<a href="https://www.world-today-news.com/donald-trump-whats-behind-the-us-presidents-baltimore-attack/" title="Donald Trump: What's behind the US President's Baltimore attack”>Kamala Harris e Donald Trump they are conquering the swing states, trying to nibble away at a percentage point lead in a race for the White House that has been stalled for weeks. Polls show the vice president is performing lower than expected among mainstream Democratic electorates.
Harris went in North Carolinahit hard by a hurricane that devastated several communities and killed more than 235 people in the southeastern United States two weeks ago, to directly refute Trump’s claims that federal agencies have done little to help victims of the disaster. Joe Biden it was instead in Florida to assess the damage caused by the most recent Hurricane Milton and to highlight the federal government’s commitment to relief and reconstruction efforts.
With just 23 days until the Nov. 5 election, former Republican President Trump and his running mate, Sen. J.D. Vancecontinue to use the federal disaster response as an electoral weapon. Biden took an aerial tour of the devastation in Tampa Bay and nearby St. Petersburg, and received a briefing on authorities’ response. “It’s times like this that we come together to care for each other, not as Democrats or Republicans, but as Americans,” the President said. And while ABC talk show host Vance said “Americans feel abandoned by their government,” Trump aimed his anti-migrant rhetoric at Arizona, a day after speaking with Latino leaders from neighboring Nevada of the migration crisis.
Although the former president’s rhetoric, often peppered with fake news, is aimed precisely against Hispanics, Harris has not managed to stop the bleeding of Latino voters from the Democratic to the Republican front. The latest data New York Times poll/Siena College show that Harris is underperforming other Democratic candidates in the recent past among the Latino electorate, currently earning only the 56 percent of the population compared to Trump’s 37 percent. A margin of just 19 points when Biden’s margin in 2020 was 26 points and Hillary Clinton’s was 39 points in 2016.
A phenomenon which, according to the New York Times, is explained by the fact that 67% of those interviewed believe that Trump was not referring to them when he spoke about immigrants. Support for Trump’s more aggressive immigration policies is striking especially among Hispanics: More than a third of those surveyed said they supported building the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border and the deportation of undocumented immigrants. These are mostly Latin Americans born in the United States.
The results also suggest that Trump is winning over a small but significant portion of voters who voted for Biden in 2020: 9% said they would vote for Trump this year. The Times points out that since the elections that brought Barack Obama to power with 70% of the Latino vote, that support has been eroded precisely by Trump.
And while Harris has big advantages with women, particularly women of color, she must struggle to earn the trust of black male voters, a growing number of whom lean toward the Republican who in July impeached her opponent — the first black and South Asian vice president of the nation – of having “turned black” for convenience. Polls show Harris and Trump neck and neck, even in the seven swing states that are likely to determine the outcome of the election.
An NBC News national poll released Sunday shows a 48-48 tie. “Any sign of momentum for Kamala Harris has stopped,” Democratic pollster Jeff Horwitt said. “The race is head to head.” Tomorrow both candidates will hold campaign events in the most important up for grabs state of all: La Pennsylvania.
