A Kamala Harris Canvasser's Education

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : A d.j. from La Mega, the local Spanish-language contemporary radio station, played thumping dance tunes.
46% : A retired police officer shouted me down when I asked him to explain his support for Trump, given that the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, had injured a hundred and forty law enforcement officers.
38% : I shared a video by the salsa star Marc Anthony, who said with grim intensity that he had not forgotten when Trump blocked funds for Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
37% : I recorded their responses, indicating whether they were "strong" for Harris--definitely voting for her-- "strong" for Trump, or were still in some murky terrain of indecision, in which case I was on: I had a minute or two to launch my pitch to sway them.
36% : She said she deeply feared that Trump, a court-confirmed sexual predator, would only encourage the rampant, unseen sexual abuse and violence against women in her community.
32% : But what I encountered at the doors in Latino neighborhoods were disaffected people under severe economic stress -- workers with little time to watch television and no consistent or reliable channels for political news, who received scattershot information about both Harris and Trump on their mobile phones, and were disgusted by what they perceived as the nasty and pointless name-calling they saw there.
32% : At one household, where my mobile app told me the family included four registered Democrats, the eldest member saw my Harris-Walz button and shouted to the street, "Fuck Trump!"
31% : I connected with more than one Latina mother when I asked whether Trump, with his lying and philandering, was the example she wanted for her children.
27% : But, on June 27th, as I watched the debate between President Joe Biden and Trump, I was overcome with dismay.
26% : I talked about what I remembered from 2020, when friends were dying of COVID-19, millions of Americans lost their jobs, and Trump suggested we inject bleach into our bodies.
25% : He was a pastor in a local Protestant church, and he expressed disbelief that Trump, after his attempt to overthrow the results of the 2020 election, his felony convictions, the court case that found him liable for sexual abuse, and his increasingly erratic and crude behavior, was even close to Harris in the polls.
25% : This is what I was up against: Trump was broadcasting on some direct wavelength with his followers, and he had drawn them into his alternate universe of looming economic disaster, menacing migrants, and outrages perpetrated by Democrats against their children, which only he was visionary enough to see and strong enough to combat.
12% : That night, Trump unleashed a barrage of lies about immigrants and asylum seekers.

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