Walz speaks at Puerto Rican restaurant in Pennsylvania
Gov. Tim Walz made a campaign stop at Vilma's Kitchen, a local Puerto Rican restaurant in Erie, Pennsylvania, on Thursday and brought up the controversial joke about the island from Trump's Madison Square Garden rally.
Walz said the comedian's insult was "incredibly hurtful" and "dangerous."
"We saw what happened in New York City and Madison Square Garden, as another attempt to divide us," he said.
Walz also told the group that the country needs a “specific Puerto Rico strategy.”
"I say this as a teacher, we've got to educate our fellow Americans about our fellow citizens in Puerto Rico, why it's important [and] why we're investing there, and then understanding how much the Puerto Rican community contributes to all of our states across here," he said.
Walz also spent time meeting with members of the Bharatiya Temple in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, as they celebrated Diwali.
Walz thanked the Indian and South Asian community for their contribution to "all aspects of civil, political, educational” life, in addition to their input ”across the arts and entrepreneurship and business."
"To see the political voice rise itself up, [and] to see us elect folks that look like the community, we get a more perfect union that way," he said.
-ABC News' Isabella Murray
