Trump and Vance hurl insults at Pelosi and Harris at closing rallies

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Former President Donald Trump hurled insults at former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi at his campaign rally in Michigan that stretched into early Tuesday, while his running mate Sen. JD Vance described Vice President Kamala Harris as “garbage” at an earlier meeting Monday night — offering a sharp contrast from the Democratic candidate’s more upbeat closing message calling for a “fresh start” for America.

Key facts

At his last meeting, Trump said Pelosi was an “evil, sick, crazy bi—” before stopping himself and saying, “It starts with a B… I want to say that.”

Trump too the attack Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., calls him “guard Schiff” and says, “I call him pencil neck.”

The former president repeatedly described Democrats as “evil” and “sick” in his closing speech and told his supporters that if he lost the election, “we’ll only have you to blame.”

At one of his last rallies Monday night, Vance attacked Harris, saying “in two days we’re taking out the trash in Washington, DC, and the trash is named Kamala Harris.”

Vance began his attack by saying that “the citizens of this country, they’re not trash because they think you’re doing a bad job,” in an attempt to connect a comment made by President Joe Biden to Harris ‘ campaign.

Vance’s comments were another attempt by the Trump campaign to turn the “garbage” controversy against Biden after they faced strong backlash over comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s remark at a Trump rally calling Puerto Rico a “floating lake of garbage. “

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Chief critic

MSNBC host Nicole Wallace played clip of Vance calling Harris “garbage” on her show Monday night and saying, “You can disagree with us (women)

we’ve actually learned to take it throughout our careers…But you call us trash…JD Vance, you just got upset in a way I’ve never seen in my political life and I worked for Sarah Palin .”

Crucial quote

In contrast, Harris struck a more optimistic tone in his closing speech, saying, “We have an opportunity in this election to finally turn the page on a decade of politics that has been driven by fear and division. We’re done with it … and we are exhausted with it. America is ready for a fresh start.”

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