ICE Protests, Bad Bunny Flip Script on Trump’s Midterms Playbook

Republicans are increasingly nervous that President Donald Trump’s slipping support on immigration and the economy — two key issues that helped him win in 2024 — could cost them the midterm elections. The Super Bowl halftime show won’t help their anxiety.

The performance by Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican global music star and outspoken critic of Trump’s immigration policies, is expected to underscore on one of the world’s biggest stages the political and cultural divide over the administration’s crackdown that led to the killing of two Americans in Minneapolis and spurred protests nationwide.

Bad Bunny during the 68th GRAMMY Awards on Feb. 1 in Los Angeles.

Photographer: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images

Trump’s border and immigration policies had ...