Trump says his NY rally was a lovefest, punctuated by insults,

PALM BEACH, Florida, United States Googlmap. – Some friends urged them to apologize for racist comments made by their speakers weekend rallyDonald Trump chose to take a different route and said it was “an honor to be involved in an event like this” and described the scene as a “love fest”, the same term he used to describe led to the January 6 attack on the Capitol. from the United States.

Trump gathered supporters and reporters at his Mar-a-Lago estate two days after a massive rally at Madison Square Garden that featured a series of rude comments from several speakers, including a segment of the comedian <a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/bad-bunny-shows-his-support-for-kamala-harris-and-remembers-trumps-poor-treatment-of-puerto-rico/" title="Bad Bunny shows his support for Kamala Harris and remembers Trump's poor treatment of Puerto Rico“>Tony Hinchcliffe in which he made fun of Puerto Rico It was a “floating island of rubbish”. Some of Trump’s Republican allies have criticized the comments, and his campaign has publicly distanced itself from Hinchcliffe’s joke, though not from the other comments.

But given the chance to apologize, both at Mar-a-Lago and in an earlier interview with ABC, Trump said “there’s never been an event as beautiful” as Sunday night’s gathering in the city his in New York.

“Love in that room. “It was impressive,” he said. “It was like a love fest, a real love fest. And I was honored to be involved.”

With a week to go before Election Day, some Trump allies have expressed fears that the rally, which was supposed to highlight the closing message of the Republican presidential nominee in grand fashion in New York , has been an attraction and even a solution with the electoral importance of Puerto Ricans who live in Pennsylvania and other disputed states.

Trump planned to hold a rally later Tuesday in Allentown, Pennsylvania, a city with a large Hispanic population, where he will be joined by Puerto Rico’s shadow senator, Zoraida Buxo, according to a campaign official who spoke on condition of anonymity. too formal. advertisement

Buxo, who does not have a vote in the Senate because Puerto Rico is not a state, posted his support for Trump on the social network X. He said Trump is the “strong leader” Puerto Rico needs.

The Madison Square Garden event risks fueling voters’ concerns about Trump’s rhetoric and penchant for controversy in the final stretch of the presidential campaign. Speakers at the rally also made racist comments about Latinos, African Americans, Jews and Palestinians, as well as sexual insults against Trump’s Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Clinton.

On Tuesday, Trump tried to turn the page on the controversy and refocus on Harris, criticizing his rival’s record on the border and the economy.

Trump, who did not take questions at the event, accused Harris of running a “total hate campaign” and said she continues to talk about Hitler and the Nazis because their achievements are appalling.

In an interview with ABC News on Tuesday, Trump tried to distance himself from Hinchcliffe but did not criticize what he said.

“I don’t know him, someone put him there. “I don’t know who he is,” Trump said, according to the network, insisting he hadn’t heard Hinchcliffe’s comments. But when asked what he thought of them, Trump “didn’t take the opportunity to dismiss them, repeating that he hadn’t heard the comments,” ABC reported.

The comments have sparked outrage from Puerto Rican leaders.

The archbishop of Puerto Rico urged Trump to reject them, saying it was not enough for the campaign to say the joke did not reflect Trump’s views. The president of the Republican Party of Puerto Rico called Hinchcliffe’s “bad attempt at comedy” “disgusting, ignorant and completely ignorant.”

In Pennsylvania, where Trump planned to campaign later on Tuesday, the number of Latino voters has tripled since 2000. More than half of them are Puerto Rican voters.

Angelo Ortega, a longtime Allentown resident and former Republican who plans to vote for Harris this time, said he couldn’t believe what he heard about the Trump rally.

“I don’t know if my jaw dropped or if I was just irritated, angry. I didn’t know what to feel,” said Ortega, who was born in New York but whose father came from Puerto Rico. Ortega has been campaigning for Harris and said he knows at least one Hispanic Republican voter who plans to switch from Trump to Harris because of Hinchcliffe’s comments.

“They’re already tired. They were listening to (Trump), but they said that was like the straw that broke the camel’s back,” said Ortega, a member of the Make the Road PA campaign group.

However, some Puerto Ricans were unfazed Republicans. Lydia Maldonado, who attended Trump’s event in Florida on Tuesday, said it was important to note that the former president was not the one who mentioned Puerto Rico.

“He’s a comedian, and a comedian makes a living from what? Of grace and nothingness. The man is an idiot. He doesn’t know what Puerto Rico is, he doesn’t know our culture and he went up. It’s called forgive and forget,” said Maldonado, who is Puerto Rican.

Harris’ campaign has released an ad that will go online in battleground states targeting Puerto Rican voters and highlighting the comedian’s views.