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at Donald Trump ’s Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 27 are already helping turn out Puerto Rican voters who might have otherwise stayed home in this critical swing state.
Pressed to explain why these remarks might resonate with voters who are not already firmly in one corner, when so many other Trump or Trump-related comments have failed to damage him, Shapiro said, “This is my sense from being all over the state: that it broke through, and it resonated in a way with the community, where it made them say, ‘Well, wait a minute, that guy’s not for us. That guy doesn’t respect us.’”State Rep.
Strategists from both major parties are still reeling from a critical moment in Trump’s xenophobia-filled rally on Oct. 27 that, Hinchcliffe, a comedian based in Austin, Texas, described Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.”Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a"floating island of garbage" at Donald Trump's rally in Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Oct. 27.
HuffPost spoke with several Puerto Rican voters outside of a CTown Supermarket on Bethlehem’s south side, across the street from the Puerto Rican Beneficial Society. Pacheco saw Trump’s decision to pose in a garbage truck at a campaign stop in Wisconsin the following day as an additional insult. “If he didn’t have nothing to do with it, what’s he doing in the garbage truck?” Pacheco asked.Sergio Martinez, a warehouse worker from Bethlehem, said he had never voted before and is torn about whether to vote now. He thinks Trump “kept the country strong — as far as economy-wise — and kept the borders a little tighter.
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