Trump forced to 'waste a campaign day' to clean up 'massive dumpster fire': ex-aide
Donald Trump was forced to burn one of his final days on the campaign trail cleaning up the lingering stench from his Madison Square Garden rally, said one of his former White House aides.
The former president rallied Thursday in New Mexico, which no Republican presidential candidate has won since 2004, and explicitly said he was there to pander to Latino and Hispanic voters.
“I’m here for one very simple reason,” Trump told the crowd in Albuquerque. “I like you very much, and it’s good for my credentials with the Hispanic or Latino community.”
Former White House director of strategic communications Alyssa Farah Griffin told CNN the visit was necessary after speakers at last weekend's rally infuriated and offended those voters and many others.
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"Well, I do think it was kind of a waste of a campaign day," Griffin said. "He's not winning New Mexico, but to even just go before a Latino community and say, 'I need to be here for the credentials,' that's not a winning strategy. His campaign massively stepped in it in this dumpster fire of a Madison Square Garden rally. Yes, there was the comedian who made the slur about Puerto Ricans, but Donald Trump's also been calling America a garbage can, and I think that that's something that the Harris campaign has seized on, they're pushing back on. It's a deeply, like, unpatriotic message that he's delivering, and he really has failed to kind of harness this closing message."
The contrast with Kamala Harris' message is stark in the closing days of the race, Griffin said.
"She's made it pretty clear – she went to the Ellipse, she talked about the economy, but the threats to democracy," Griffin said. "I could not tell you what Donald Trump's closing message is. It's something between insulting migrants telling women they don't get to decide what they do with their bodies, and threatening Liz Cheney. That seems to be the closing message for Donald Trump."
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