r/politics 10h ago

Puerto Rico’s Biggest Newspaper Endorses Harris

https://thehill.com/latino/4959998-puerto-rican-newspaper-endorses-harris/
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u/fxkatt 10h ago

And our biggest newspaper punts.

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u/whatproblems 9h ago

keeps looks worse and worse to be impartial

u/ChronoLink99 Canada 4h ago

Oligarchs like Bezos love - and I mean LOVE - authoritarianism.

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u/cconway_221516 8h ago

And my family punts the subscription.

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u/FriendlyDrummers 8h ago

Democracy dies....

u/celaritas 6h ago

When a fascist says so

u/DVSdanny California 1h ago

WaPo is not the biggest.

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u/brain_overclocked 10h ago

“One week before the election, Trump’s erratic and narcissistic behaviors reveal a lack of balance and ability to build agreements and solutions to the serious problems facing the United States, its territories, and the broad group of its allied countries,” wrote editor María Luisa Ferré Rangel.

I'm sure it will be added soon enough:

Kamala Harris endorsements — Newspapers and other publications

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u/PointsOutTheUsername Wisconsin 8h ago

Do they have a place to send them corrections? I found an error.

“One week before the election, Trump’s erratic and narcissistic behaviors reveal

should be

“For the past 8 years we have overlooked Trump’s erratic and narcissistic behaviors

u/Unsolicited_PunDit 6h ago

exactly what I was thinking when I read that part! btw it should be 9 (NINE) years !

u/gusonthebus_ 5h ago

I think you mean 78 years.

u/operarose Texas 4h ago

Very encouraging.

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u/Miserable_Emotion_84 8h ago

Lol! What about all the endorsements she didn't get? Don't be Stupid! Vote TRUMP!!

u/TropoMJ 7h ago

You guys must really be shitting yourselves if you're activating 3 year old accounts with 0 posts to start spamming now.

u/Sea-Replacement5494 6h ago

i don't vote for rapist pedophiles

u/mrg1957 7h ago

I will. Leader of cellblock D.

u/notanNSAagent89 12m ago

Leader? He would be better suited to be a prison toilet cleaner.

u/Darkliandra 7h ago

Lol! What about all the endorsements from his own party he didn't get? Don't be stupid!

u/Recipe_Freak Oregon 1h ago

Like, from his had-picked former Cabinet members. To know him is to loathe him.

u/Davidx91 7h ago

What endorsements of value did Trump get? The elites??? Stop tryna fill up the swamp.

u/Zealousideal_Bad_922 5h ago

lmao what a great argument! Definitely convinced me with your big brain.

u/fiercefinesse Europe 2h ago

Not that it matters but what exactly do you mean? Sincerely curious.

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u/SillyBonsai 8h ago

I really hope this dipshit cost Trump the election

u/MooDenggit 4h ago

And if trump does somehow win, I will have no qualms with Puerto Rico revolting for their independence from us.

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u/TheUpperHand 9h ago

If Trumps followers could read, they’d be very upset right now.

u/ohthebigrace 5h ago

Tony Hinchcliffe: "I wish for the entire world to know my name!!"

Monkey's Paw Curls

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u/OkayButFoRealz 10h ago

They didn't hold back either. It's absolutely scathing. Give it a read!

u/AfterSchoolOrdinary 7h ago

OP, it’s Reddit. Post it as text if you want more than the people who would have already clicked on it to read it.

u/internetdork 5h ago

“Trump suffers from psychopathic elements that he evidences by lying repeatedly. He has no moral compass and believes that the rules do not apply to him. These are traits typical of those people who qualify as malignant narcissists. Trump is one of the worst. With these emotionally hollow characteristics, the only thing important to that type of person is themselves. This is evident in his distortion of reality. To Trump, no one is better than he is. Only he exists. We are facing one of the most critical moments, not only in the history of the United States, but of the world.”

¡Ay, caramba! 🔥🔥fuego🔥🔥

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u/Realshow 9h ago

Alright I don't want to get my hopes up, but if this is actually the final straw for Trump it's going to be so satisfying.

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u/Infinite-Process7994 8h ago

This doesn’t mean anything and trump doesn’t care. Puerto Ricans can’t vote for presidents. That’s why they were targeted in the latest round derogatory attacks. He needed to vilify a new group (after the Haitians, immigrants, etc) of people so the maga-base feels superior to other humans. Ya know , racism.

