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Donald Trump hosted a rally featuring crude and racist insults made by allies at New York’s Madison Square Garden Sunday.

With just over a week before election day, speakers labelled Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” called Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris “the devil,” and likened the former California attorney general vying to become the first woman and Black woman president to a prostitute.

“I don’t know if you guys know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” said Tony Hinchcliffe, a stand-up comic whose set also included lewd and racist comments about Latinos, Jews and Black people, all key constituencies in the election just nine days away.

His joke was immediately criticized by Harris’s campaign as it competes with Trump to win over Puerto Rican communities in Pennsylvania and other swing states. Puerto …

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