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Vote, get active, get involved

Talk to your dem-leaning friends, family, neighbors, etc. and encourage them to turnout

Volunteer and reach even more people

Or also nitter.poast.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateside_Puerto_Ricans

They includes 3rd parties in 2016, but did not in 2020 and 2024, hence the different margins. And the 3rd party they included was of the Republican spoiler type rather than the Democratic spoiler type

They had way higher third party votes in their poll than actually occured - and the third party votes in 2016 were higher than usual (helping trump narrowly win in 2016)

There are large number of Puerto Ricans in many swing states (+ important downballot races), and Republicans have been trying to court their vote. This isn't doing them any favors

Peurto Ricans by state

• Pennsylvania: 450k
• North Carolina: 100k
• Wisconsin: 65k
• Michigan: 50k
• Florida: 1.1 million
• New York: 1 million

It doesn't even have to change minds all that much to matter. If any trump-leaning Puerto Ricans just don't turnout, it matters a lot

Make sure to remind and encourage any dem-leaning friends and family you know to vote too! Volunteering is also great to help bring those numbers up

Little bit less than that because another chunk say they have no opinion

38% of Republicans and 25% of independents who do not think it’s “shameful.”

Let's make sure they're voted out. Vote, get active, volunteer

Puerto Ricans can and do move and there's large numbers of them in swing states. There's 450 thousand just in Pennsylvania

EDIT: also doesn't help that he also said

“These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe said, setting up his joke: “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They c-- inside, just like they did to our country."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/comedian-trump-rally-makes-racist-jokes-latinos-puerto-rico-rcna177514

Puerto Ricans also move. Plenty in swing states + places with competitive down-ballot races. Republicans are already trying to back track on this, they think it hurts them

Peurto Ricans by state

• Pennsylvania: 450k
• North Carolina: 100k
• Wisconsin: 65k
• Michigan: 50k
• Florida: 1.1 million
• New York: 1 million

EDIT: also worth mentioning that he also said other racists remarks too

“These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe said, setting up his joke: “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They come inside, just like they did to our country.”

Hinchcliffe also told a joke about one of his Black “buddies” and how they “carved watermelons” together.

It's not for the attendees. There are plenty of people who do not read news regularly and have not heard about it. This is the kind of action that spreads on social media and reaches some of those people

They also said more than that and doubled down on the racism

“These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe said, setting up his joke: “There’s no pulling out. They don’t do that. They c-- inside, just like they did to our country.”

Hinchcliffe also told a joke about one of his Black “buddies” and how they “carved watermelons” together.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/comedian-trump-rally-makes-racist-jokes-latinos-puerto-rico-rcna177514

I respect the joke, but I simultaneously also respect whoever downvoted the comment nearly instantly :)

Plus then it's a nice tie in to Walz's coaching background for that group

Vote, get active, volunteer

Volunteer for Harris online or around you in person

Note: Gerrymandering doesn't impact state wide races like senate and presidential. Only district based things like house seats

California is far more blue than texas is red. California votes around D+20 statewide, Texas is more like R+5 ish

From the article

A Trump voter in Pennsylvania tells Rolling Stone that he had his girlfriend sign the petition and list him as a referrer. “If it were anyone other than Elon Musk doing this I wouldn’t trust it,” he says. But he is frustrated at receiving no confirmation message or further communication from the Super PAC since then. “Part of me thinks it’s B.S. just to rally up votes,” he admits, in which case he plans to “have a field day slandering [Musk], and Trump might just lose my vote.”

Are you sure? Becasuse that was probably me on this same account. On a different post on the exact same topic, I made a comment clarifying the same thing

Edit: searching for "at least $15" across lemmy on my instance only has my own comments come up

He said he wanted his military generals to look like Hitler's

In their book, The Divider: Trump in the White House, Peter Baker and Susan Glasser reported that Trump asked John Kelly, his chief of staff at the time, “Why can’t you be like the German generals?”

[...]

According to Baker and Glasser, Kelly explained to Trump that German generals “tried to kill Hitler three times and almost pulled it off.” This correction did not move Trump to reconsider his view: “No, no, no, they were totally loyal to him,” the president responded.

[...]

This week, I asked Kelly about their exchange. He told me that when Trump raised the subject of “German generals,” Kelly responded by asking, “‘Do you mean Bismarck’s generals?’” He went on: “I mean, I knew he didn’t know who Bismarck was, or about the Franco-Prussian War. I said, ‘Do you mean the kaiser’s generals? Surely you can’t mean Hitler’s generals? And he said, ‘Yeah, yeah, Hitler’s generals.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2024/10/trump-military-generals-hitler/680327/

Think the title autofil wasn't about to get the title right, should read

Former Trump official agrees with John Kelly: Trump ‘does not operate by the rule of law’

Instead of

just a moment