Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, popularly referred to as Bad Bunny, has come out in assist of Kamala Harris within the upcoming elections. The Puerto Rican rapper’s endorsement of the Democratic nominee comes after comic Tony Hinchcliffe made a controversial comment about his native island throughout a Donald Trump rally in New York.

Bad Bunny endorses Kamala Harris by sharing her Puerto Rico marketing campaign video

On Sunday, October 27, Bad Bunny shared snippets of a video of Kamala Harris criticizing Donald Trump. She particularly emphasised his administration’s response to the devastating results of Hurricanes Irma and Maria on Puerto Rico in 2017.

“There is so much at stake in this election for Puerto Rican voters and for Puerto,” Harris famous within the first clip, shared in Bad Bunny’s Instagram story. “And this election is not just a choice between Donald Trump and me. It is a choice between two very different visions for our nation.”

In the second clip, Harris mentioned, “I will never forget what Donald Trump did – and what he did not do – when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader. He abandoned the island, tried to block aid after back-to-back devastating hurricanes, and offered nothing more than paper towels and insults.”

The third clip options the identical phrases from Harris because the second half, although this one is zoomed in on the US Vice President. The fourth and closing clip zooms in on Harris even additional and incorporates just the start of her quote from the second and third clips: “I will never forget what Donald Trump did.”

Notably, Bad Bunny has over 45 million followers on Instagram.

Earlier, comic Tony Hinchcliffe referred to as Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden. Moreover, he made disparaging feedback about Latinos. Besides Bad Bunny, fellow Puerto Rican music star Ricky Martin publicly backed Harris on Instagram on Sunday. The “Livin’ la Vida Loca” singer has greater than 18 million followers on the platform.

Hinchcliffe’s remark drew criticism from the Harris-Walz marketing campaign, the Democrats, and the GOP. Danielle Alvarez, a Trump marketing campaign senior advisor, acknowledged, “This joke does not reflect the views of President Trump or the campaign.”