Bad Bunny shares Kamala Harris's video on Puerto Rico on Instagram
Puerto Rican rapper and superstar Bad Bunny posted a video from Vice President Harris on his Instagram story Sunday.
In the video, Harris talks to Puerto Ricans, saying, “This election is not just a choice between Donald Trump and me — it is a choice between two very different visions for our nation.”
“One, his, focused on the past and on himself, and the other, ours, that is focused on the future and on you,” Harris continues. “Puerto Rico is home to some of the most talented, innovative and ambitious people in our nation, and Puerto Ricans deserve a president who sees and invests in that strength.”
Bad Bunny’s post came on the same day that a speaker at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in New York went after Puerto Rico.
“There’s a lot going on. Like, I don’t know if you know this, but there’s literally a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean right now. I think it’s called Puerto Rico,” comedian Tony Hinchcliffe said at the rally.
The comments drew backlash from Democrats and Harris’s campaign themselves.
“As a Puerto Rican, I am tempted to call Hinchcliffe racist garbage but doing so would be an insult to garbage,” Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) said in a post on the social platform X. “When casting their ballots at the voting booth, Latinos should never forget the racism that Donald Trump seems all too willing to platform.”
Bad Bunny has previously talked about Puerto Ricans’ lack of excitement toward voting, according to NBC News. In an interview from earlier this year on the YouTube channel El Tony, the Puerto Rican sensation said in Spanish that he does “really care about Puerto Rico, and I don’t know if it’s the weight of ... I want to cry and everything.”
“It's good to go out on the streets to protest, to let ourselves be heard as people, but I think that the biggest act of protest is to vote against the people who have led us to this mess on Nov. 5,” he continued, NBC News reported.
The Hill has reached out to the Trump campaign.
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