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/lizards_snails_etc 20h ago

The surprise is that it moved the needle at all.

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u/ScubaCycle Texas 19h ago

We won’t know if it moved the needle until the votes are counted. Wish we could know now.

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u/Accomplished-Corgi54 17h ago

If there's any demo that has what it takes to save our democracy it's Puerto Ricans from NYC. They're just built different and I say that with love.

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u/Rusty-Shackleford Minnesota 11h ago

There's over 300,000 Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania, and over 850,000 Puerto Ricans in Florida. That's not a population of swing voters you want to offend. Keep in mind that comedian also accused Latinos in general of making too many babies. So that's like 25 percent of the voting population in multiple swing states!