The Importance Of Latino Voters In The 2024 Election

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🗓️ 29 October 2024

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We're one week away from the election. Millions of Americans have already cast their votes, but Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are not done campaigning.

Over the weekend, Harris garnered support from several major Latino artists, including Bad Bunny, J-Lo and Ricky Martin.

Their endorsements followed racist remarks about Latinos and Puerto Ricans made by comedian Tony Hinchcliffe at Trump's rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Sunday. The Trump campaign has said these remarks do not reflect its views.

We talk about the role Latino voters are playing in the election.

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0:00.0	Hey there, it's Tamara Keith. I cover the White House. I know this is hard to believe, but one day, the election will be over.
0:06.7	Then the winner gets a lot more powerful. It's my job to report on what they do with that power. That's public accountability, but it's not
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0:24.0	We're one week away from election day. More than 40 million Americans have already
0:36.1	cast their votes, but Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump
0:40.7	are not done campaigning.
0:42.3	November 5th, 2024, nine days from now,
0:47.0	will be Liberation Day in America.
0:50.0	It's going to be Liberation Day.
0:51.0	Donald Trump at Madison Square Garden over the weekend and over the last few days the candidates
0:55.8	have focused on one group in particular.
0:58.8	I think of the Latino community in terms of the extraordinary ambition, the aspirations, the dreams that exist in the
1:06.0	community, understanding it is not a monolith, but that not unlike any other community, there are dreams and hopes but not necessarily
1:15.8	always access to opportunity and a lot of my agenda is about creating
1:21.2	opportunity for people to succeed.
1:24.4	That was Kamala Harris during an interview with Telemoondo that aired last Wednesday.
1:28.5	Donald Trump also hosted a Latino roundtable in Miami last week.
1:33.0	But Donald Trump's attempts to appeal to Latino voters was undermined over the weekend
1:38.9	when comedian Tony Hinchcliffe made racist remarks about Latinos and Puerto Ricans at that Trump rally in
1:45.8	Madison Square Garden in New York. The Trump campaign has said the remarks don't reflect
1:50.9	Donald Trump's or the campaign's views.
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