Puerto Rico is not a state, nor does it have any electoral votes. However, it is part of the United States, there are large populations of Americans of Puerto Rican descent in various swing states, including sharply-contested Pennsylvania.
A few days after Tony Hinchcliffe, a comedian opening up Donald Trump’s rally in New York City, made a racist joke about Puerto Rico being a “floating pile of garbage,” Democrats have been seeking to mobilize Puerto Rican voters around the country. And they’ve now gotten an assist from the largest newspaper in Puerto Rico, which referenced the former president’s “psychopathic elements.”
El Nuevo Día has published its endorsement of Harris, The Hill reported Wednesday. It’s just the second endorsement ever for the newspaper after they backed Joe Biden in 2020.
El periódico más importante de Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 endosa a @KamalaHarris
Puerto Rico’s 🇵🇷 most important news source for those on the island and the diaspora endorses @KamalaHarris https://t.co/kLATO8aD8Q pic.twitter.com/8PMiz5aClm
— Frances Colón, Ph.D. (@fcoloninFL) October 29, 2024
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“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,” the newspaper’s editor, María Luisa Ferré Rangel, wrote in the English-language version of the editorial, which is avialable in both English and Spanish.
“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.”
Yo acabo de escuchar a Ángel Cintrón de ir en la televisión que ellos no tienen ninguna vinculación con la candidatura de Trump. ¿Alguien sabe quién es el señor que sale en este video? pic.twitter.com/TtDE6GoO0Z
— José J. Lamas (@jjlamas) October 29, 2024
Earlier in the week, Puerto Rico’s Republican chairman, Angel Cintrón, vowed to visaow his support of Trump, if he didn’t apologize for the Tony Hinchcliffe joke. A campaign spokeswoman has said the joke does not reflect the views of the campaign, while Trump has claimed not to know Hinchcliffe, but there has not been a full apology.
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