Kamala Harris ‘s struggles to convince minority voters, particularly black and Latino men, to support her could cost the vice president the November election.
In the blue-wall battleground states of Pennsylvania and Michigan , Harris’s campaign depends on her driving up her vote margins in the predominantly black cities of Philadelphia and Detroit . In Arizona and Nevada , she needs to appeal to Latino voters, who have become increasingly important in the Sun Belt states. But at the moment, one month before Election Day, she is underperforming with both demographics.
“Regarding black voters, she is doing much better than Biden was [in] 2024 but not quite his 2020 numbers,” Marist Institute for Public Opinion director Lee Miringoff told the Washington Examiner. “Latinos are clearly a weak spot for her, hence the town hall.”
Ahead of Harris’s town hall Thursday in Nevada with Spanish-language television network Univision , for example, polls supervised by Miringoff underscore that Harris and former President Donald Trump are “even” among Latino voters, remarkable compared to previous elections.