Donald Trump promised prosperity to the Latino community and predicted a victory against Kamala Harris

From a state like Pennsylvania where the Hispanic vote will be decisive, the Republican candidate Donald Trump predicted that he will defeat Kamala Harris in the presidential elections next Tuesday and promised this Tuesday, in his final campaign event, that will bring economic prosperity to Latinos.

He did so after a comedian’s xenophobic comments during a New York rally about Latinos and Puerto Rico caused 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 their families, I will defend religion and I will bring back jobs, wealth and factories,” Trump promised his followers.

Previously, in television statements, Trump had distanced himself from comedian Tony Hinchcliffe, who called Puerto Rico, a territory that is part of the United States under the figure of a commonwealth, a “floating island of garbage.” The former president assured that he “did not know him” and his campaign insisted shortly after the rally on Sunday in New York that his ideas do not represent those of the campaign.

In that direction, the Republican candidate assured in Pennsylvania that as president, between 2017 and 2021, He did more for Puerto Rico than “any other president” in the history of the country.

However, during more than an hour of speech in Allentown, Trump repeated his anti-migrant narrative, ensuring that the United States became a “dumping ground” 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 North American country by land in recent years, many of them seeking asylum and fleeing instability and violence in countries like Venezuela, Haiti or 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 polling aggregator 538.

More than 580,000 Latinos will be able to vote this year in the elections in this state, representing 6% of the entire population of the region, according to data from the University of California in Los Angeles.

“It is in your hands, If we win Pennsylvania, we will win everything“, Trump said tonight, who assured that he will defeat “Kamala Harris and the media.”

The election slogans on Tuesday in Allentown, a majority Hispanic city in the decisive state of Pennsylvania, came from a small but passionate group of protesters outside a Donald Trump campaign rally: “Immigrants make America great!” .

The slogan – a play on the Republican candidate’s “Make America Great Again” slogan – along with chants of “Trump, get out!” reflect the growing anger among Latinos, particularly those of Puerto Rico, after a comedian compared that Commonwealth of the country to “garbage” at an event by the tycoon this weekend.

“Latinos are very upset about this,” said Ivet Figueroa, a 60-year-old office worker raised in working-class Allentown by Puerto Rican parents, as about 50 protesters gathered near the long line of Trump supporters waiting to enter the stadium. .

“We are citizens, and he refers to us that way?” he added. “How dare you!”

The shocking statements at Sunday’s rally at Madison Square Garden by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe have reverberated in the electoral landscape one week before the November 5 elections.

It has mobilized Puerto Ricans, not those who are on the island, who cannot vote in the presidential elections, but the more than one million “Boricuas” who reside in the 50 states of the country, especially in the seven considered key which will likely determine the outcome.

Pennsylvania is home to more than 400,000 Puerto Ricans, and pro-vote campaigners have already said they see evidence that the controversy is turning Latinos against the Republican magnate.