Vice President Harris is stepping up her outreach to Latino voters in the final days of the election as former President Trump grapples with the fallout from his Madison Square Garden rally.

Harris renewed her pitch to those voters in an interview on Spanish-language radio earlier this week, and her campaign was quick to cut a new ad highlighting the offensive remarks made at the rally, in which a comedian mocked Latinos and Puerto Rico.

The furor over Trump’s rally has given Harris a fresh opportunity to reach a voting bloc she has somewhat struggled with over the last several months, and observers think it could be a tipping point for more Latino voters to support her.

“Ironically, Donald Trump did what the Harris campaign wasn't able to do, which is move his support levels with Latinos down,” said Mike Madrid, a leading Latino GOP political consultant. “I certainly wouldn't mess with that if I were the Harris campaign. You want to amplify that, play into that, lean into that as a closing message, as a reminder of sort of who he is and why he was fired in the first place, and what he would mean to the community going forward.”

Madrid added that though Democrats have been trying to maintain the lead they have held with Latino voters, they’ve slowly been losing support for the last 30 years, even as they’ve tried to highlight Trump’s history of controversial comments in the last few election cycles.

The comments could make a difference, particularly in battleground Pennsylvania, which is home to roughly 500,000 Puerto Ricans. Harris met with Puerto Rican voters on Sunday in West Philadelphia prior to Trump’s rally.

Ironically, Madrid said the fact that the comments didn’t come from Trump himself, but........

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