JD Vance Defends Hinchcliffe’s Puerto Rico Joke at MSG Rally

J.D. Vance on the Madison Sq. Backyard rally on Sunday.
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Few individuals anticipated that an important line of Donald Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally on Sunday can be delivered by a stand-up comedian. However comic Tony Hinchcliffe’s foul joke about Puerto Rico has dominated the information cycle on Monday, with Democrats condemning the insult comic for calling the territory a “floating pile of rubbish.”

Even Republicans had been aghast by Hinchcliffe’s joke, with the Trump marketing campaign issuing a assertion claiming that it “doesn’t replicate the views” of the candidate who reportedly tried to promote Puerto Rico whereas he was president. Florida senator Rick Scott — whose state is house to shut to 1.2 million Puerto Ricans — tweeted that “the joke bombed for a cause. It’s not humorous and it’s not true.”

However Trump’s ever-loyal working mate, J.D. Vance, took one other strategy, defending Hinchcliffe at a rally in Wausau, Wisconsin.

Vance, who spoke at MSG after Hinchcliffe, made a speaking level acquainted to conservatives in comedy, stating that offensive jokes are simply jokes and shouldn’t be taken significantly. “Our nation was constructed by frontiersmen who conquered the wilderness,” he stated. “We aren’t going to — we’re not going to revive the greatness of American civilization if we get offended at each little factor. Let’s have a humorousness.”

This seems to be a brand new opinion for Vance. The week earlier than, the Catholic senator was condemning Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer for a video wherein she gave somebody a Dorito as if it had been communion in a botched themed nod to President Biden’s CHIPS Act. Vance referred to as that “sacrilegious” and “offensive.” (Whitmer additionally apologized.)

As Vance doubles down on a racist joke made by a racist insult comic, the Harris marketing campaign is utilizing the backlash to attempt to drive Puerto Rican voters to the polls in swing states like Pennsylvania, which is house to practically 450,000 Puerto Ricans. Harris shared a video stating that she would “always remember what Donald Trump did and what he didn’t do when Puerto Rico wanted a caring and a reliable chief” after Hurricane Maria, and she or he outlined a plan for increasing the Puerto Rican economic system. The video was shared by Puerto Rican pop star Dangerous Bunny, who then endorsed Harris for president, in addition to Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony. On Monday, Harris’s marketing campaign debuted a brand new advert utilizing Hinchcliffe’s phrases that it stated would start airing instantly.