Donald J. Trump’s closing rally at Madison Square Garden on the second to last Sunday before the election was a release of rage at a political and legal system that impeached, indicted and convicted him, a vivid and at times racist display of the dark energy animating the MAGA movement.
A comic kicked off the rally by dismissing Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,” then mocked Hispanics as failing to use birth control, Jews as cheap and Palestinians as rock-throwers, and called out a Black man in the audience with a reference to watermelon.
Another speaker likened Vice President Kamala Harris to a prostitute with “pimp handlers.” A third called her “the Antichrist.” And the former Fox News host Tucker Carlson mocked Ms. Harris — the daughter of an Indian mother and a Jamaican father — with a made-up ethnicity, saying she was vying to become “the first Samoan-Malaysian, low IQ former California prosecutor ever to be elected president.”
By the time the former president himself took the stage, an event billed as delivering the closing message of his campaign, with nine days left in a tossup race, had instead become a carnival of grievances, misogyny and racism.
…and all those people are still going to vote for him. Make it make sense
No… Puerto Ricans cannot vote for president. Democrats want to change that, but guess who keeps blocking it
Just to clarify, Puerto Ricans are US Citizens and can vote for President if they are residents of any of the 50 States. It’s only Puerto Ricans living in Puerto Rico (or other citizens living there) who cannot vote for President because the Constitution only grants this right to US States not federal territories.
2021 Census data captured 5.8 million Puerto Ricans living in a Presidential voting area but only time will tell if this made an impact.
Puerto Rico has no electors. But there are a lot of Puerto Ricans living in the states, and as US citizens they can vote in the election.