Kamala Harris courts the Latino vote

In the heat of the first week of her unexpected presidential campaign, Kamala Harris took time, with just over 100 days to go before the election, to host a barbecue on the grounds of her official residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C., for a select group of “Latino community leaders.”

The event took place last Thursday and featured Mexican food, papel picado ornaments and a band playing mariachi, salsa, and merengue music. Vice President Harris, who had just spent the day in Houston, Texas, where she gave a rally for a teachers’ union, welcomed Hispanic members of President Joe Biden’s Cabinet: Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas , Miguel Cardona (Education) and Xavier Becerra (Health), as well as actors Rosario Dawson, Wilson Cruz and America Ferrera , television personality Ana Navarro and dozens of activists who work in defense of the community’s interests.

The Voto Latino Foundation , the event’s co-hosting organization, was one of the first to show its support for the U.S. vice president after Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race . It also pledged to contribute $44 million

Conservative voting intention among Hispanics is, however, a problem for analyst Mike Madrid. These are similar numbers to what Trump obtained in 2020. “It’s not good and is consistent with the decade-long trend of political assimilation,” he said on social networks. The analyst asks for caution while new state-by-state polls are conducted before drawing conclusions, while pointing out something that is often forgotten: Latinos do not form a uniform whole. The majorities of Mexican origin in Arizona are not the same as the Puerto Ricans and Central Americans who dominate Pennsylvania.

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