Jennifer Lopez to campaign with Kamala Harris after Trump rally comedian called Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage'

Jennifer Lopez will now beryllium joining Vice President Kamala Harris astatine her Thursday nighttime rally successful Las Vegas. 

J. Lo, whose parents were calved successful Puerto Rico, had shared a video pinch Harris detailing her plans for nan island, connected Sunday day - successful nan hours earlier erstwhile President Donald Trump's arguable Madison Square Garden rally. 

At Trump's event, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe called Puerto Rico a 'floating island of garbage' - prompting wide backlash from nan community. 

Part of that backlash has been activating caller surrogates for Harris - including Lopez, Ricky Martin and Bad Bunny. 

After Hinchcliffe's group went viral, Lopez doubled down connected that support successful her Instagram story.  

On Thursday they'll stock a shape together successful authorities that Democrats fearfulness is slipping distant - with FiveThirtyEight.com saying Tuesday that Trump has a 51 percent chance of winning nan authorities and Harris a 49 percent chance. 

A CNN/SSRS canvass released Tuesday showed Trump pinch 48 percent of nan support of apt voters successful Nevada and Harris pinch 47 percent.  

The past clip Nevada voted for a Republican successful nan statesmanlike title was 2004, nevertheless President Joe Biden only won nan authorities by 33,596 votes. 

While Hinchcliffe's comments could do acold much harm to nan Trump run successful Pennsylvania - wherever astir half a cardinal Puerto Ricans unrecorded - astir 27,000 unrecorded successful Nevada.

Hinchcliffe besides made a much broadly racist jokes astir Latinos - which could harm Trump's prospects successful Nevada. 

The 2020 census put nan number of Latinos successful Nevada at 890,257 - or 28.7 percent. 

'These Latinos, they emotion making babies, too. Just cognize that they do,' Hinchcliffe had said astatine nan MSG rally. 'There's nary pulling out.' 

'They don't do that. They travel inside. Just for illustration they did to our country,' he added. 

Despite Trump's hardline stance connected migration - and promise for nan largest deportation of forbidden immigrants successful U.S. history - his run had been making inroads pinch Latino voters.   

The CNN canvass successful Nevada shows Harris pinch conscionable a one-point advantage - 48 percent to 47 percent  - pinch nan voting bloc. 

While nan tide could move for nan Democratic nominee, she mightiness beryllium moving retired of time. 

Forty-two percent of Nevada's apt voters who were interviewed for nan CNN/SSRS said they had already formed a ballot successful nan 2024 race.