How and Why the Trump and Harris Campaigns Are Targeting Latino Voters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

72% : Like Harris, when it comes to Latino outreach, Trump has emphasized his economic platform.
70% : But whereas Harris has prioritized the economy over the border in her pitch to Latino voters, Trump has actually made immigration a focus.
61% : In Arizona, which has the highest number of Latino voters among swing states at about 1.3 million, Trump won the state by less than 100,000 votes in 2016 and President Joe Biden won by just over 10,000 in 2020.
58% : oh, do you have such energy," Trump said in Las Vegas on Oct. 12.When he met with Latino business leaders in a roundtable in Doral, Fla. on Tuesday, Trump referred to his 2017 tax cuts: "We gave you the biggest cut in taxes in the history of the country," he said.
52% : Trump won 28% of Latino voters in 2016, according to exit polls, and 32% in 2020.
44% : Indeed, in Pennsylvania, which is the biggest swing state in the Electoral College and which Trump won by less than 50,000 votes in 2016 and lost in 2020 by about 80,000 votes, Latino voters number more than 570,000.
43% : And in his Oct. 16 Univision town hall, Trump mentioned that he will support greater oil drilling to address inflation, perhaps in an effort to appeal to the significant number of Latinos who work in the oil and gas industry.
37% : "Both Trump and Harris are trying to change that, and reports and polling have indicated that Trump has made significant inroads, especially among Latino men.
31% : While Trump is known for his anti-immigrant rhetoric, American journalist Paola Ramos, author of Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far
24% : She made another post that said Trump doesn't care about Latino men or their families, citing increases in crime and unemployment.
17% : "In speaking to Latino voters, including during Trump's Univision town hall and campaign events in Arizona, Trump and his running mate Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance have not shied away from the topic of immigration, criticizing the Biden-Harris administration and emphasizing that immigrants "have to come in legally."Carlos Trujillo, a senior adviser for Trump's campaign on Latino issues, said in a New Yorker profile published this week: "One of the biggest insults that you hear from most people in the media is, 'Oh, Hispanics are in favor of illegal immigration.'

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