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The Trump campaign is puzzled why Puerto Ricans don't like being called "garbage".
Donald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem â 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 stateâs Latino voters, particularly nearly 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 Trumpâs rally Tuesday in Allentown, a majority-Latino city with one of the largest Puerto Rican populations in the state. And the arena Trump is speaking at is located in the middle of the cityâs Puerto Rican neighborhood. âItâs spreading like wildfire through the community,â said Norberto Dominguez, a precinct captain with the local Democratic party in Allentown, who noted his own family is half Republican and half Democratic voters.
Trump is speaking at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania. An appropriate protest would be to leave bags of garbage there with TRUMP written on them.
Schools are being closed in Allentown on Tuesday â but not to honor Trump.
And in a sign of how worried local residents are, a school district in Allentown announced Monday morning that it had canceled classes for Tuesday, when Trump visits.
Did the Trump campaign understand that there are over 400,000 people of Puerto Rican descent in Pennsylvania before its orgy of anti-Latino hatred at MSG on Sunday?
âIâm not a Republican, Iâm not a Democrat, Iâm independent,â Lugo said. âBut at this point, itâs not about political, partisan issues. It is about the respect and honor our Puerto Ricans and Latinos deserved as citizens and legal residents of this country, thatâs the issue.â âWe held Trump and his campaign responsible for this disgraceful act,â he added. State Rep. Danilo Burgos, co-chair of the âLatinos con Harrisâ group in Pennsylvania, said residents have spread the comments on social media and within Philadelphiaâs Puerto Rican community. âI saw two ladies in particular saying they were considering voting for Trump, but theyâre not now,â he said, âbecause of the comments.â
When a candidate treats you like garbage, it's only fair to respond in kind.
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