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WASHINGTON (AP) Democrats intensified their attacks on Donald Trump on Monday, a day after a comedian opening a rally for the former president called Puerto Rico a floating island of garbage, a comment that drew widespread condemnation and highlighted the growing power of a key player. Latino group in the swing state of Pennsylvania.

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Vice President Kamala Harris described Trump's rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden as livelier than usual and said he was fanning the fuel of hatred before flying to Michigan for a campaign event. President Joe Biden called the gathering nothing short of embarrassing. In a rare move Sunday night, the Trump campaign distanced itself from remarks about Puerto Rico made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe.

The trash he talked about pollutes our elections and confirms how little Donald Trump cares about Latinos in particular, our Puerto Rican community, Reading Mayor Eddie Moran said at a news conference with other officials Puerto Ricans.

Just over a week before Election Day, the fallout underscores the importance of Pennsylvania's 19 electoral votes and last-minute efforts to woo a growing number of Hispanic voters, primarily from Puerto Rico, who have moved in towns west and north of Philadelphia.

Fernando Tormos-Aponte, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh who specializes in Puerto Rican politics and election organizing, said the timing of the comments could create problems for the Trump campaign.

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When you combine yesterday's events with other grievances of Puerto Ricans, you're not really committing to a solid political strategy, Tormos-Aponte said.

Trump did not directly mention the controversy during his appearances in Georgia on Monday, choosing instead to head off another criticism of him that his former White House chief of staff reports that Trump, as president, said that he would have liked to have German generals. The Harris campaign seized on the comment, and the vice president, in a radio interview last week, acknowledged that Trump was a fascist.

At a rally Monday night at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Trump instead called Harris a fascist and said: I'm not a Nazi. I'm the opposite of a Nazi.

Trump also warned that Michelle Obama made a big mistake by being mean to him in a recent speech.

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In his first appearance of the day, at a National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, Ga., conservative activist Gary Bauer asked a question that included offhand praise of Trump turning Madison Square Garden into a MAGA Square Garden.

Good evening, Trump replied.

Trump's vice presidential pick, Sen. JD Vance, was asked about the slur during an appearance in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Maybe it's a stupid racist joke, like you said. Maybe not. I didn't see it. I'm not going to comment on the details of the joke, Vance said. But I think we need to stop getting so offended over every little thing.

The Harris campaign released an ad that will run online in battleground states, targeting Puerto Rican voters and highlighting the comedian's remarks. The comments earned Harris a show of support from Puerto Rican music star Bad Bunny and sparked reactions from Republicans in Florida and Puerto Rico.

Hinchcliffe also made demeaning jokes about black people, other Latinos, Palestinians and Jews before Trump's appearance. On Monday in Pittsburgh, Harris' husband, Doug Emhoff, who is Jewish, gave a speech about anti-Semitism in America, a day after the anniversary of the Tree of Life Synagogue massacre.

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There’s a fire in this country, and we’re either pouring water on it or we’re pouring gasoline on it,” Emhoff said.

Yet it was Hinchliffe's quip about Puerto Rico that got the most attention, in part because of the geography of the election.

From Labor Day through last weekend, both campaigns made more visits to Pennsylvania than to Georgia, Arizona and Nevada combined, according to Associated Press tracking of the campaign's public events. The state has some of the fastest-growing Hispanic communities, including Reading and Allentown, where more than half the population is Hispanic.

Pennsylvania's eligible Latino voting population has more than doubled since 2000, from 206,000 to 620,000 in 2023, according to Census Bureau figures. More than half of them are eligible Puerto Rican voters.

The comedian's remarks were broadcast early Monday on Spanish-language radio in Pennsylvania by one of Harris' surrogates based in Allentown, Pa., who called out Trump for failing to apologize beyond a statement from the campaign asserting that this joke did not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.

In central Florida, U.S. Rep. Darren Soto, a Democrat whose district covers neighborhoods where large numbers of Puerto Ricans have recently left the island, noted Monday that there were large numbers of Puerto Ricans in the states swing.

We remember, and you know what, we are going to vote, Soto said at a news conference called by Puerto Rican leaders. This is the only thing we can do at the moment.

Harris said Monday that none of the vitriolic remarks from the rally at Madison Square Garden would support the dreams and aspirations of the American people, but would instead fan “the fuel of the attempt to divide our country.”

She said Trump's event on Sunday, during which speakers hurled cruel and racist insults, highlighted the point I've made throughout this campaign.

He is focused and obsessed with his grievances, with himself and with the division of our country, and that is in no way something that will strengthen the American family, the American worker, Democratic candidate for president, told reporters. presidential.

Harris also said: What he did last night is not a discovery. It's just the same and may be more vivid than usual. Donald Trump spends all his time trying to get Americans to point fingers at each other, stoking hatred and division, and that's why people are exhausted by him.

Harris also spoke about his proposals for Puerto Rico, such as creating a task force to bring in private companies to upgrade the island's power grid.

Trump planned to return to Pennsylvania on Tuesday with a visit to Allentown after delivering a speech to reporters at his Mar-a-Lago resort in South Florida.

Gomez Licon reported from Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Price from Atlanta. Associated Press writers Bill Barrow in Atlanta, Nicholas Riccardi in Denver, Mike Schneider in Orlando and Will Weissert in Washington contributed to this report.

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