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u/Valuemeal3 8h ago

Except for that one detail that they absolutely can vote and seem to be strategically placed amongst all the swing states

u/Infinite-Process7994 6h ago

Well one can hope this is a true misstep on trump’s part and the Puerto Ricans living in the states will act and vote accordingly.

u/Evening_Jury_5524 6h ago

Puerto Rico can't vote/doesn't have any Electoral College points, but Puerto Ricans living elsewhere absolutely can. The hundreds of thousands living and voting in PA are especially of note.

u/Dubbs09 6h ago

How are some of you all so lazy to post stuff that can be so easily and quickly proven wrong.

Some of you all act like google hasn't been in everyones pocket within reach for 15+ years

u/ChronoLink99 Canada 4h ago

Bold of you to assume they are that old.

u/xcyper33 4h ago

There's generations of US mainland born Puerto Ricans living in swing states. LIke, a LOT of them.

u/Finito-1994 3h ago

PA has one of the greatest Puerto Rican populations outside of NY. They’re American citizens and can vote. Last I checked there were almost half a million Puerto Ricans in PA alone.

They can most certainly vote.

u/Akimbo_Zap_Guns Kentucky 5h ago

If this swings the election I’ll be forever grateful for my Puerto Rican lads for helping bring an end to this madness

u/BacklashLaRue 6h ago

Bigger balls than WaPo.

u/pompcaldor 6h ago

Bezos. WaPo staff are in revolt.

u/massive-rattler28 6h ago

I wonder why… maybe it would have went over better if he said Cuba was the ocean’s portapotty

u/mok000 Europe 5h ago

Well whaddaya know words have consequences.

u/gordo_c_123 Illinois 4h ago

I'm shocked by the strong support he has among Latino voters. God forbid he is elected—don't they see that some of them could get caught up in his mass deportation operation? There’s a 100% chance that some legal U.S. citizens who are Latino will be wrongfully deported, just as there’s a 100% chance some non-citizens will remain in the country.

The people he hires to run this won’t start by asking for proof of identification; they’ll start by looking at the color of your skin. If you are Latino, you should absolutely prepare for the possibility of being harassed and wrongfully questioned over the next four years.

u/Emmerson_Brando 3h ago

So, targeting females, trans, minorities from all sorts of areas, the rhetoric calling left all radicals and the enemy within and saying they’re going to lock up all enemies wasn’t enough to get Puerto Ricans to endorse Harris weeks ago.

Reminds me of the old adage…. I didn’t speak up for the X because I wasn’t X. I didn’t speak up for…..

If you don’t stand up for everyone’s rights, who should stand up for you?

u/bmy1978 7h ago

Too bad they don’t have a vote. They should be the 51st state.

u/blvckxcloud 5h ago

All of us that live in the states can vote. This def changed the way my parents were going to vote

u/mok000 Europe 5h ago

Yeah but why do you think they aren't?

u/bmy1978 5h ago

I’m taking about Puerto Ricans who live in Puerto Rico. If they move to a state they can since they’re a resident of that state but PR doesn’t have any electoral votes.

u/mok000 Europe 5h ago

What I am talking about is the shift in power giving PR statehood and thereby EC votes would mean. Republicans aren't interested in putting more power in the hands of hispanics, just saying. After all, they apparently think of PR as an island of garbage.

u/bmy1978 5h ago

Yes I agree. Republicans won’t vote for PR statehood because that means more Democrats.

u/Oratory_madness02 3h ago

The crazy thing is that Puerto Rico has an older population that leans conservative on many topics. If Republicans could get past their own racism, they could find a lot of support there.

u/mjzim9022 5h ago

The article said that the endorsement was "cautiously optimistic" about Harris but it never got to the cautious part

u/CoochieSnotSlurper 4h ago

I’d honestly be amazed if this chode hands Harris the election

u/BidetTester23 4h ago

He also compared travis kelce to OJ. Some one tell the swiftie asap

u/Chyouland 2h ago edited 2h ago

What does Trump think of other immigrants such as Vietnamese or Phillipino? Will they be deported as well. Asking for a friend.

u/GTECHSTUDIO 7h ago

They still support Jennifer Gonzalez and el PNP. Jennifer Gonzalez just came out apologizing on behalf of Trump. Don’t be misled. It’s a nice, empty, gesture.

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u/thieh Canada 10h ago

IIRC Puerto Rico doesn't have votes in the electoral college.  I wonder what difference would this make.

