The presence of the Latino and Hispanic community in the United States has a decisive character in the next elections. This electorate is the one that has grown the most since 2020 and its role will be important in the seven states hinge that will decide the presidential elections. Not only in Arizona or Nevadawhere Latinos represent 24.6% and 20.9% of the electorate, but also in Georgia or Pennsylvania. In total, 36.2 million Hispanics who will be able to vote this year.
Rodrigo Dominguez-Villegasdirector of Latino Data Hub in the University of California, Los Angeles, He maintains that the vote of this community “may be the one that tips the balance” towards one party or another. In the state of Georgia (southeast), decisions like that of this Latino voter they can define the elections.
What the numbers say about the Latino electorate
According to a survey published this month by the New York Times, 56% of Hispanics support Harris compared to 37% who support Trump. But that 19 percentage point advantage It is the lowest for a Democratic candidate since 2016, indicates the newspaper.
“In a very tight presidential race, according to the polls, one might think that the parties are making every effort to convince Hispanics. But the reality is different,” says Domínguez-Villegas. It also adds that “There is little experience in political campaigns and strategists of Latin origin“and regrets that the parties consider Hispanics like a monolithic block.
In addition to the more than 36 million who vote, This community represents more than 15% of voters in 9 states. They also warn that Latinos with the right to vote are younger and favorable to Democrats than the rest of the voters.
The voice of the Latino vote
Angel Ozuna He is a 50-year-old Mexican businessman and spent 27 years in the United States to be able to vote in the presidential elections, but He still does not know if he will exercise that right on November 5. This man, already a naturalized American, He prefers Donald Trump, although the Republican’s attitude towards Harris makes him doubt.
“It doesn’t seem fair to me that a man attacks a woman like he does with her,” he says.. He also remembers that “in addition to the diversity of countries of origin and descent, there is a diversity of ideologies, ages and even races.”
Added to this lack of attention towards the Latino vote are episodes like the one on Sunday, when the comedian Tony Hinchcliffe rated Puerto Ricoan unincorporated US territory, from “floating garbage island” during a Trump rally. “The damage has been done,” he tells AFP Javier Torres Martíneza 45-year-old Puerto Rican who lives near Miami, Florida.
Before Sunday, “I was 100% convinced to vote for Trump and now I am 100% motivated to go out and vote for Kamala Harris,” adds this president of an international health insurance company. On the outskirts of atlanta, the office of the NGO Galeo Impact Fund There is a Harris sign on the door with two words in Spanish: “The President.”
The members of this organization try to reach where campaigns do not and convince Hispanics to support the Democrat. “What I always tell our community is that we have power,” says Kyle Gómez-Leineweberits director of policy and promotion. “And if we manage to mobilize our community, it will be the one that decides who occupies the White House“.
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