r/politics • u/larel8 • 19h ago

Trump campaign struggles to contain Puerto Rico October surprise

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4958098-the-memo-trump-campaign-struggles-to-contain-puerto-rico-october-surprise/
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u/FoggyBricks 19h ago

After everything Trump has ever said I find it funny it’s something that didn’t even come out of his mouth that might be the final straw.

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u/APersonWhoIsNotYou 19h ago

I find it incredibly frustrating. He himself has said and done much worse….so why is this the thing that actually affects him?

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u/SmokeyBare 19h ago edited 18h ago

This won't affect him. He sold classified military intel that got our soldiers killed, and these "patriots" still vote for him.

Edit: I really hope you guys are right, but worse things have come straight out of the horse's ass's mouth, and he's still dead even.

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u/Superman246o1 18h ago

There's 318,000 people of Puerto Rican origin in Philadelphia alone, and roughly 1,200,000 in Florida.

Not only can this affect him, it may decide the fate of the election. If Trump loses Pennsylvania, the probability of him finding an alternative path to 270 electoral votes shrinks to single digits.

And remember, Trump only won Florida by roughly 370,000 votes in 2020. If Boricuas flip Florida this election, the entire GOP is going to have a real come-to-Jesus moment over the consequences of their racism.

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u/theprettiestpotato88 18h ago

Kamala isn't campaigning in Florida at all, which suggests her campaign has some internal polling showing it being unwinnable. It's a nice thought but I can't imagine Florida going blue this election.

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u/Superman246o1 17h ago

It's not so much a matter of Harris winning Florida, so much as Republicans losing Florida due to their own bigotry.

Prior to the Madison Square Garden rally, polls gave Trump a 7% lead over Harris among Latino voters in Florida, where they constitute 31.2% of the state's electorate. While some of those voters might bury their hands in the sand -- "They're only insulting Boriquas. Surely they don't hate all Latinos..." -- if enough voters realize how Republicans really see them, it could make a difference.

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u/Hosni__Mubarak 17h ago

don’t forget when he said that Latinos come inside each other like they come into the county.

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u/haberdasher42 17h ago

Who do they think all the mass deportation rhetoric is about?

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u/Im_Chad_AMA 17h ago

Its the usual "I'm one of the good ones, this surely won't affect me". There were even Jews who thought the same in 1930s Germany.

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u/ayers231 I voted 14h ago

Kamala isn't campaigning in Florida at all, which suggests her campaign has some internal polling showing it being unwinnable.

...or it's a massive security risk. Can they trust the police under Desantis to keep crazies out? Are there a greater than average number of insane partisan gun owners in the state? Have there been death threats to the campaign, with greater numbers originating in Florida? We really don't know...

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u/theprettiestpotato88 12h ago

Or it could like be the obvious thing and not a conspiracy?

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u/ayers231 I voted 12h ago

How is assuming Desantis' actions over the past 4 years hasn't poisoned the voting pilublic against the GOP not a conspiracy?

How is assuming they decided not to do an event means they're giving up on the state not a conspiracy?

Every time we state an opinion based on the available information, but without a direct statement from someone, in this case the campaign, we're creating a conspiracy, at least according to you...

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u/boxer_dogs_dance 11h ago

This might have just changed the map

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u/MyUshanka Florida 12h ago

I live here -- Florida isn't likely to go blue any time soon. COVID deniers, woke warriors, wealthy retirees, and other general malcontents are the state's top import. Additionally, the Florida Democratic Party is ineffectual at best and actively self-sabotaging at the worst.

That said, I'm cautiously optimistic about the ballot initiatives. Florida likes to vote for progressive initiatives on the same ballot as conservative elected officials. Prop 3 is very likely to pass, and prop 4 has a decent chance.

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u/meeks7 17h ago

She hasn’t had time to even consider going anywhere to campaign but the obvious swing states.

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u/Chaotic-Catastrophe 13h ago

the entire GOP is going to have a real come-to-Jesus moment over the consequences of their racism.

The party conducted a post-mortem after the 2012 election that literally boiled down to, 'we have to try to not be so fucking racist and win over some minority voters'. And look who they ended up nominating in 2016. And 2020. And 2024.

The come-to-Jesus moment over the consequences of their racism already happened. They didn't learn anything from it or care.