{"id":228424,"date":"2026-06-26T02:58:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228424\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T02:58:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T02:58:28","slug":"trump-campaign-opens-outreach-office-in-reading-pa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/228424\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump campaign opens outreach office in Reading, Pa."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/joe-biden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u00a0\u2019s campaign says Trump is dealing in dangerous and racist stereotypes and has dismissed his campaign\u2019s office openings as superficial patronizing of minority voters.\n<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s reelection campaign, together with the Pennsylvania Democratic Party, has opened 24 offices and has 100-plus staffers across the state, and has spent months organizing house parties and other voter mobilization efforts. It has been spending on ads in Pennsylvania since late last summer with a special emphasis on voters of Puerto Rican or Caribbean heritage.\n<\/p>\n<p>Yrene Rodriguez, 46, an accountant at Reading Community College who said she and her whole family are Biden supporters, dismissed Wednesday\u2019s efforts by Trump\u2019s backers as \u201cjust propaganda.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey just want to get people to say nice things about him,\u201d Rodriguez said.\n  <\/p>\n<p>Luis Rodriguez, who owns a real estate wholesaling and rehabbing business with offices in Pennsylvania, addressed the Trump office opening and talked about the importance of extending the U.S.-Mexico border wall, a signature promise from Trump\u2019s first campaign that he pursued in office.\n<\/p>\n<p>Asked after the event about concerns Trump\u2019s harsh personal rhetoric might alienate some Hispanics, Rodriguez, who isn\u2019t related to Yrene, said such suggestions don\u2019t have \u201cany backing or validity.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Michael Rivera, a commissioner in Berks County, which encompasses Reading, spoke at the office opening in English and Spanish and said more effort to reach out to Hispanic voters \u201cdemonstrates the Republican Party\u2019s understanding of the power of diversity among the American people.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Located in a red-brick building across from a downtown CVS, the campaign office was indistinguishable from most corporate spaces, except for the placards in the front window reading \u201cLatino Americans for Trump,\u201d \u201cStop Illegal Voting\u201d and \u201cJoe Biden, You\u2019re Fired.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>Attracting more attention was a table of Trump merchandise set up for the event on the sidewalk outside. Some people walking by rolled their eyes or voiced their objections, but others were delighted with the display.\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI only want the true king. The true king of America!\u201d bellowed one man, loud enough to be heard inside the office. \u201cThat\u2019s Trump.\u201d\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0\u2019s campaign says Trump is dealing in dangerous and racist stereotypes and has dismissed his campaign\u2019s office&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[6148,34,98967,128,130,129],"class_list":["post-228424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-2024-presidential-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections-2024","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}