Ruben Navarrette: With Latinos, Harris has promises to keep — and miles to go before ahe aleeps

U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris delivers remarks at the annual Freedman’s Bank Forum at the Treasury Department in Washington, U.S., October 4, 2022. SAN DIEGO — Now that they have Vice President Kamala Harris as their presidential nominee, Democrats probably think they’ve solved their problem with Latino voters.

They might want to think again.

It’s true that Harris is a major improvement over President Joe Biden. A recent poll by USA Today/Suffolk University found that Harris now leads Trump by 16 points among Latinos, 53% to 37%. In June, an earlier poll found that Trump was leading Biden — who was then the presumptive Democratic nominee — by two points. That means there has been a remarkable 18-point swing ever since Harris took the reins and became the Democratic presidential nominee.

But the story doesn’t end there.

For one thing, any Democrat running for president who gets only 53% of the Latino vote ought to be ashamed. In most of the presidential elections since 1960, Latinos have given a majority of their votes to the Democratic candidate. The low mark has, up to now, been the 54% of the Latino vote that John Kerry won in 2004; the Democratic senator from Massachusetts surrendered […]

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