Latino voters in battlegrounds share diverse priorities they want Harris, Trump to address

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72% : Through ads, outreach and campaign events, both the Harris and Trump campaigns have worked to engage Latino voters -- including participating in two different Univision town hall events in front of Spanish-speaking audiences with Harris' event on Thursday evening and Trump's taking place next week.
58% : MORE: Hispanic people favor Harris, but with opportunities for Trump: ANALYSISLatinos have grown at the second-fastest rate of any major racial and ethnic group in the U.S. electorate since the last presidential election, according to Pew Research.
57% : Latino voters in battlegrounds share diverse priorities they want Harris, Trump to addressGABRIELLA ABDUL-HAKIMOctober 11, 2024 at 8:51 PMWhen Vice President Kamala Harris visited the border town of Douglas, Arizona, in late September, it marked the first time Alexandra Cáñez and her friends, Miguel Angel Felix Pacheco and Hector Felix, had ever seen a presidential candidate visit what they call their "sleepy" town.
48% : In June, the Trump campaign rebranded its Hispanic outreach from "Latinos for Trump" to "Latino Americans for Trump," emphasizing the American identity of the Latino voter.
43% : Earlier this week, Trump held a rally in Reading, during which he falsely described immigration as an invasion.
40% : Walz weighs in on Biden's term when pressed on 'GMA'Diversity within the Latino communityIn the battleground states, such as Pennsylvania and Arizona, where Harris and Trump are locked in a razor-thin race, the Latino vote is crucial in getting them over the finish line -- and knowing how to appeal to the Latino voters in both border states and other battlegrounds is a crucial mission as Election Day nears, experts told ABC News.
40% : "[I'm] hoping to see something we haven't seen before," Pacheco said.Latino voters in battlegrounds share diverse priorities they want Harris, Trump to address originally appeared on abcnews.go.com
32% : "We will not allow these people to invade us or to conquer us," Trump said.
21% : That strategy could appeal to Latinos' views on the economy, an election issue where Trump leads Harris, according to a recent ABC News/Washington Post/Ipsos poll.
19% : "MORE: Obama rips Trump, chides Black men over 'excuses' for not voting for HarrisRepublican strategist Mike Madrid said he agrees that speaking to varying groups of Latinos voters based on their cultural identity has merit, but he said he thinks the campaign should be more focused on Latinos as "working-class voters."
18% : "They're over micro-targeting, and they're not doing enough to focus on the largest common thread, which is an economic populist, pocketbook voter," said Madrid, who co-founded The Lincoln Project to oppose Trump and actively helped Biden in his 2020 presidential bid.

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