Jennifer Lopez Says Puerto Ricans ‘Are People’ at Harris Rally

Jennifer Lopez is talking out for Puerto Ricans.

On Thursday, Oct.31, the Atlas star endorsed Kamala Harris at her marketing campaign rally in Las Vegas, and criticized the Trump marketing campaign for the racially charged jokes made by comic Tony Hinchcliffe at Madison Sq. Backyard on Sunday, Oct. 27.

“At Madison Sq. Backyard, he reminded us who he actually is and the way he actually feels,” Lopez, 55, stated of Trump throughout her speech. “It wasn’t simply Puerto Ricans who have been offended that day, okay? It was each Latino on this nation, it was humanity and anybody of first rate character.”

The singer and actress — whose dad and mom Guadalupe “Lupe” Rodríguez and David Lopez have been each born in Puerto Rico — added that Trump had “persistently labored to divide us,” earlier than reiterating that she believed within the “energy of Latinos” and “the facility of all our votes.”

Lopez’s feedback come after Hinchcliffe known as Puerto Rico a “floating island of rubbish” at Donald Trump‘s New York Metropolis rally.

Additional in her speech, she emotionally shared that she was a “proud daughter” of Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. island territory. She additional famous that “we’re People” and “that is our nation too,” so that they “should train our proper to vote.”

“I promised myself that I wouldn’t be emotional. You realize what? We needs to be emotional,” Lopez added. “We needs to be upset. We needs to be scared and outraged. We should always.” 

“Our ache issues. We matter,” she added. “You matter. Your voice and your vote issues.”

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Lopez is the most recent star to criticize Hinchcliffe and the Trump marketing campaign for the feedback. The View host Sunny Hostin, who can be Puerto Rican, responded on-air on Oct. 28 on behalf of her fellow residents, saying, “we don’t like what was stated about Puerto Rico.” 

“And we all know the best way to take the trash out, Donald Trump — trash that has been accumulating since 2016, and that’s you, Donald Trump,” she added.

Reggaeton famous person Nicky Jam, who appeared at a Trump rally final month, additionally renounced his help for the Republican candidate in a video saying, “By no means in my life did I feel that one month later there could be a comic who would criticize my nation and converse poorly of my nation.”

“Puerto Rico needs to be revered,” he added.

Harris’ marketing campaign additionally issued a response following Hinchcliffe’s feedback, per CNN, launching an commercial in Spanish that famous Puerto Rico “is an island of scientists, poets, educators, stars and heroes.” The commercial added, “We aren’t trash, we’re extra.”

The Trump marketing campaign has additionally appeared to distance itself from Hinchcliffe within the days following the rally. Marketing campaign spokesperson Danielle Alvarez additionally shared in a press release, per CNN, that the comic’s “joke doesn’t mirror the views of President Trump or the marketing campaign.”