Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin announce their support for Kamala Harris after the Trump rally in which Puerto Rico was described as a “garbage island”

Latin music, which until now had maintained, at least as far as its youngest stars were concerned, a neutrality line In the US elections, they have switched en masse to Kamala Harris’s side after the comedian Kill Tony described Puerto Rico, at Donald Trump’s rally in New York held yesterday, Sunday, as a “garbage island.” Kill Tony was one of two dozen opening acts at Trump’s event, which also included House Speaker Mike Johnson, TV star Doctor Phil, his sons Don ‘junior’ and Eric and even his wife, Melania. At the event, the comedian also said that “Latinos love to make babies. They don’t do the ‘reverse’ thing. They go all the way. Just like what they do with our country.”

The result is that Bad Bunny -whose mortal name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio- has supported Harris in a message posted on the social network Instagram, where he has 45 million followers. His support may have weight, because the Reaggetonero is enormously popular among young people, a population group that generally supports the Democratic Party but tends to have a low participation rate.

Another who has announced his support for the vice president and Democratic candidate is the singer Ricky Martinwhose political ideas are usually placed in the center and who once supported the Republican George W. Bush. Both Bad Bunny and Ricky Martin were born in Puerto Rico, an island that has quasi-colonial status. Other Hispanics supporting Harris are Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, who are also Puerto Rican. But these are traditionally democrats and, furthermore, due to their age, they do not have influence among the same group of viewers as Bad Bunny.

The Puerto Rican vote is very important in elections in which the candidates are tied in the polls. In Pennsylvania, which could be the ‘key’ to the elections, 3.7% of the population, that is, almost half a million people, identify themselves as from that territory. In North Carolina, Arizona, Georgia and Wisconsin, which are also part of the select group of the seven states that will decide who will live in the White House In the next four years, they will be around 1%. It only takes a tiny fraction of that percentage to go somewhere, somewhere else, or stay home to overthrow Trump or Harris.

Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden had white ultra-nationalist rhetoric that reminded some of the neo-Nazi event that took place at the same site in March 1939, although this time the staging was neutral. Trump again repeated that the United States “is a nation occupied” by immigrants, and falsely accused the country’s emergency service of having no resources because they have given all the money to illegal immigrants. Killer Tony also insulted blacks, Palestinians and Jews. The Trump campaign, as usual, says that the candidate has nothing to do with what the comedian said before the 20,000 people who packed the venue, mostly New Yorkers of all ages and from the middle and upper-middle class. , with a higher proportion of whites but a significant presence of Hispanics and Asians.