Getty Trump intro speaker jokes about death of Clinton, Sanders

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A speaker introducing Donald Trump at a campaign rally jokingly suggested that the drowning of Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders would be good for the country on Tuesday evening.

“If Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are on a boat together — if they’re on a boat together and it sinks. Who survives? America!” said local attorney David Chavez in introductory remarks at Trump’s rally.


Chavez, a former member of the New Mexico House of Representatives, also cracked of the former secretary of state, "Even Bill Clinton chose other women, so you should, too."

Trump and his surrogates have been criticized for the violent tinge of some of their rhetoric, including Trump’s repeated remarks onstage at rallies that he would like to punch protesters in the face.