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    Trump didn’t apologize for Latino tendencies in Mar-a-Lago speech

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    On Tuesday, a week before Election Day, the 2024 GOP presidential candidate spoke from his Mar-a-Lago resort and residence.

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    PALM BEACH — Looks like the long-awaited October surprise Donald Trump Sunday’s Make America Great Again rally in Manhattan featured crude self-made jokes by comedians and speakers about Latinos, Puerto Ricans and others.

    The comments, made at the packed event at Madison Square Garden, sparked a storm of outrage, as well as accusations and denials, even from Republicans in Trump’s home state and beyond. But on Tuesday, a week before Election Day, Trump spoke at his Mar-a-Lago club and ignored the controversy.

    In his nearly hour-long speech, the 2024 GOP presidential candidate meandered through the talking points that have been a staple of his rally and stump speeches, from border security to Afghanistan withdrawal to the economy. He even tried to turn the tables on his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, saying the Democratic candidate was leading a “campaign of hate, absolute hate.”

    In his closing remarks more than 50 minutes into the event, he elevated the New York City rally by saying he couldn’t believe “the love in that room.”

    “I don’t think anyone has ever seen anything like what happened at Madison Square Garden the other night,” he said to cheers. He did not address the offensive comments made by some of the speakers that evening. “Politicians who have been doing this job for a long time, 30, 40 years, said that such a beautiful event had never happened. It was almost like a love festival.”

    Trump did not take questions from media invited to Mar-a-Lago for the speech. Hundreds of people attended the ballroom where the speech was given, including Mar-a-Lago members, campaign supporters and local GOP officials and candidates. FOX News anchor Sean Hannity, Campaign aide who owns property in Palm Beach Corey Lewandowski and Trump lawyer Alina Haba were among those in attendance.

    The speech came two days after some speakers at a New York City rally risked undermining the former president’s outreach and potential gains to Hispanic voters, who make up about 15% of the national electorate.

    The disparaging comments prompted a bounty on Harris-Walz and Democrats in Trump’s home state; They were immediately pounced on as a potential game-changer in a presidential contest that polls show is historically close.

    The debate also distracted from the main purpose of Sunday evening’s rally: to kick off Trump’s closing argument to U.S. voters by emphasizing his plans to reduce inflation and secure the border.

    What offensive comments did the comedian and others make at Trump’s Manhattan MAGA rally?

    “There’s literally an island of garbage floating in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said at a Madison Square Garden rally hosted by Trump and his campaign on Sunday, Oct. 27.

    Hinchcliffe, who hosts the comedy podcast Kill Tony, also addressed sexual innuendos about Hispanics in a profane comment.

    “This is crazy and these Latinas like to make babies too, get this, they don’t do that,” she said. “They’re coming in just like they did in our country.”

    Latin renditions were only part of the evening’s repertoire. Other comments included a racist trope about Black Americans and watermelons and an antisemitic statement that Jews don’t spend money.

    Another speaker, businessman Grant Cardone, made a rude comment about Harris, saying she and her “pimp handlers” would ruin the country.

    Offensive comments suddenly spread on social media. Just as quickly, Puerto Rican mega music stars Bad Bunny and Jennifer Lopez announced their support for Harris’ campaign on their social media accounts, where they have millions of followers.

    Florida Republican U.S. Sens. Marco Rubio and Rick Scott also condemned the jokes, as did GOP Congresswoman Maria Elvira Salazar of Miami. Scott and Salazar are in a competitive reelection race.

    Even the archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico, In an open letter to TrumpShe asked him to apologize, according to The Hill.

    Democrats: Jokes made a quiet part loud about MAGA’s attitude towards Latinos

    During a call Monday morning, Rolando Barrero of the Florida Democratic Hispanic Caucus called the remarks a “disgusting” disdain for Puerto Ricans on the island and the U.S. mainland.

    “This language is not only degrading, it is dehumanizing and completely unacceptable to anyone who seeks to lead our country.” he said.

    Barrero noted that Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory and its residents are American citizens by birth. He also accused the Trump campaign of knowingly allowing Hinchcliffe’s comments.

    “These are the US citizens he’s talking about,” Barrero said. “All of these jokes were pre-planned. They were vetted. They were vetted and delivered on purpose, and it’s disgusting.”

    Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, the Democratic candidate who wants to unseat Scott, said the comments were part of Trump’s ugly rhetoric against immigrants entering the United States through Mexico’s southern border.

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    Mucarsel-Powell said that if Trump takes back the White House, what he calls xenophobic policies will be implemented after poisonous statements. The former Miami-area Democratic congressman recalled the Trump administration’s 2018 family separation policy at the border.

