaign rally in Newtown, Pa.

Ohio Sen. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate, has referred to Kamala Harris as “trash.”

Speaking on Monday in Atlanta, Vance ripped Harris by referencing a comment made by President Joe Biden suggesting that Trump supporters were “garbage.” Biden, in turn, was responding to a joke by comic Tony Hinchcliffe at Trump’s recent Madison Square Garden rally in which Hinchcliffe likened Puerto Rico to a “floating island of garbage.”

The Trump campaign has faced days of criticism from Harris allies over Hinchcliffe’s joke. It has focused on Biden’s reference to Trump supporters instead.

Vance told the Atlanta audience that Americans should not be called “garbage” for supporting border restrictions or “wanting to be able to afford groceries.”

“In two days, we are going to take out the trash in Washington, D.C., and the trash’s name is Kamala Harris,” he said.

The comment stirred anger among Harris allies online. Levar Stoney, the mayor of Richmond, Virginia, said Vance had “made one of the worst mistakes of his political career.”

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