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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