A large group of President Donald Trump supporters drowned out Joe Biden’s drive-in campaign rally in Minnesota on Friday night, Oct. 30, prompting the Democratic presidential candidate to lash out at them as “ugly folks.”
Photojournalist Rebecca Brannon shared a sequence of videos on Twitter, describing Biden holding the rally in a “vast empty parking lot” in St. Paul, Minnesota, while President Trump supporters got pretty close to him and filled his event with loud noise.
A view of the vast empty parking lot ahead of the Joe Biden campaign event in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Very few cars. pic.twitter.com/RS1vLElGlK
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) October 30, 2020
Minnesota Trump supporters growing in size outside vast empty parking lot holding Biden Event. pic.twitter.com/rwbXhiQUKp
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) October 30, 2020
Large crowd of Trump supporters still growing as they can celebrate directly outside Biden event in St. Paul, Minnesota pic.twitter.com/MV4OUOQ89d
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) October 30, 2020
The next videos displayed Biden drew out more Trump supporters than his own, and they interrupted Biden’s speech.
Joe Biden being drowned out by Minnesota Trump supporters right now. pic.twitter.com/gN4Y5Xcohq
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) October 30, 2020
Minnesota Trump supporters are disrupting Joe Biden speaking right now I’m St. Paul. pic.twitter.com/kjkhDs1eI1
— Rebecca Brannon (@RebsBrannon) October 30, 2020
Throughout his speech, Biden seemed to speak over the noise made by the group of Trump supporters.
When the former vice president ripped the Trump administration’s response to the CCP Virus (coronavirus) pandemic and tried to explain his support for a nationwide mask mandate, the noise became too much, and he appeared to grow irritated and lashed out at them as “ugly folks.”
“These guys are not very polite but they’re like Trump,” Biden said. “Dr. [Anthony] Fauci called for a mask mandate last week. This isn’t a political statement like those ugly folks over there beeping the horns. This is a patriotic duty, for God’s sake.”
Listen to the cars honking at Biden’s event in St. Paul, Minnesota while he’s yelling at the top of his lungs, trying to give us all headaches.
But then it gets worse as he attacks Trump supporters as “ugly folks.”
Talk about a guy who says he’d represent all Americans! 🙄 pic.twitter.com/ofbIauZxfX
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) October 30, 2020
Biden claimed that the Republican president has “given up” on containing the virus, and said he would focus on “bringing the country together around testing, tracing and masking” to contain the pandemic.
A week earlier, when Biden held a campaign event in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, his venue appeared to have less supporters than Trump’s, which made it difficult for the Democrat candidate to focus on his speech, then he lashed out and called them “chumps.”
