Following the large backlash, senior adviser Danielle Alvarez stated in an announcement: “This joke doesn’t replicate the views of President Trump or the marketing campaign.”
In addition to viewers, Hinchcliffe additionally acquired backlash from Tim Walz and Alexandria Ocasio-Corte.
Ocasio-Cortez stated whereas watching a stay stream of the rally together with Walz: “When you will have some a—— calling Puerto Rico ‘floating rubbish,’ know that that is what they consider you. It is what they consider anybody who makes much less cash than them.”
Walz even referred to Hinchcliffe as a “jackwat.”
Hinchcliffe took to X to defend his jokes and wrote: “These folks don’t have any humorousness. Wild {that a} vice presidential candidate would take day out of his ‘busy schedule’ to research a joke taken out of context to make it appear racist.
“I like Puerto Rico and trip there. I made enjoyable of everybody…watch the entire set. I’m a comic Tim…is perhaps time to alter your tampon.”