What Mexico's new president Claudia Sheinbaum said about Trump after he warned migrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country'

Mexico's new president Claudia Sheinbaum has said she thinks her relationship 'will be good' with whoever wins the 2024 US election, whether it's Donald Trump or Joe Biden.

That's despite former President Trump saying last year for the second time that immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country.'

Sheinbaum, who is Jewish, will become the first female president of Mexico after the National Electoral Institute's president said she had between 58.3 percent and 60.7 percent of the vote, the Associated Press reported.

Sheinbaum will succeed her mentor, President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a populist who has expanded social programs but largely failed to reduce cartel violence in Mexico.

Sheinbaum, the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City, made her comments about Trump last month on Bloomberg TV.

Presidential candidate of the ruling Morena party Claudia Sheinbaum, gestures while addressing her supporters after winning the presidential election, at Zocalo Square in Mexico City, Mexico on June 3, 2024

Sheinbaum told Bloomberg TV that like outgoing President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, she will maintain a 'good relationship' with former President Donald Trump if he were to be sent back to the White House come next January

'Yes, I think it will be good, whether President Biden or President Trump wins,' Sheinbaum said in Spanish.

'We have very strong economic integration with the United States. We are now the principal trading partner, and that requires us to have a good relationship.'

Second only to Canada, Mexico is a huge trading partner with the US, buying $324.3 billion worth of American exported goods in 2022, according to the Office of the US Trade Representative.

The US-Mexico-Canada free trade agreement entered into force on July 1, 2020 and was ushered in by Trump, Obrador and Justin Trudeau in 2018.

'President López Obrador in the end had a good relationship with Trump and I don't see why we wouldn't be able to have it as well,' Sheinbaum told the BBC recently.

At this speech in Waterloo, Iowa, Trump said immigrants are 'poisoning the blood of our country' and denied comparisons to Adolf Hitler

At the same time, the then-frontrunner added that 'discriminatory discourse' about Mexicans abroad isn't something she would tolerate.

'Now, I think that obviously we are always going to defend Mexicans abroad. We are not in favor of any discriminatory discourse, but there is going to be a good relationship.'

Sheinbaum's election to a six year term comes as immigration is looking to be a top issue in the American presidential election, with Trump routinely attacking Biden's border policies. 

Biden is responding by preparing to enact an immigration-related executive order this week, despite previously saying he needed Congressional approval to stem the flow of record-breaking illegal crossings into the US.

Encounters at the US-Mexico border have come down substantially from December's record highs, but they still remain elevated from before Biden took office in 2021, according to Customs and Border Patrol.