The campaign is coming to an end and Kamala Harris went out this Thursday to hunt for votes in two Western States where the Latino vote will be key. The vice president needs to conquer this sector of the electorate to win Arizona and Nevada, two of the seven territories that will define the next occupant of the White House and where the candidates are tied. The Democratic candidate wanted to contrast her agenda with that of her rival, Donald Trump. “My opponent is also giving his closing arguments. “They are full of hate and division: they insult Latinos and blame immigrants,” Harris said in Phoenix, his first stop. “If elected, you can be sure that Trump will bring back the family separation policy, but it will be on a much larger scale than the last time,” the vice president warned at an event.
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In addition to appealing to Latinos, Harris has dedicated a good part of her speech to women and their reproductive rights. The Democratic campaign has opted for this message as a closing and main differentiator with Trump. “Ours is a fight for the future and freedom, freedom for the fundamental right for a woman to decide about her body and not have the Government tell her what to do,” said the candidate, who I remember a third party of the population lives in States that approved abortion vetoes once the super-conservative majority of the Supreme Court repealed Roe v. Wade. “Trump is not done. Yesterday he said he will do what he wants ‘whether women like it or not,'” Harris said, prompting loud boos from those in attendance. “He simply does not respect women’s freedoms or their intelligence, but we do trust them,” she said.
Trump will also visit Phoenix this afternoon. It will be his third visit to the State in October. The Republican candidate was in New Mexico in the morning and intends to spend Halloween night with Tucker Carlson, the star commentator of the right who was fired by the Fox network. Trump will participate in a live broadcast for Carlson’s program that will be broadcasts on
Katie Hobbs, the Democratic governor of Arizona, has given an idea of the tough battle that is coming in the coming days. Hobbs became the local leader by 17,000 ballots in 2022. In her speech she cited the close results that have defined the purple territory in recent years, which lends itself to voting for Democrats and Republicans alike. In the 2018 midterms, Hobbs became secretary of state by just 20,000 votes. Joe Biden won Arizona in 2020 by only 10,000 votes, a result so close that it fueled false theories of electoral fraud by Trumpism. Biden and Bill Clinton are the only Democrats to have won Arizona in presidential elections since 1948. Because of this, Clinton has campaigned for Harris in different cities. He was in Phoenix on October 23.
The Northern Tigers gave their endorsement to Harris at an event in Arizona.Go Nakamura (REUTERS)
“Without those 17,000 votes, the people of Arizona would be living today with a Civil War-era abortion veto. Without those votes, our democracy would be under threat by Kari Lake [la excandidata republicana al Gobierno y hoy aspirante al Senado]the person in charge of denying the electoral results. The fight for democracy did not end in 2022. It is still alive here and now. “The eyes of the entire country will be on Arizona,” the governor said.
Senator Mark Kelly and his wife, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, as well as legislator Rubén Gallego, the candidate seeking to defeat Lake and reach the Senate, also accompanied Harris. However, it was the musical opening act who shone the most among the politicians. These were Los Tigres del Norte.
“I want to remind the gringo/ I did not cross the border/ the border crossed me/ America was born free/ man divided it.” With the letter of We are more Americans, The emblematic Mexican group of the norteño genre joined the artists who ask to vote for Harris. Bruce Springsteen, John Legend, Maggie Rogers, James Taylor and Mumford & Sons are just some of the musicians who have lent their works to serve as the soundtrack to Harris’ effort to stop Trump. All of these have touched on pivotal states. “Trump wants to take us to the past,” warned Jorge Hernández, the group’s accordionist, who recalled that this Friday is the last day to vote early in Arizona.
