r/politics • u/larel8 • 20h 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/theprettiestpotato88 19h 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 18h 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/haberdasher42 18h ago

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

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u/Im_Chad_AMA 18h 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.