The ‘Kamala effect’ on the Latino vote

Illustration of Vice President Kamala Harris made by Connectas and used with permission. This article is from our media partner CONNECTAS and was written by the Argentine journalist Leonardo Oliva .

“Latino voters, we see you and we are willing to win this together.” This post from September 27 is by Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the first Latina to lead a presidential campaign in the United States. This 46-year-old Californian, granddaughter of a famous labor leader , is in charge of getting Kamala Harris to win the elections on November 5 against Donald Trump.

Both the Democrat and the Republican candidates have been trying to attract the Latino vote, a community that has become the first ethnic minority in the country. But Harris has more at stake in this contest: Hispanics , historically voters for her party, see in the vice president — who is mixed race, woman and daughter of immigrants — a representative of minorities. They consider her someone more empathetic to their needs than Trump, who in the last debate shamelessly spread fake news: that Haitian immigrants are eating family pets in the town of Springfield, Ohio.

Julie Chavez’s post should be understood in this context. Since Harris became […]

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