Harris' campaign launches ad seizing on Trump ally's racist comments about Puerto Ricans

Source: NBC News

Oct. 28, 2024, 4:00 PM EDT


WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is seizing on a Donald Trump ally’s racist comments about Puerto Ricans this weekend to launch a digital ad targeting Latino voters that argues they “deserve better” than what the former president has to offer.

Comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made crude jokes about Latinos and called Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during the pre-program at Trump’s rally Sunday at Madison Square Garden in New York City.

The 30-second spot will run online in battleground states on platforms like YouTube TV, Hulu and Snapchat, where Latinos consume a lot of their media, according to a Harris campaign official who first shared the details with NBC News.

Pennsylvania alone is home to more than 450,000 Puerto Ricans, according to census data, with more than 300,000 eligible voters, according to the Latino Data Hub at UCLA.

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