By Michael Woyton
It’s no (October) surprise that there’s fallout for the convicted felon’s presidential campaign over vile racist comments about Puerto Ricans at his Madison Square Garden hate-fest rally Sunday.
According to Politico, the fallout is “spreading like wildfire” in the swing Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
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The news site said Monday that many Puerto Rican voters in the state are furious about the comments delivered by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe during the Donald Trump rally. He referred to Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” and made other demeaning comments about the residents of the United States territory who are American citizens.
“Some say their dismay is giving Kamala Harris a new opening to win over the state’s Latino voters, particularly nearly half a million Pennsylvanians of Puerto Rican descent,” Politico reported.
Voters were reacting online via WhatsApp, a nonpartisan Puerto Rican group urged its members to oppose Trump, and some were planning protests during a Trump rally in Allentown Tuesday.
While the Trump campaign — which we know vetted the comedian’s act because he was asked to remove a line calling Harris the “c” word — tried after the rally was over to distance itself from the slurs, the former president waited until Tuesday to say to ABC News that he didn’t know who Hinchcliffe was, The Hill reported.
At least Trump didn’t say the comedian was just there to deliver coffee.
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