‘They’re All Pissed About It!’ Ex-GOP Strategist On CNN Says Trump In Huge Trouble Over ‘Garbage’ Rant In Key State

Ex-GOP strategist Mark McKinnon told CNN anchor Kasie Hunt that former President Donald Trump’s rally in Madison Square Garden inflamed voters in a key state, and could cost him the election.

With only hours to go before Election Day, the dominant storyline is the the bombshell Des Moines Register poll showing Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of Trump in Iowa, a state he won twice in overwhelming fashion. The DMR poll, overseen by pollster Ann Selzer, is considered the “Gold Standard” Iowa poll.

But Trump continues to deal with the fallout from the antics at his Madison Square Garden rally, especially comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke about Puerto Rico being a “floating island of garbage.”

On Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning, McKinnon told Hunt he has been talking to Puerto Rican voters in Pennsylvania, and the anger at Trump is near-universal:

KASIE HUNT: You spend some time in Pennsylvania in the last couple of days and you were particularly talking to Puerto Rican voters there. What did you pick up on the ground?

MARK MCKINNON: Yeah, I’m here on the ground in Philly and I’ve been here for most of the week and we’ll be through the election. So I think you had some really unique insights last week when we were talking about the garbage thing and Puerto Rico. And it really got my attention.

So we looked into it a little bit more and went to an AOC rally yesterday. And I want to tell you, you were right.

First of all, everyb– all, every Puerto Rican in Pennsylvania has heard about the garbage comment. They all know about it.

Two. They’re all pissed about it! I mean, again, you were right. I mean, there’s this real pride thing in Puerto Rico, and there’s like nothing more that Trump could have done to offend Puerto Ricans than to describe their country as garbage.

And three, I’ll tell you that there, we talked to a Trump voter, a previous Trump voter, who is now voting for Harris, in addition to all the other voters that were there, who are Harris voters, they’re just on fire!

So the Riveras are on fire, Kasie, out here.

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KASIE HUNT: We talked to on the show. Eddie Moran is the mayor of Reading, Pennsylvania. He’s Puerto Rican. It’s a majority Latino city. And he reflected what you’re saying, which is that there were a lot of people who were like, maybe they weren’t even paying attention to the election. Maybe they were kind of interested in Trump.

But then this crossed their phones and they got angry about it. And all of a sudden, there are more Puerto Ricans who are coming off the couch, which I think sounds like you picked that up, too, which is really interesting. But can you comment.

MARK MCKINNON: 100 percent, Kasie…

The other thing that I didn’t realize that that really surprised me. 7% of voters and Castlevania are Puerto Rican. I mean, in a race that could be decided by a margin of 1 or 2%, if you have 7% of a population who are all on fire because of this issue. Again, that could that could change the outcome of this election just among Puerto Ricans in Pennsylvania, which I think is incredible!

KASIE HUNT: Yeah, no, it’s a it’s certainly been a subject of text messages among the Puerto Rican members of my family, which is, I think, kind of part of what what sparked this for me.

MARK MCKINNON: Well, you nailed it a week ago. You know, you had it right.

KASIE HUNT: You are too kind.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.