Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign team pounced on Donald Trump» on the protection of women “whether they like it or not”.

The election is less than a week away and the two presidential candidates are both in shock from the fallout of people associated with them comparing people to “trash”.

KamalaHQ, the “official quick response page of Vice President Harris’ presidential campaign,” posted an excerpt of Trump speaking at a rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday evening, in which he said: “They said, ‘Sir, I just think it’s inappropriate for you to say that. I said, ‘Well, I’m going to do it whether the women like it or not.'”

The video was then edited to replay the phrase “whether women like it or not” repeatedly in a split screen with previous headlines from various media outlets about Trump and abortion rights.

These include: “Trump says states could monitor pregnancies to track abortions”, “Trump says states could prosecute women for abortions on his watch” and “Mississippi bans abortion to force rape survivor to 13 years to give birth.”

The former president did say, “I’m going to do it whether women like it or not,” but he was talking about protecting them from “arriving migrants” and “foreign countries,” not abortion.

Speaking of migration, Trump said: “Kamala has imported criminal migrants from jails, prisons, insane asylums and mental institutions around the world, from Venezuela to the Congo, including savage criminals who assault, rape and murder our women and girls. letting monsters kidnap and kill our children has no place anywhere near the Oval Office.

“And my people told me, about four weeks ago, I was saying ‘no, I want to protect the people, I want to protect the women of our country.'” “Sir, please don’t say that. ” ‘For what?’ They said, “We think it’s very inappropriate for you to say this.” » “Why? I’m president, I want to protect the women of our country.” They said, “Sir, I just think it’s inappropriate for you to say that.”

“I pay these guys a lot of money, can you believe it?” he said. “I’m going to do it, whether women like it or not, I’m going to protect them. I’m going to protect them from the migrants that are coming, I’m going to protect them from foreign countries that want to hit us with missiles and a lot of other things.”

Later in his speech, he added: “I will defend and protect women. I won’t let people go up to the suburbs or go to the places where they live, whether it’s the suburbs, the cities or the farms. . We will protect our women. At the border, we will protect our women. And also, we will protect our men and our children.

“Is there a woman in this giant stadium who would like to be unprotected?” This was followed by silence and Trump then asked, “Is there any woman in this stadium who would like to be protected by the president?” This was met with cheers from the crowd.

News week contacted the Harris and Trump campaigns, via email outside of work hours, for comment.

Mass deportations are at the heart of the Republican Party’s 2024 agenda, and Trump has promised that millions of people will be removed from the country once he returns to power. He also vowed to deploy the National Guard to help with evictionsdespite questions about the legal limits of military involvement in enforcing domestic laws. Harris vowed to push for more legal pathways for immigrants if she wins the election, mirroring the president’s efforts Joe Biden offer green cards to undocumented immigrants who have been in the country for over a decade.

The number of suspected detentions of illegal immigrants has increased in recent years, although according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection data, the the figure has since fallen and was 30% lower in April 2024 than in April 2023.

The Cato Institute, which promotes individual liberty, limited government and free markets, released a research paper earlier this year titled “Illegal Immigrant Murders in Texas, 2013-2022,” using figures obtained from the department of Texas Public Safety. The study concluded that between 2013 and 2022, legal and illegal immigrants were 61% and 26% less likely, respectively, to be convicted of homicide than native-born Americans.

Analysis of recently released data by the U.S. Census Bureau’s Pew Research Center found that 96 percent of Trump supporters and 80 percent of likely Harris voters favored Trump. in favor of strengthening security measures on the US-Mexico border.

On Tuesday, President Joe Biden appeared call Trump supporters ‘trash’ in response to comedian Tony Hinchcliffe calling Puerto Rico a “Floating Garbage Island” during the former president’s rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday.

Talk to Information week, White House spokesman Andrew Bates insisted that Biden was targeting the “hateful rhetoric that came out of the Madison Square Garden rally,” rather than referring to Trump supporters collectively.

Trump said Biden’s comments were “terrible” and has since said ABCA senior congressional correspondent, he doesn’t know Hinchcliffe. “Someone put him up there, I don’t know who he is,” Trump said.