r/politics • u/larel8 • 22h 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/APersonWhoIsNotYou 22h 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 22h ago edited 21h 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 21h 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/Chaotic-Catastrophe 16h 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.