• Fiona hit Puerto Rico hard in late September, knocking out the island’s power grid.
• It’s unclear whether Biden has made such a claim before, but it’s never been huge part of his political story or well known tosh haveaped his world views.
• The Washington Times in reporting on the remark included information that estimates roughly 2.5% of Biden’s home state of Delaware could be of Puerto Rican background. That figure, however, reflects current residents and was likely a great deal lower during Biden’s adolescence, more than half a century ago.
• Biden also spent part of his early childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, his birthplace. So it’s unclear whether he was referred to there.

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