Exactly one week before the U.S. presidential elections, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is doing damage control after a performer at a rally insulted Puerto Ricans. Meanwhile, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has ramped up her campaign for swing votes.
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00:00The final stretch. With just one week left before voters take to the polls, the US presidential
00:05candidates are ramping up their campaigns, trying to grab as many voters in battleground
00:10states as possible. Now their campaigns have turned to a key demographic, Latino voters,
00:16a large voting bloc with a historically low turnout rate. But now many are torn after
00:20comments by a comedian at a Trump rally.
00:23There's a lot going on. Like, I don't know if you guys know this, but there's literally
00:26a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. Yeah. I think it's
00:31called Puerto Rico.
00:34In a major Puerto Rican community in the key swing state of Pennsylvania, where Trump plans
00:38to hold a rally, his comments caused confusion among voters.
00:42I can tell that people are not talking a lot about politics on the streets. But they're
00:50not very happy about Donald Trump. That's one thing I can say. The few things that I
00:55have heard, that's what has to do with most of the time, the discontent.
01:01The comments also gained the attention of the Archbishop of San Juan de Puerto Rico,
01:05who called on Trump to personally apologize. Although Trump has not commented publicly
01:10on the matter, his running mate, J.D. Vance, was quick to pass it off as a joke.
01:15And my own view on this is, look, again, I haven't seen the joke. I, you know, maybe
01:20maybe it's a stupid racist joke, as you said. Maybe it's not. I haven't seen it. I'm not
01:25going to comment on the specifics of the joke. But I think that we have to stop getting
01:29so offended at every little thing in the United States of America. I'm just, I'm so over it.
01:35Democratic candidate Kamala Harris condemned Trump for sowing divides with those comments.
01:39But she refrained from directly addressing the issue at her latest rally in Michigan.
01:44And listen, you all have heard me say, I do believe Donald Trump to be an unserious man.
01:52But the consequences of him ever being president again are brutally serious. Brutally serious.
02:00Now with just seven days left, and with both candidates trying to sweep up any undecided
02:05voters, they'll have to choose their words carefully as people make their final choice.
02:10Klein Wang and Tiffany Wong for Taiwan Plus.