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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