Washington GOP text to Latino voters makes wild claim Democrats want to ‘eliminate the Spanish language’

The Washington State GOP is accusing Hispanic Democrats of trying to eliminate the Spanish language - (Getty Images)

As the GOP continues to weather widespread fallout after a comedian at Donald Trump’s recent Madison Square Garden rally called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage,” the party’s Washington State operation is floating the mendacious claim that Democrats are angling to “eliminate the Spanish language.”

The Spanish-language message was texted to voters on Friday, from a sender calling himself “Matteo from the Washington State Republican Party.” It took aim at a trio of Democratic candidates who are themselves of Latino descent.