Republicans flipped the governor’s mansion in Puerto Rico on Election Day, as Congresswoman Jenniffer González-Colón (R-PR) emerged victorious despite a week of controversy about a comedian’s joke at a Donald Trump rally.
González-Colón is currently Puerto Rico’s “Resident Commissioner,” who sits in the U.S. House of Representatives but does not vote. Elected in 2016, she was the first woman to serve in that role.
She won while facing headwinds in the final days of the campaign as a result of comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s joke at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on October 27. Hinchcliffe, one of the first warmup acts in a six-hour program, joked about Puerto Rico’s struggles with pollution, and called the island “garbage.” The crowd groaned in disapproval.
Ángel Cintrón, the chair of the Republican Party in Puerto Rico, was so…
