The former president of the United States, donald trump (2017-2021), has promised this Tuesday to bring economic prosperity for Latinos in the United States while stigmatizing newly arrived migrants in the country as “criminals”, at a rally in the key state of Pennsylvania where the Hispanic vote will be decisive.
The campaign event, where also pthe senator of Cuban origin Marco Rubio participatedarrives after comedian’s xenophobic comments during Trump rally in New York on Latinos and on Puerto Rico will cause rejection from both sides of the political spectrum.
In Allentown, a majority Hispanic city with a significant Puerto Rican presence, the Republican said that the “entire Hispanic community will be very grateful to him” if he becomes president.
“I will bring the best future to Puerto Ricans and Hispanic Americans (…) I will take care of your families, I will defend religion and I will bring back jobs, wealth and factories,” Trump promised his followers.
The former president did not refer to the speech by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico – an island that is part of the United States under the figure of a commonwealth – a “floating island of garbage.”
This afternoon, Trump distanced himself from the comedian, stating that he “did not know him” and his campaign insisted shortly after the rally Sunday in New York that his ideas do not represent those of the campaign.
Trump and his relationship with Puerto Rico
At this Tuesday’s event in Pennsylvania, the Republican candidate assured that as president He did more for Puerto Rico than “any other president” in the history of the country.
The Trump Government’s response to Hurricane Maria, the strongest to hit the island in 100 years and in which more than 3,000 people died, has been harshly criticized.
A federal government report found that officials from The Republican Administration “unnecessarily” delayed sending a $20 billion aid package after the storm passed.
In turn, the president denied on several occasions the official death toll in the Hurricane, accusing the then Democratic opposition of wanting to “make him look bad.”
During more than an hour of speech in Allentown, Trump repeated his anti-immigrant narrativeensuring that the US has become a “garbage dump” due to the arrival of migrants at the southern border.
“They have invaded us (…) they are murdered, drug traffickers, gang members, they are the worst,” stressed the former president, in reference to the thousands of people who have migrated to the US by land in recent years, many of them seeking asylum. and fleeing instability and violence in countries like Venezuela, Haiti and Honduras.
Pennsylvania is a key state in these elections; Biden won in 2020 by just 81,000 votes and polls predict a similar result this year, with Vice President Kamala Harris leading Trump by just 0.2 percentage points, according to poll aggregator 538.
More than 580,000 Latinos will be able to vote this year in the elections in this staterepresenting 6% of the entire population of the region, according to data from the University of California in Los Angeles.
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