Kamala Harris Is Courting Nevada Latinos. But She Hasn’t Closed The Deal.
LAS VEGAS — Outside a large strip-mall storefront next to Cardenas Markets in East Las Vegas, a raucous mariachi band welcomed hundreds of locals to La Cultura Cura, a daylong Latino cultural festival in late September where immigration law firms and major corporations shared table space to advertise their services a few feet from a row of Democratic campaigns with bilingual literature. Inside, families — and, eventually, a multistate delegation of a progressive group’s affordable housing demonstrators — lined up for free chicken, beans and rice as Mexican dance troupes performed in pueblo dresses, sombreros, and, in one case, the traditional garb of pre-Hispanic natives.
When I arrived, Maya Harris, Vice President Kamala Harris’ younger sister and a top campaign adviser, had just made the rounds inside the hall and was posing for selfies with a group of local Latina small-business owners sporting tiaras and custom T-shirts. The elder Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, would address an adoring crowd of over 7,000 in a Las Vegas convention center the following day.
Cesar Quintana, a chiropractor with a practice a few doors down, bankrolled and organized the community cultural event to give back to his neighbors — some of them his clients, […]
