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Harris struggles to convince black and Latino voters

A survey of New York Times gives the vice-president less than 60% of voting intentions in the Hispanic community, while she still has to prove herself to the African-American electorate.

Three weeks before the presidential election on November 5, the polls are still close, but several surveys reveal Kamala Harris’s difficulties in convincing black and Latin American voters.

A New York Times/Siena College poll published on Sunday gave him less than 60% of voting intentions in the Hispanic community – a rapidly growing population in the United States – which would represent the lowest level for a Democratic candidate in 20 years.

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The vice-president is credited with only 19 points ahead of her Republican opponent within this strategic electorate in several pivotal states, notably in the South-West, such as Arizona or Nevada, or seven less than Joe Biden in 2020 and 20 fewer than Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Trump ‘provokes fear’

On Sunday, she chose North Carolina (southeast), in a region with a large black American population in this state won for the last time in 2008 by a Democrat and which has just been devastated by Hurricane Helene.

At a meeting in Greenville, she attacked her rival by asserting that he was interested “more about scaring people, provoking fear, stirring up problems rather than helping to solve them, which is what real leaders do».


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An “army of illegal migrants”

For his part, Donald Trump was in Arizona and once again used anti-migrant rhetoric, accusing the Biden/Harris government of having “imported an army of illegal migrants» venus «dungeons around the world».

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He promised that if elected, he would hire 10,000 more border guards and increase their salaries by 10%. And taking his incendiary rhetoric up a notch, the populist tribune asserted on Fox News that “the National Guard”, or even “military”, should be called against “the enemy from within» in the United States, against “very bad people (…) crazy people, far left psychos».

After these remote duels, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump will both be in Pennsylvania (northeast) on Monday, considered crucial for opening the way to the White House.


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