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How Trump flipped the U.S. county with the highest percentage of Puerto Rican voters
Daily Mail ^ | November 10 2024 | KATELYN CARALLE

Posted on 11/10/2024 10:47:49 AM PST by knighthawk

A Florida county with the largest Puerto Rican community in the U.S. flipped red for Donald Trump for the first time in two decades.

The Trump-Vance ticket received 56.1 percent of the vote in Osceola County, Florida in Tuesday's election. The area just south of Orlando is deeply blue and has a 56 percent Hispanic population with the largest subset being of Puerto Rican descent.

Many Democrats thought Trump would underperform with Hispanic voters – especially Puerto Ricans – after a comedian at his Madison Square Garden rally compared the U.S. territory to a 'floating island of garbage.'

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: puertorica; trump

1 posted on 11/10/2024 10:47:50 AM PST by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk

The left did their darnedest to paint Trump with the floating garbage joke.

Didn’t work you a***holes.


2 posted on 11/10/2024 10:59:40 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: knighthawk

You mean to say actual people of Puerto Rican ancestry weree not so offended by that joke, that they would vote for Kamala instead?

But liberal talking heads on cable TV news channels told Puerto Rican people that they were supposed to be offended.

Don’t people listen to the liberal talking heads on cable TV news channels and vote accordingly?

They don’t take voting advice from Mika and Morning Joe?


3 posted on 11/10/2024 11:06:07 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego (P)
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To: SpaceBar

Didn’t apologize. That’s what the left wants. Worked up to now.


4 posted on 11/10/2024 11:06:24 AM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: knighthawk

They’re here in America, not their garbage heap, so…


5 posted on 11/10/2024 11:09:31 AM PST by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: knighthawk

Puerto Rican (and Hispanics in general) do NOT vote as a block the same way blacks do.

Puerto Ricans are American citizens. They want what every other Republican voter wants, Freedom, Liberty, Economic Opportunity, etc.

The LAST thing they want is what the democrats want, communism. /spit


6 posted on 11/10/2024 11:29:48 AM PST by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: knighthawk

yeah cause most people can take a JOKE..it was the elitists in the media who made a big fuss about it, NO ONE ELSE CARED


7 posted on 11/10/2024 11:31:28 AM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: knighthawk

Only white liberals with a “Savior Complex” get offended at those things.


8 posted on 11/10/2024 11:32:35 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: knighthawk
Man, even Puerto Ricans...all sorta ricans, are garbage, just like us.


9 posted on 11/10/2024 11:36:30 AM PST by Sirius Lee (Trump/Vance 2024 or GFY)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The best thing for Puerto Rico would be to bring attention to the serious landfill problem on the island.DJT recently closed a beautiful resort on the island so he knows very well the beauty of the island and culture.Trump will be the best thing for the residents on Puerto Rico.I bet many will return in 10 years.


10 posted on 11/10/2024 11:57:16 AM PST by cnsmom
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To: knighthawk
Trump just crushed it, with all groups including Hispanics, blacks, young people etc, despite 24/7 propaganda by legacy media to paint him as Hitler. He increased his share of the vote with all these groups. Its going to be hard for the next Republican candidate to repeat President Trump's feat.
11 posted on 11/10/2024 12:11:41 PM PST by SmokingJoe
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Have of FR was freaking out too. Idiots.


12 posted on 11/10/2024 12:14:18 PM PST by Fledermaus (I hate yo say I told you so, but I told you so! Trump 2024!)
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To: knighthawk

I am of mostly European descent. If I heard a joke calling Europe a floating toilet, I would not only NOT be offended, I would whole-heartedly agree. The left assumes everyone is as thin-skinned as they are. Morons.


13 posted on 11/10/2024 12:19:22 PM PST by TXBlair (We will not forget Benghazi.)
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To: knighthawk

I wonder if any of them are fed up with Disney?


14 posted on 11/10/2024 4:12:27 PM PST by scrabblehack
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