Poll reveals if the Puerto Rico 'island of garbage' joke has damaged Trump

When a speaker astatine Donald Trump's chaotic Madison Square Garden rally connected Sunday compared Puerto Rico to a 'floating land of garbage' it sparked outrage.

But wall-to-wall media sum of nan incident involving comedian Tony Hinchcliffe appears not to person changed galore minds erstwhile it comes to voting.

Just 0.7 percent of nan electorate person a much antagonistic position of Trump pursuing nan incident, which happened during a five-hour MAGA marathon successful nan bosom of Manhattan.

The deficiency of effect connected voters was revealed successful an exhaustive last canvass earlier Election Day by DailyMail.com and J.L. Partners, for which 1,003 group were surveyed.

More than 50 cardinal Americans person already formed their ballots, but immoderate are still making up their minds, and others are still considering whether to ballot astatine all.

Amid nan last fever transportation of campaigning each rally and reside by Trump and Kamala Harris is being much intimately scrutinized.

For nan candidates it is simply a precocious ligament enactment and 1 verbal stumble, aliases unexpected development, could upend their chances.

The canvass recovered that nan events astatine Madison Square Garden were nan 2nd astir noticed news communicative of nan week, down Israel's onslaught connected Iran.

Hurricanes, nutrient recalls, a ungraded involving Diddy, nan World Series and Elon Musk were nan different stories connected voters' radars. 

However, astir Americans are focused connected broader issues than Hinchcliffe's joke arsenic they caput to nan ballot box, nan canvass showed.

When respondents were asked why they person a antagonistic position of Trump, nan astir celebrated consequence was his 'general individual character' pinch 12 percent.

Concerns astir nan 78-year-old's 'mental state' followed successful 2nd pinch 4 percent while his 'self-interest and corruption' came successful third. 

James Johnson, co-founder of J.L. Partners, told DailyMail.com: 'Despite nan news sum of nan comments astatine nan Madison Square Garden rally, voters are responding pinch a shrug.

'Most group are talking astir different broader issues related to Trump and Harris, whether it's attacks they've heard successful ads, whether it's nan economy, whether it's nan bigger issues.

'What this says to maine is that this infinitesimal has not changed nan race. This is not definitively playing nan domiciled of an October surprise, and it's not shifting wide views of Donald Trump aliases his campaign.'

He added: 'That said, our canvass can't prime up what effect this mightiness person connected specifically Puerto Ricans in, for example, Philadelphia, but certainly, connected a macro level, this is nary crippled changer.'

There are astir 500,000 Puerto Ricans surviving successful Pennsylvania, nan authorities that could yet determine who takes nan keys to nan White House.

The victor betwixt Trump and Harris could beryllium decided by conscionable a fewer 1000 Keystone State residents.

Since Sunday, Harris and her Democratic friends person latched onto nan comments.

Trump meantime utilized a run rally successful Allentown, Pennsylvania, to endorse Puerto Rican Republican leader Zoraida Buxo.

On Tuesday night, Trump said he had 'never heard' of Hinchcliffe, nan comedian who made nan violative comments astatine nan opening of his rally.

He told Fox News' Sean Hannity: 'I person nary thought who he is. Somebody said location was a comedian that joked astir Puerto Rico, aliases something, and I person nary thought who it was. I ne'er saw him, ne'er heard of him, and don't want to perceive of him.

'I person nary idea. They put a comedian in, which everybody does...you don't vet them and spell crazy.

'What they've done is taken personification that has thing to do pinch nan party, thing to do pinch us, said something, and they're trying to make a large deal. But I don't cognize who it is, I don't moreover cognize who put him in. And I can't ideate it's a large deal.

'I've done much for Puerto Rico than immoderate different president that's ever been president.'

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