As Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz call for party unity and a “new generation of leadership in America,” former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance spread the same hateful and violent rhetoric on election night that carried them to the campaign trail have. I did that throughout the Trump campaign.

As the Republican vice presidential nominee told the crowd in Atlanta on Monday night, “In two days we're going to take out the trash in Washington, D.C., and the trash's name is Kamala Harris.”

Vance's comments are part of a concerted effort by Trump and his allies to divert attention from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe's racist slurs at Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden earlier this month. During the MSG event, Hinchcliffe referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of trash,” prompting widespread backlash from prominent leaders in the Puerto Rican community.

Since then, the Trump campaign has seized on a comment from President Joe Biden, prompting Republicans to accuse the president of calling Trump supporters “trash.” The White House denied the claims in a statement and released a full transcript of the comment with an apostrophe with “supporter,” suggesting that Biden had called Hinchcliffe's “demonization of Latinos” “garbage.” However, the Associated Press later said that White House press officials had changed the official protocol.

Last week, Trump tried to echo Biden's comments by bizarrely dressing up as a garbage truck driver and climbing into the passenger seat of a garbage truck.

Elsewhere on Monday, during a rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, Trump – who has repeatedly objectified women, spread misogynistic rhetoric and been blamed for the sexual abuse and defamation of E. Jean Carroll – escalated his violent comments against women and suggested Harris gets into the ring with boxer Mike Tyson.

“Get Mike in the ring with Kamala. “That will be interesting,” Trump told his crowd of supporters.

Speaking to a crowd in North Carolina today, Trump said Michelle Obama had “beaten” him and that he had asked his advisers if he could “beat her now.”

“I would actually like to hit back,” he continued. “But we’re going to stick it out for a while.”