Puerto Rico's newspaper of record has endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris and is calling on Puerto Ricans who have left the island and spread out across America to cast their vote for her one week before Election Day.
El Nuevo Día, the island’s newspaper of record, ran an editorial explaining how Trump has never been a protector for the 3 million residents of Puerto Rico, mainly because they can't yet vote. But more than twice that many Puerto Rican residents live in the contiguous United States, with 500,000 alone in the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
“Trump has for years maintained a discourse of contempt and misinformation against the island that reveals an obsession and disdain for a people who do not have the power of the vote to defend themselves, since the three million American citizens who live in Puerto Rico cannot vote in the presidential elections,” María Luisa Ferré Rangel, the head of the media group that owns the daily newspaper, wrote in the editorial.
“However, the other five million who live in the United States, whom they also labeled as trash, can vote.”
The VP was unveiling a new plan for Puerto Rico around the same time Trump was hosting a rally at Madison Square Garden where a "comedian" made a racist joke about the island that set off a controversy like Trump hasn't faced in a while.
The Vice President also met with Puerto Rican Americans in Philadelphia to talk about her plan for an “opportunity economy” that would benefit them as a pathway to build personal financial stability.