PHILADELPHIA – The city has already surpassed 2020 turnout today, according to John Brady (above, right, with Chairman Robert Brady), executive director of the Philadelphia Democratic Party.

“And we’re still going,” he added.

Why are the numbers so high in Philly?

High performance everywhere, Brady said.

But especially high performance in the Latino neighborhoods: the 33rd, 7th, and 43rd – all Latino districts and heavily Puerto Rican.

Brady described the high turnout there as “totally shocking.”

What does it mean?

No one is precisely sure at this time.

Latinos lean socially conservative and Donald Trump has made inroads with them, but then in the closing days of the presidential contest, a comedian misfired cruelly when he likened Puerto Rico to a “floating pile of garbage.”

Might the comment have been a dagger to Trump’s chances to turn Hispanic voters in his direction in this key battleground state?

Public Puerto Rican personalities and leaders widely condemned the remark.

State Senate Majority Leader M. Teresa Ruiz (D-29) had a response for Tony Hinchcliffe, Trump’s warmup act at Madison Square Garden.

Tweeted Ruiz: “Clearly you never consulted Webster’s Dictionary for the definition of trash. In case you can’t read look in a mirror. Despierta Latinas… It will only get worse. Vote Kamala Harris because nuestras vidas depend on it.”

Philly might have gotten the message.

While insiders avidly scrutinized the numbers for answers, a jazz band composed of Kamala Harris backers played outside City Hall in the mid-afternoon lull between a busy morning and the Election evening post-work final drive.

“We’re at 70% turnout now,” Latrice Bryant of the West Ward told InsiderNJ near 5 p.m. as they braced for end-of-the-day rush.

Workers downtown chatted about the election.

Walking the sidewalks, one could hear them acknowledging their differences of opinion while doing manual jobs.

They held strong views.

Not everyone was impassioned.

A man passed InsiderNJ wearing a t-shirt that said, “Frodo Baggins and Sam Gamgee 2024,” a nod to the Lord of the Rings and fantasy land.