'They are switching their vote!' Analyst says music star's decision is a fiasco for Trump
Democratic strategist Maria Cardona warned longtime Trump insider Matt Mowers on CNN to ignore the Puerto Rican influencers abandoning former President Donald Trump at his own peril.
The latest to do so is Reggaeton superstar Nicky Jam, who on Wednesday walked back his endorsement of Trump over a racist comedy routine at Trump's Madison Square Garden rally in which a comedian called Puerto Rico a "floating island of garbage." Jam's endorsement has already faced questions after he scrubbed it off social media last month when Trump mistakenly thought he was a woman and called him "hot."
"Obviously, he's not a household name, but in some communities, he's a very popular artist who means a lot," said CNN anchor Boris Sanchez. "What's the significance of him coming out now and withdrawing his endorsement of Donald Trump?"
Mowers insisted that it wouldn't do very much.
"I get it. Six days out from election, Democrats are going to try to spin whatever they can to try to say, 'Look, it was really about the Puerto Rican community in Pennsylvania' ... if you look at the vast majority of polling, voters are not undecided right now and yes, maybe there's going to be one or two people who will flip. I guarantee if we found a couple of anecdotes, we could find some on the other side, at the end of the day though this is a very baked-in electorate, voters have made up their minds. They're not going to change it in the final six days, regardless of what you say."
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Indeed, he added, "I think President Biden's comments last night calling half of Americans garbage is going to resonate ... where they could be more motivated to show up as a result of the fact that they feel like they were attacked by Joe Biden and Kamala Harris."
Cardona told him that was wishful thinking.
"What I'm hearing from what Nicky Jam did, and from what I'm hearing what voters are saying, they are switching their votes," she said. "In Pennsylvania, 500,000 Puertorriqueños, more in the battleground states. In Nevada, John King had a piece about Latinos, not Puertorriqueños, Latinos who were saying, 'That didn't just p--- off Puertorriqueños, it p---ed the Latino community off, because you're talking about us.' And people are calling into my show, Latino DJ, saying they are switching their vote. So if you think that that has no effect, keep thinking that. We'll talk on Tuesday."
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