Alondra Cortes, who attended Harris’ Allentown rally, said it made her cry with happiness just hours before Cortes — a first-time voter born and raised in Puerto Rico — becomes the first in her family to vote in a mainland U.S. election. (AP Video by Michael Rubinkam / Nov. 4, 2024)
By Luis Andres Henao And Adriana Gomez Licon The Associated Press
READING, Pa. (AP) — The day before Election Day, 17-year-old girl Carmen Hernandez held a cardboard sign with the Puerto Rican flag outside Trump’s rally in Reading, Pennsylvania, a city that is two-thirds Hispanic.
“What you call trash is our treasure,” the sign read.
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