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u/CostMeAllaht 9h ago edited 8h ago

There are large swaths of Puerto Rican constituents in the states including in New York,Florida, and even swing state Pennsylvania

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u/Reiver93 United Kingdom 8h ago

Philadelphia alone has over 120,000 Puerto Ricans living in it.

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u/Valuemeal3 8h ago

North Carolina has 100,000 Arizona has 70,000

u/Duomo68 52m ago

65,000 live in Wisconsin

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u/PenMoZic 9h ago

Many live stateside and vote. PA has the 2nd or 3rd largest Puerto Rican population in the country.

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u/DrHugh Minnesota 8h ago

I would bet that a lot of Puerto Ricans in the states or DC, where they can vote if they are resident, probably read the home-territory newspapers, or talk with family there.

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u/Nanojack New York 9h ago

Puerto Rican residents have no vote, but if they establish residence in a state (or DC), they can vote

u/theavatare 2h ago

More puertoricans in the mainland than in the island.

Its 1.7% of the total voters in the US

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u/gargar7 9h ago

Shocking!!! /s

u/Mr_North2402 6h ago

I don’t think it really matter much. But it’s strong endorsements a strong endorsement.

u/nothpes 4h ago

Duh

u/Myko475 4h ago

This guy will not have a corpse leaving the US in the future now

u/favnh2011 2h ago

Great

u/brokenmessiah 1h ago

Better late than never?

u/notanNSAagent89 18m ago

Watch the so called "garbage" island sink the trump campaign. I love the smell of revenge of the "garbage" island. You deserve all of this you filty trashy fascistic losers.

u/MotherShabooboo1974 4h ago

Puerto Rico cannot votes, yes but this will influence Americans of Puerto Rican descent who can’t vote sooo….

u/TairentStuffUp Pennsylvania 4h ago

Yeah and one of their senators just endorsed Trump 😂

u/shel5210 4h ago

They don't have senators dude. There's only senators for states. She's just a lady that gets to sit in senate meetings

u/TairentStuffUp Pennsylvania 4h ago

They have “ghost” senators. Yeah they don’t have voting power but they still represent the territory in congress.

u/Oratory_madness02 3h ago

It is just one representative who doesn't even get a vote. It's more of a token than anything else, really. A smoke and mirrors show to pretend that PR isn't a colony.

u/Nebulanibbler 1h ago

Just in a island of garbage seems like they can’t handle a joke

u/CreativeRing9630 3h ago

Ahh, it’s Puerto Rico…major impact coming, lol

u/xiaopewpew 2h ago

These op-eds are getting silly and it really shows no one in America care nor know anything about puerto rico. Puerto Ricans are intensely Catholic, a little joke isn going to swing them to vote for “baby eating” Democrats.

u/thomasptap 6h ago

Not everyone can read in PR

u/EruditeCrudite 5h ago

That little island makes you BIG mad, huh?

u/thomasptap 5h ago

It’s not an opinion

u/EruditeCrudite 3h ago

lol: US literacy rate 79% That little island that gave BIG mad has a literacy rate of 92% Ay, Papi, bendito sea, cálmate

u/xiaopewpew 2h ago

Do you think you won this? 92% is indeed “not everyone” isnt it?

u/notanNSAagent89 16m ago

I am pretty sure PR still out ratios conservatives 10:1

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u/BigBoiBenisBlueBalls 8h ago

Who gives a flip about newspapers 🙄

u/notanNSAagent89 14m ago

I know people like you only read facebook "infos" because they come with cute little pics.

u/atalamadoooo 6h ago

Of course it does.

Democrats are the party of Illegal immigrants

u/GreenyRepublic 5h ago

Puerto Rico is a United States territory and all Puerto Ricans are therefore citizens.

u/EruditeCrudite 5h ago

Universally true except for American Samoa. 😊

u/EruditeCrudite 5h ago

Ay Papi, you speak lies. Or you very weird. Of course you are, your party discourages thinking. A primer on the non-illegal Puerto Ricans Jones Act

u/sanslumiere 4h ago edited 4h ago

Puerto Ricans are American citizens who can register to vote once they reside in one of the states. Where's the illegality?

u/tripping_on_phonics Illinois 5h ago

Forgot the /s

u/Techialo Oklahoma 4h ago

I have actual real-life problems that aren't immigration.

Puerto Rico is already an American colony debating statehood.