In the month that Vice President Harris has led the Democratic ticket, she has seen a surge in support

with Latino voters up from where President Biden had been polling.

But Harris and the Democratic Party still have work to do to motivate these voters who are critical to a winning coalition.

To discuss that work, we are joined by Maria Theresa Kumar, CEO of Vuto Latino.

Welcome back to the news hour. Thanks for being here.

Thanks for having me. So there's been a little bit of a reset with

Latino voters in just the last month. Your own polling from Voto Latino

shows that Kamala Harris has 60% support in polls that's up from Biden's 47% in April.

There's another Echis poll that shows that Harris is up 19 points in battleground states when

Biden led by just five what are you

attributing that shift to one is is that she has been cultivating a lot of

young Latinos since her presidency has sent it into her vice presidency so people are very familiar

with who she is. The biggest challenge though is that they like her but they

want to get to know her better. But the poll was really fascinating to us, the poll was with

GQR, it was 2,000 Latino voters in key battleground states, and the biggest

takeaway was not only was Kamle leading among the Democrats, but she was taking away

roughly 17 points away from Kennedy, and believe it or not, she was also taking away from

Trump.

He is now, so if you head to head today, Trump right now is at 29% versus with Biden he was at 38%.

And it's the younger voters, the younger Latino voters that account for that?

Disproportionally yes, and Latino women.

So to give you an idea, since he was, since there was a changing of the guard.

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