Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump made their final addresses to voters before next week’s presidential election.

Trump delivered remarks to reporters Tuesday morning at his private club and residence in Palm Beach, Florida. He opened his comments to reporters at Mar-a-Lago saying Harris is waging a “campaign of destruction” and “of absolute hatred,” accusing his team of “perhaps even trying to destroy our country.”

The former president concluded his remarks without referring to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s controversial comments during his rally in New York last weekend. But he did reference the event in general, calling it “an absolute love fest” in his hometown.

Trump said he doesn’t know the comedian who made vile, racist jokes at his big Madison Square Garden rally, but he also didn’t denounce the comments.

Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during Sunday’s event at Madison Square Garden. His comment drew widespread condemnation and highlighted the growing power of a key Latino group in the swing state of Pennsylvania. He also made degrading jokes about black people, other Latinos, Palestinians and Jews during his routine before Trump’s appearance.

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On Tuesday, Trump attempted to put the controversy behind him and refocus on Harris, criticizing his rival’s record on the border and inflation, saying that “on issue after issue, she broke it” and “I’m going to fix it and fix it.” . It’s very fast.” He did not accept questions from journalists.

In an interview with ABC News early Tuesday, Trump attempted to distance himself from Hinchcliffe but did not denounce what he said.

“I don’t know him. Someone put him there. I don’t know who he is,” Trump said, according to the network, insisting that he had not heard Hinchcliffe’s comments. When asked what he thought of them, Trump “did not take the opportunity to denounce them, repeating that he did not hear the comments,” ABC reported.

Harris’ campaign has launched an ad that will run online in battleground states, targeting Puerto Rican voters and highlighting the comedian’s comments, the Associated Press reported.

The comments earned Harris a show of support from Puerto Rican music star Bad Bunny and sparked reactions from Republicans in Florida and Puerto Rico.

Trump headed to Pennsylvania later in the day for a Building America’s Future event at Drexel and a rally Tuesday night in Allentown.

Kamala Harris vows to put country ‘above self’

Kamala Harris promised on Tuesday to “put the country above the party and above oneself” in the final argument of his presidential campaign, delivering his message from the same place where Donald Trump encouraged he Capitol Insurrectionto emphasize the difficult choices voters face.

a week out of Election dayThe vice president used the speech delivered from the Ellipse, near the White House, to promise Americans that she would work to improve their lives, while arguing that his Republican opponent He’s only in it for himself.

Trump “has spent a decade trying to keep the American people divided and afraid of each other — that’s who he is,” Harris said. “But America, I’m here tonight to say: that’s not who we are.”

She sought to sharpen that contrast by delivering her final speech from the place where Trump on January 6, 2021spewed falsehoods about the 2020 presidential election that inspired a crowd to march on the Capitol and try, unsuccessfully, to stop the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory.

“Look, we know who Donald Trump is. He’s the person who stood in this very place almost four years ago and sent an armed mob to the United States Capitol to overturn the will of the people in a free and fair election,” he said. saying.

Harris did not deliver a treatise on democracy, a staple of President Joe Biden’s own attempts to establish a contrast with Trump. Instead, she aimed to make broader arguments about why voters should reject Trump and consider what she offers, and encouraged the crowd to envision their divergent futures at play on Election Day.

“He has an enemies list of people he intends to prosecute,” Harris said. “He says one of his top priorities is to free the violent extremists who attacked those law enforcement officers on January 6. Donald Trump intends to use the United States military against American citizens who simply disagree with him .People he calls ‘the enemy’ from within.’ “This is not a presidential candidate who is thinking about how to improve his life.”

His campaign drew a large crowd to Washington for the event, with an overflow crowd under the Washington Monument on the National Mall. More importantly, his campaign hopes the setting will help capture the attention of voters in battleground states. who still don’t know who to vote for, or whether to vote or not.

Ahead of Harris’s comments, her campaign organized a speaker lineup of everyday Americans, rather than the stars who have appeared at some of her recent events, or the parade of elected officials who often feature on the campaign agenda. events in Washington. They included Amanda Zurawski, a woman who nearly died of sepsis after being denied medical care under Texas’ strict abortion ban, and Craig Sicknick, brother of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died following the January 6 attack.

Separately, during an interview Tuesday morning, Harris called the decisions of the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post not to endorse the presidential race “disappointing.”

The Democratic presidential candidate made the comment during an interview with Charlamagne tha God, DJ Envy and Loren LoRosa for “The Breakfast Club.”

Harris sought to link decisions to billionaires in the “Donald Trump club.” Both publications are owned by wealthy executives, Jeff Bezos of the Post and Patrick Soon-Shiong of the Times.

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In a post on the social platform Rogan said he firmly believes the conversation is best when it takes place in his studio in Austin, Texas.

He captioned the post: “!!Austin TX podcast or let her walk. What do you think?”

When asked for comment, a Harris campaign official said they were willing to sit down with Rogan when Harris was in Texas last week, but Rogan couldn’t accommodate, according to the Associated Press.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss internal campaign deliberations, told the Associated Press that Rogan was offered the option of joining Harris on the road, but that Rogan has insisted that the conversation be recorded on Austin.

Trump sat down with Rogan for three hours last Friday in Texas.