Puerto Rico’s Largest Newspaper Just Endorsed Harris

I think it’s safe to say that Puerto Ricans are not laughing at Trump comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s “joke” about their homeland being a “floating island of garbage.” That’s their American homeland, I might add.

Two days after Hinchcliffe disgusting remarks about the American territory at Donald Trump’s rally on Sunday, El Nuevo Dia, the largest newspaper in Puerto Rico, urged all Puerto Ricans to vote for Kamala Harris.

Editor María Luisa Ferré Rangel didn’t pull any punches. “Today, the hearts of all of us who love this beautiful Garden of America, and of the world, clench with rage and pain,” she began, as per the paper’s English translation. She noted that while the three million American citizens who live in Puerto Rico cannot vote in presidential elections, there are five million Puerto Ricans living stateside who can.

“Let’s not forget the paper towels he threw at us while we suffered without electricity for months [after Hurricane Maria] and let’s not forget that the funds did not arrive because Trump - through the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development - told them to stop because he considered Puerto Ricans ‘bums who live begging,’” Ferré Rangel added.

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