Trump rallies in the Pennsylvania city with the largest Latino population hours before polls open

Just over a week after a comic joke about Puerto Rico being a “garbage island” at a Trump rally drew days of negative media attention, the former president held another rally in Reading, Pennsylvaniaan area rich in Latino pride.

Historically, it was Pennsylvania’s fourth largest city the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch countrybut in recent decades it has become home to the largest percentage of Latinos in the commonwealth. 2021 Report by Reading the Eagle an estimated two-thirds identify as such.

During Monday’s rally, Trump invited Patty Morin on stage. Morin’s daughter Rachel was raped and murdered in 2023 by an illegal immigrant from El Salvador wanted in his home country for murder.

Morin told the crowd that everyone in her city loved Rachel and attributed the proverb to Trump: “When the righteous reigns, the people rejoice.”

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Rachel Morin was murdered in 2023 when Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez encountered her on a jogging trail in Harford County, Maryland.

Before Trump took the stage, Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida delivered a speech partly in Spanish, noting that he never likes media translations.

In Spanish, or dialectically “Cuban,” as the lawmaker joked, Rubio encouraged voters to vote for Trump on Tuesday and presented a positive vision for the tycoon’s second term.

Trump later he asked the crowd the same question Ronald Reagan asked: “Are you better off than you were four years ago?”

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“You built this country; you will also save this country,” he said. “The ball is in our hand, it’s on the two-yard line, maybe one yard line.”

“Tomorrow you have to get up and tell Kamala you’ve had enough… ‘You’re the most incompetent vice president we’ve ever had… Kamala, you’re fired – get the fuck out of here,'” he said. bloomed.

Trump said Harris had orchestrated the “greatest betrayal” of the American people, before calling the US an “occupied country” because of illegal immigration.

Trump also reserved criticism for Sen. Bob Casey Jr. from the state of Pennsylvania, after inviting challenger David McCormick to speak.

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Trump characterized Casey – in office since defeating Sen. Rick Santorum in 2006 – as a two-decade “survivor” who has accomplished little beyond keeping his congressional job.

He seemed to be implying that Casey had simply followed his namesake father’s coat tails to the office. Elder Casey, of Casey v. Planned Parenthood fame, served as governor from 1987 to 1995.