Doug Burgum attacks Biden for ‘garbage’ comments but downplays similar Trump remarks
North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum on Sunday dismissed concerns that a comedian’s racist remarks about Puerto Rico at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump would affect the election, while also blasting President Joe Biden for comments he made earlier this week when responding to those jokes.
North Dakota Republican Gov. Doug Burgum on Sunday dismissed concerns that a comedian’s racist remarks about Puerto Rico at a campaign rally for former President Donald Trump would affect the election, while also blasting President Joe Biden for comments he made earlier this week when responding to those jokes.
“This is not how Trump supporters feel,” Burgum said about a joke comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made at a Trump rally in New York last weekend in which he called Puerto Rico “a floating island of garbage.”
Burgum pointed to the reaction in the arena when Hinchcliffe made the joke, saying, “The crowd was groaning. I mean, there was not approval from a very supportive Trump audience.”
The governor compared the two remarks, saying that Hinchcliffe was a “comic that no one’s ever heard of” versus “the president of the United States calling half the voters in the country garbage.”
He was referring to Biden’s remarks last week on a Latino voter outreach call. Responding to Hinchcliffe’s joke, the president said Puerto Ricans are “good, decent, honorable people.”
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