2024 presidential election updates: With one week to go, Kamala Harris speaks at Washington’s Ellipse, Trump stumps in Pennsylvania

President Joe Biden has drawn fire from Republicans for comments he made during a Voto Latino campaign call Tuesday night — when his language appeared to refer to former President Donald Trump’s supporters as “trash.”

“Recently, a speaker at his rally called Puerto Rico a ‘floating island of trash,’” Biden said, according to a video clip on CNN.

He then called Puerto Ricans “good, decent, honorable people” before adding, “The only trash I see floating out there are his supporters.”

The comment was followed by: “His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American. It is completely inconsistent with everything we have done, everything we have been.”

Republicans quickly pounced on the comment, comparing it to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 “basket of deplorables” comment.

Senator Marco Rubio broke the news to Trump on stage while campaigning in Allentown, Philadelphia.

Trump responded: “Remember, Hilary said ‘deplorable.'”

“That didn’t work,” he continued. “I think ‘Garbage’ is worse, right?”

Karoline Leavitt, the Trump Campaign’s national press secretary, responded by saying: “Joe Biden and Kamala Harris hate America and don’t deserve four more years. Kamala must be held accountable for this shameful attack on tens of millions of Americans.”

The new controversy comes a week after the election, and on the night Vice President Kamala Harris delivered her closing campaign message at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C.

“The President called the hateful rhetoric at the Madison Square Garden rally ‘trash,'” a White House spokesperson said in a statement.

A transcript of the White House remarks given to ABC News has an apostrophe at the end of “supporter’s,” but it is unclear from the video of Biden’s remarks whether the president meant that word in the possessive.

A spokesperson for Harris’ campaign referred ABC News to the official White House statement.

Biden responded shortly after with a message to

-Justin R. Gomez of ABC News