Less than a month before the United States presidential elections, the campaign of the Democratic candidate, Kamala Harris, is making the most of its options to captivate the Latino voter in Pennsylvania, a ‘hinge state’ where gaining the support of the Hispanic community can be crucial.
In recent weeks, there have been dozens of announcements, actions and meetings between representatives of Harris’ team and Pennsylvanians in key cities such as Allentown, the third most populated in that state and where 55% of its neighbors are of Latin origin.
Initiatives such as that of Democratic Congresswoman Susan Wild and Pete Aguilar, the latter president of the Democratic Caucus in the US House of Representatives, who met today with local politicians and businessmen at a round table in Allentown.
“We must address the problem of housing prices at the federal level and also focus more on the provision of services for working families in this area, who have many problems even getting to their workplaces,” Wild explained from a improvised stand at the Mexican restaurant La Cocina del Abuelo in Allentown.
For his part, Aguilar, born in California, found similarities between this town located in Lehigh County and his place of origin, and stressed that it is important to facilitate access to information on services in Spanish for the Latino community so that know “all the rights they have”.
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Harris campaign accelerates its options to attract the Latino vote in crucial Pennsylvania
“Not everyone understands English when they arrive, nor does they know how to regularize their situation in the face of bureaucratic obstacles. They lack information about how to obtain residence permits, visas or apply for citizenship,” added Puerto Rican Cynthia Mota, president of the Allentown Council.
In what is practically a carbon copy of some of the priorities of the rest of the country, local businessmen and politicians agreed that the concerns in the area also involve knowing what will happen to taxes when the next president of the United States takes office and whether health insurance plans such as Medicaid will undergo changes.
Meanwhile, the Hispanic population of Pennsylvania does not stop growing, and there are now more than 1.2 million inhabitants in this ‘swing state’, attracted by job opportunities mainly in the manufacturing sector and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as by more affordable prices.
Approximately 600,000 Latinos in Pennsylvania are called to the polls on November 5. In the last elections, the state’s electoral votes were decided by a difference of 82,000 ballots, so a tough battle is expected for each vote.
From the beginning of the year until today, the Democratic Party and the Republican Party, aware that Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes are decisive, have invested 180 and 170 million dollars in propaganda, respectively, according to a statistic from The New York Times published this week. Wednesday.
An hour’s drive from Allentown, Reading, the city with the highest proportion of Latinos per inhabitant in Pennsylvania (70%), hosts a rally tonight by former President Donald Trump (2017-2021), who is also in search of the Hispanic voter, al who will try to convince that his return to the White House is the best option in the November elections.
With information from EFE.
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