A floating island of garbage

Bro culture catches the Trump campaign 🗑️.

Team Trump’s embrace of provocative podcasters and irreverent personalities has been a smart tactic in their quest to turn low-propensity apolitical young men into MAGA voters.

But as in comedy, in politics timing is everything.

And a single crude quip from a semi-obscure comedian calling Puerto Rico a “floating island of garbage” during Trump’s Madison Square Garden mega-rally on Sunday night is now part of Harris’ closing message against another term for the 45th president.

We know it is a concern in Trumpworld because they put out a rare statement separating themselves from the comic known as “Kill Tony.” We know its rubbed Republicans the wrong way because from Marco Rubio to David Urban, they’re decrying it as unfunny. We know the Harris campaign thinks it is politically useful because they’ve already produced a television ad featuring it. That’s rare symmetry in a bifurcated media environment.

The above advertisement will run across battleground states on television and will digitally target Latino zip codes on YouTube and Snapchat.

Pennsylvania has an estimated 290,000 eligible Puerto Rican voters and Kamala