Puerto Ricos roughly 3 million residents cannot vote for the U.S. president. But nearly twice as many Puerto Ricans live in states like Pennsylvania, New York and Florida, and they can.

El Nuevo Da, the islands newspaper of record, on Tuesday called on members of the Puerto Rican diaspora to vote for Democratic nominee Kamala Harris over her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.

Trump has for years maintained a discourse of contempt and misinformation against the island that reveals an obsession and disdain for a people who do not have the power of the vote to defend themselves, since the three million American citizens who live in Puerto Rico cannot vote in the presidential elections, Mara Luisa Ferr Rangel, the head of the media group that owns the daily newspaper, wrote in an editorial . However, the other five million who live in the United States, whom they also labeled as trash, can vote.

The majority of Puerto Ricans living in the U.S. reside in electorally uncompetitive states such as New York and Florida. But as many as 500,000 live in Pennsylvania, a hotly contested state where President Joe Biden won by just 80,000 votes in 2020.

The endorsement came two days after comedian Tony Hinchcliffe performed a set at a Trump rally in Manhattans Madison Square Garden.

Theres a lot going on. I dont know if you guys know this, but theres literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think its called Puerto Rico, Hinchcliffe said at Sundays event, to muted applause and jeers.

The remark reignited many Puerto Ricans longstanding anger at Trump for his mishandling of the aftermath of 2017s Hurricane Maria, the Category 5 storm from which the islands infrastructure has yet to fully recover. In one infamous televised moment, Trump showed up at an emergency relief center to chuck rolls of paper towels at a crowd waiting to gather supplies.