The day before Election Day, 17-year-old girl Carmen Hernandez held a cardboard sign with the Puerto Rican flag outside Trump’s rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city that is two-thirds Hispanic. While Trump's campaign had quickly distanced itself from a comic's slam on Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage,

During a recent rally for former President Donald Trump, one of the featured speakers made a joke in which he called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.” The remark did not go over well with Latino voters in a key swing state, new polling reveals.

Pennsylvania Democrats believe comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s insulting remarks about Puerto Rico at Donald Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 27 are already helping turn out Puerto Rican voters who might have otherwise stayed home in this critical swing state.