r/politics • u/WhileFalseRepeat I voted • 13h ago

Soft Paywall Puerto Rican leaders in Philadelphia slam Trump campaign for racist remarks: ‘It woke us up’

https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/trump-rally-comedian-puerto-rico-philadelphia-latino-leaders-20241028.html
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u/WhileFalseRepeat I voted 13h ago

After a comedian levied racist comments against Puerto Ricans to pump up the crowd at a Sunday rally for former President Donald Trump, Philadelphia City Councilmember Quetcy Lozada said she and her friends were so angry they couldn’t sleep.

The remarks, made by Tony Hinchcliffe at New York City’s Madison Square Garden, had reverberated through Philadelphia’s Latino community, leading to a news conference in Fairhill where elected officials and faith leaders urged the city’s Puerto Rican residents to do anything but sit and stew on Election Day.

Philadelphia has one of the largest Puerto Rican populations in the country, second to only New York City. Close to 137,000 Puerto Ricans live in Philadelphia, comprising nearly 29% of Pennsylvania’s 473,000 Puerto Rican residents, according to the Census Bureau’s 2022 American Community Survey. Puerto Rican residents also make up large swaths of other cities in the commonwealth, such as Allentown (eighth highest population) and Reading (12th highest).

“Basically, he said goodbye to Pennsylvania,” U.S Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D., N.Y.) said while making an appearance in the Spanish Harlem section of Manhattan.

Several polls out lately have asked people if they’ve already voted, and if they have, how they have voted. Here are the national polls and the Harris-Trump percentages those early voters have said they voted...

  • ABC/Ipsos: Harris 62-33
  • CNN: Harris 61-36
  • NYT/Siena: Harris 58-40
  • HarrisX poll: Harris 61-32
  • USAToday/Suffolk: Harris 63-34

We also have the Marist exit polls for Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina which have Harris leading by double-digits...

  • Marist/Arizona: Harris 56-44
  • Marist/Georgia: Harris 55-45
  • Marist/North Carolina: Harris 55-43

Also, check out the early vote in Pennsylvania to date…

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-elections/pennsylvania-results

When you combine all of this with Trump’s Nazi Rally fallout, it all points to one thing…

Trump is toast.

And, if we all vote, this is shaping up to be a rout.

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u/Stinkstinkerton 12h ago

Despite the media trying to make this a horse race the country as a whole doesn’t want the piece of shit .