Trump’s Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvania

Donald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem — in Pennsylvania.

Many Puerto Rican voters in the state are furious about racist and demeaning comments delivered at a Trump rally. Some say their dismay is giving Kamala Harris a new opening to win over the state’s Latino voters, particularlynearly half a million Pennsylvanians of Puerto Rican descent.

Evidence of the backlash was immediate on Monday: A nonpartisan Puerto Rican group drafted a letter urging its members to oppose Trump on election day. Other Puerto Rican voters were lighting up WhatsApp chats with reactions to the vulgar display and raising it in morning conversations at their bodegas. Some are planning to protest Trump’s rally Tuesday in Allentown, a majority-Latino city with one of the largest Puerto Rican populations in the state.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-puerto-rico-fallout-spreading-223911987.html

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ElwoodBlues · M

It's going viral!!

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ElwoodBlues · M

@Mamapolo2016 How about 1 week of virality; then he fades back into well-deserved obscurity.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@ElwoodBlues I don’t know how he chewed the wires enough to get on the stage. Actual vermin.

ElwoodBlues · M

@Mamapolo2016 Actual vermin, sure. Also, his brand of "humor" appeals to the tRump crowd. They didn't give those time slots and that exposure to just anybody. The vermin was selected. Trumpters just failed to anticipate how badly it would backfire.

P.S. 8% of Pennsylvania and 5.6% of Florida is of Puerto Rican extraction. Another 2.4% of Florida is Haitian. Those add up to a "swing demographic" in two large states!!