Last weekend, Trump held a rally in the Democratic stronghold of New York has been sharply criticized for, among other things, racist undertones. A comedian speaking ahead of Trump described the US territory of Puerto Rico as -quote- a ‘floating island of garbage’. Those remarks have been widely condemned, but today Trump doubled down and defended his rally.
Chapters:
00:00 Polls show deadlocked race one week from US vote
01:42 Trump rally remarks spark Latino backlash
03:08 Fernando Tormos-Aponte, Assoc. professor, University of Pittsburgh
09:25 Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas, research director of UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute
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