    “I have seen firsthand how thousands of children were not only separated from each other, but were detained and not reunited with their families,” he said. “This is exactly the type of policy they would implement again.”

    U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, an Orlando Democrat, called on Puerto Rican voters to punish Trump and his allies for current and past shortcomings, from “vile” jokes in the comic strip to Trump throwing in paper towels after Hurricane Maria devastated the Caribbean island in 2017.

    Soto stated that there are 1.2 million Puerto Ricans in Florida, 500,000 in Pennsylvania, and 50,000 in Georgia and North Carolina.

    “We have eight days left for our community to respond by voting, voting, voting,” Soto said. “It’s the only way.”

    Trump is scheduled to speak at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania, on Tuesday night. Even the mayor of that city called out Trump.

    “I couldn’t believe what I heard from the Trump rally. Seeing this kind of hatred on full display not only angered me, but deepened my resolve to do everything in my power to ensure he never sits in the Oval Office again,” said Allentown Mayor Matt Tuerk. More than half Allentown’s residents are Latinoand most are of Puerto Rican descent. Tuerk, a Democrat of Cuban descent, is the city’s first Latino mayor.

    Will jokes corrupt Trump, MAGA attack Latino voters?

    The fiasco at Madison Square Garden threatens to undo the significant and potentially decisive advances Trump has made among Latino voters, especially young men.

    In 2020, President Joe Biden garnered nearly 59% of the Latino vote. However, recent polls show Trump is closing the gap.

    A New York Times/Sienna College voter poll released earlier this month showed Harris with only 52% support among the nation’s 36 million Hispanic voters, compared to 40% for Trump. A poll released by Florida International University on October 24 also revealed that Trump made up 68% of Cuban-American voters.

    One entry point for Trump was among young Latino men, and one channel was their shared passion for mixed martial arts prizefights; Trump is an ardent fan of the sport who has won the support of Spanish stars.

    Tito Ortiz, a former Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter of Mexican descent who is now a businessman in Southern California, said Trump “has exposed what’s really going on and what’s going on in this country” and why Democrats have a real way of fighting back for Hispanics in America He said they did not offer it. American Dream.

    “The Latino values ​​that we have are family faith and freedom,” Ortiz said at the film premiere at Mar-a-Lago on Oct. 23. “We come here for freedom. We love our family, we love God and our existence.” belief.”

    Ortiz said that he comes from a family in the ranks of the Democratic Party, but has given his full support to Trump since 2016.

    “I’m in, too,” the former mixed martial arts heavyweight champion said. “As a Latino kid myself, coming from nothing, coming from the Democratic Party, coming from the cheese of the government, coming from the powdered milk of the government, talking about the facts to make the American Dream possible for myself.”

    Trump moved from topic to topic in his Mar-a-Lago speech

    It was unclear exactly what Trump hoped to accomplish with his event in Palm Beach on Tuesday.

    The former president did not deliver a focused or coherent presentation. Instead, he jumped from topic to topic in a seemingly stream of consciousness — Trump calls it “weaving,” critics call it rambling — without offering detailed explanations or policy prescriptions.

    He made no criticism of, denied or distanced himself from the offensive comments at the rally.

    Trump has said he will seek to create a fund that would provide compensation to victims of crimes committed by undocumented people and that the government would finance by seizing the assets of drug dealers. However, he did not explain how this would be achieved.

    He introduced Alexis Nungaray, the mother of a 12-year-old girl who Texas police allege was killed this summer by two Venezuelan nationals who U.S. authorities say entered the country illegally.

    “Homeland Security didn’t do its job, Health and Human Services didn’t do its job. The Biden-Harris administration didn’t do its job,” Nungaray said. he said. “If they had done their job, they would have made a phone call to El Salvador and my daughter would still be alive today.”

    Trump then claimed that more than 300,000 children were missing across the country, many potentially dead or being exploited as sex slaves, but gave no details or explanation of what he was talking about.

    Inexplicably, after dropping that bombshell, he handed the microphone to the owner of a chain of dry cleaning stores in West Palm Beach, without going into too much detail. The businessman talked about the challenges he faces trying to expand his business in the current economy.

    Trump then moved on to tariffs, talked about the “Chinese virus,” his term for the coronavirus pandemic, talked about how he threatened a Taliban leader to refrain from attacking U.S. troops, cut Social Security taxes, fired 9,000 Veterans Administration staffers whom he called “sadistic.” and reckless, transgender athletes and other issues.

    He said a second White House term would put the country on the path to peace and prosperity.

    “We will raise our country up,” he said.

    Antonio Fins is the politics and business editor. Palm Beach PostPart of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at [email protected]. Support our journalism. Subscribe today.

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