SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden He returned to his hometown in Pennsylvania and made his final campaign stop for Vice President on Saturday Kamala Harris and let’s let loose again – deliver unfiltered political emotion has become quite common in recent weeks.

Biden criticized Harris’ rival, former Republican President Donald Trumpand his supporters spoke on policy issues during a speech in Scranton, but then suggested that he would respond — literally — to fake “macho men.”

“There’s one more thing Trump and his Republican friends want to do. “They want a huge tax cut for the rich,” Biden told the local chapter of the carpenters union. He then added: “Now, I know some of you tend to think these are macho men,” apparently referring to people who support Trump.

Biden continued: “I’ll tell you this, man, when I was in Scranton we would have a little trouble getting into the plot every once in a while.” “These are the kind of guys whose ass you want to spank.”

During a rally in North Carolina on Saturday night, Trump mocked Biden and asked the crowd, “I don’t even know, is he still around?” he asked.

Biden’s comment in Scranton drew laughter from the crowd. But this was another moment when he deviated from the political script; That’s something that’s happening to the president a lot these days — even though he played a decidedly limited role in promoting Harris and made a few stops for the campaign. once a running mate.

Earlier this week, Biden caused an uproar when he responded to the following question: Racist comments at Trump’s last rally Made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, Who referred to the US island territory of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage”.

“The only garbage I see floating out there are his supporters,” Biden said in response.

White House press officials changed the official transcript Biden’s remarks are drawing objections from federal workers who are relaying what the president said for posterity, according to two U.S. government officials and an internal email obtained by The Associated Press.

And the reference to “garbage” also came during Biden’s recent visit to a campaign office in New Hampshire. Trump said“We should lock him up,” he said, then quickly changed his comments to indicate that he meant Democrats should “lock him up politically.”

In his speech in Scranton on Saturday, Biden offered traditional advice to attendees to vote, saying they should do so “for yourself and your family, the people you grew up with, the people you came from.”

“Don’t forget where you came from,” Biden boomed at one point to shouts and applause. “Don’t leave behind the people you grew up with.”

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Weissert reported from Washington.