Jennifer Lopez will join Vice President Kamala Harris at a Las Vegas rally, uniting in response to recent inflammatory remarks about Puerto Rico. The alliance was catalyzed by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s offensive characterization of Puerto Rico as a “floating island of garbage” during a rally featuring former President Donald Trump. This comment triggered backlash among Puerto Rican and Latino communities, leading to heightened Latino engagement and expanding support for Harris through celebrities like Lopez, Ricky Martin, and Bad Bunny.
Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe responds to backlash after calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage.”
“These people have no sense of humor. Wild that a vice presidential candidate would take time out of his “busy schedule” to analyze a joke taken out of context to make it… pic.twitter.com/s0CTOInDkQ
— Oli London (@OliLondonTV) October 27, 2024
Lopez, who frequently champions her Puerto Rican heritage, shared an Instagram story denouncing Hinchcliffe’s remarks and underscored her commitment to Puerto Rican advocacy. Lopez’s support for Harris is part of a broader Democratic strategy to galvanize the Latino vote in Nevada, a critical swing state in the 2024 presidential race, where recent polls reflect an intensely competitive environment. FiveThirtyEight currently forecasts a narrow advantage for Trump, estimating a 51% likelihood of victory in Nevada, contrasted with Harris’s 49%. A CNN/SSRS poll corroborates these projections, with Trump reportedly leading Harris by a single percentage point, holding 48% of the potential voter base in the state.
This partnership is particularly significant in Nevada, where Puerto Rican and Latino voters play a vital role in election outcomes. While the Puerto Rican demographic in Nevada remains relatively modest—approximately 27,000 individuals—the Latino population is substantial. The 2020 census reported nearly 29% of Nevada’s residents as Latino, amounting to roughly 890,257 people. Given the state’s slim margin in the 2020 election, where President Joe Biden narrowly secured Nevada by a margin of 33,596 votes, any shift in Latino support could decisively influence the 2024 results.
Hinchcliffe’s controversial statements, however, extended beyond Puerto Rico, as he proceeded with racially charged remarks about Latinos. “These Latinos, they love making babies, too. Just know that they do,” Hinchcliffe reportedly said, following up with, “They come inside. Just like they did to our country.” Such rhetoric is anticipated to intensify the current partisan divide, with many viewing these comments as emblematic of the Trump campaign’s divisive approach to minority communities, despite strategic outreach to Latinos.
Interestingly, while Trump’s campaign emphasizes a strict immigration policy, including a proposal for unprecedented deportation measures, recent polling indicates that he has made incremental progress among Latino voters. CNN’s recent poll suggests Harris’s standing among Latino voters in Nevada is tenuous, showing only a narrow one-point lead over Trump, at 48% to his 47%. This slim margin is likely to serve as an impetus for the Harris campaign’s intensified Latino engagement efforts.
However, time constraints may limit the effectiveness of such last-minute alliances. Forty-two percent of Nevada’s likely voters have already cast their ballots, according to the CNN/SSRS poll. This statistic reveals that the Harris campaign may face an uphill battle in leveraging these new endorsements to sway the broader electorate significantly.
Ultimately, Lopez’s endorsement and her public denunciation of Hinchcliffe’s remarks reveal a cultural pushback against derogatory narratives aimed at Latino and Puerto Rican communities. While the Trump campaign appears to maintain a robust strategy aimed at consolidating its base, remarks such as Hinchcliffe’s may compromise the campaign’s appeal to critical demographic groups in key states.
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