Pro-Trump Comic’s Puerto Rico Insult Raises Democrats' Hopes In Pennsylvania
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“It's had an undeniable impact on the ground here in the Lehigh Valley,” one state lawmaker said.
NAZARETH, Pa. — Pennsylvania Democrats believe comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s insulting remarks about Puerto Rico 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.
Out of the seven battleground states that will decide the winner of Tuesday’s election between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, Pennsylvania has the largest population of Puerto Ricans. The Keystone State’s nearly 500,000-person Puerto Rican population is concentrated in North Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley, Reading and Hazleton.
The same day Hinchcliffe’s remarks shook the political firmament, Harris had been campaigning in the Puerto Rican community in North Philadelphia.
“I have heard from the Puerto Rican community directly about how much they were offended” by Hinchcliffe’s remarks, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said Saturday while campaigning for Anna Thomas, a Democratic running for Pennsylvania state representative. “I think it woke up the community in a way that is going to turn them out in even greater numbers for Kamala Harris.”
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.’”
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