NAZARETH, Pa. Pennsylvania Democrats believe comedian Tony Hinchcliffes insulting remarks about Puerto Rico at Donald Trumps Madison Square Garden rally on Oct. 27 are already helping turn out Puerto Rican voters who might have otherwise stayed home in this critical swing state.

Out of the seven battleground states that will decide the winner of Tuesdays election between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, Pennsylvania has the largest population of Puerto Ricans. The Keystone States nearly 500,000-person Puerto Rican population is concentrated in North Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley, Reading and Hazleton.

The same day Hinchcliffes remarks shook the political firmament, Harris had been campaigning in the Puerto Rican community in North Philadelphia.

I have heard from the Puerto Rican community directly about how much they were offended by Hinchcliffes remarks, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) said Saturday while campaigning for Anna Thomas, a Democratic running for Pennsylvania state representative. I think it woke up the community in a way that is going to turn them out in even greater numbers for Kamala Harris .

Pressed to explain why these remarks might resonate with voters who are not already firmly in one corner, when so many other Trump or Trump-related comments have failed to damage him, Shapiro said, This is my sense from being all over the state: that it broke through, and it resonated in a way with the community, where it made them say, Well, wait a minute, that guys not for us. That guy doesnt respect us.

State Rep. Josh Siegel (D), who represents Allentown, a city thats a Puerto Rican hub, and Lamont McClure, executive of Northampton County, had similar assessments at the campaign event on Saturday.

Its had an undeniable impact on the ground here in the Lehigh Valley, Siegel said.

Reached by phone on Saturday, Philadelphia City Council member Quetcy Lozada (D), who is Puerto Rican, said her office had received messages from people who voted for Trump and wanted to know if they could change their votes. (They cannot.)

Lozada, who accompanied Harris to a Puerto Rican restaurant while she was campaigning in North Philadelphia, has also heard from many constituents who say their friends and relatives were either leaning toward Trump or were not planning on voting until they heard about Hinchcliffes insult. Its a marked change from the mixed results Lozada had gotten some days while door-knocking for Harris in parts of North Philadelphia before Hinchcliffes remarks.

Ive seen a huge level of anger and feeling of disrespect, Lozada said. I think we will see folks who were undecided up until just this week turn out for Harris. We are going to see Puerto Ricans come out in record numbers to demand to be respected. And theyre going to demand that through their vote.

Strategists from both major parties are still reeling from a critical moment in Trumps xenophobia-filled rally on Oct. 27 that Democrats hope could provide a marginal advantage in the final days. While delivering a comedy set filled with racist jokes , Hinchcliffe, a comedian based in Austin, Texas, described Puerto Rico as a floating island of garbage in the middle of the ocean.