Puerto Rico’s Leading Newspaper Endorses Kamala Harris
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El Nuevo Día urged the roughly 5 million Puerto Ricans living in the mainland U.S. to vote for the Democratic nominee.
Puerto Rico’s roughly 3 million residents cannot vote for the U.S. president. But nearly twice as many Puerto Ricans live in states like Pennsylvania, New York and Florida, and they can.
El Nuevo Día, the island’s newspaper of record, on Tuesday called on members of the Puerto Rican diaspora to vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris over her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.
“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 an editorial. “However, the other five million who live in the United States, whom they also labeled as trash, can vote.”
The majority of Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. reside in electorally uncompetitive states such as New York and Florida. But as many as 500,000 live in Pennsylvania, a hotly contested state where President Joe Biden won by just 80,000 votes in 2020.
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