Lincoln Project hitches Donald Trump to Puerto Rico 'island of garbage' remark in new ad
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The Lincoln Project is out with a powerful new digital ad seizing on a vitriolic, profanity-laden rally in New York City over the weekend that has drawn sustained criticism after an invited speaker compared Puerto Rico — a U.S. territory — to an island of garbage. The one-minute creative opens with a stern-sounding narrator with a Puerto Rican accent declaring “we are Puerto Ricans and we are Americans,” over an image of the Puerto Rico flag and a (presumably) Puerto Rican woman gazing out a window with a cup of...
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