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Kamala Harris returns to Phoenix as part of latest outreach to Latinos

Kamala Harris returns to Phoenix as part of latest outreach to Latinos

PHOENIX (AZ Family/AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris is returning to several battleground states, including Arizona, with less than a week until Election Day; Polls show the Democratic nominee with former President Donald Trump at a tight margin.

Legendary names are preparing to join him in Phoenix Regional Mexican group Los Tigres Del Norte As part of the campaign’s latest push to increase turnout among Latino voters who have historically favored Democrats and capture last-minute votes from undecided and more socially conservative voters.

A. 2022 Pew Research Center survey It showed that 15% of Latinos in the U.S. identify as Evangelical Protestants. They are the fastest growing group of all American Evangelicals. About half of Latino evangelicals identify as Republicans or right-leaning independents, while 44% identify as Democrats or left-leaning independents.

While U.S. Latinos generally prefer Democratic candidates, the majority of Latino Evangelicals supported Donald Trump in 2020. Nearly six in 10 Latino evangelical voters supported Trump in 2020, while four in 10 evangelical voters supported Biden, according to AP Votecast.

A Row questionnaire The report, released last month, showed that nearly two-thirds of Latino Protestants plan to support Trump this year, while nearly two-thirds of Hispanic Catholics and religiously unaffiliated Hispanics said they support Vice President Kamala Harris.

Kamala Harris says Trump’s comment about women ‘made everyone uncomfortable’

Harris said Thursday that Donald Trump’s comment that he would protect women “whether they like it or not” shows that the Republican presidential candidate does not understand women’s right to “make decisions about their own lives, including their own bodies.”

“I think it’s offensive to everybody, by the way,” Harris said before departing to spend the day campaigning in the Western battleground states of Arizona and Nevada.

Trump’s remarks come at a time when he is struggling to connect with female voters and Harris is courting women in both parties with a freedom-focused message. She argues that women should be free to make their own decisions about their bodies and that more restrictions will come if Trump is elected.

Trump appointed three of the U.S. Supreme Court justices who formed the conservative majority that overturned federal abortion rights. As the effects of the 2022 decision spreadHe began claiming at public events and social media posts that: “he would protect women” and make sure they are “not considering abortion.”

At a rally near Green Bay, Wisconsin, on Wednesday evening, Trump told supporters that aides had pressured him to stop using the phrase because it was “inappropriate.”

Then he added a new one to his protection line. He said he told his aides: “I’m going to do this whether the women want it or not. I will protect them.”

Harris said these words were part of Trump’s disturbing statements.

“This is just the latest in a long series of statements the former president has made about what he thinks about women and their representation,” he said.

Trump’s comments increased the sniping between the campaigns as both compete for female voters, who typically make up the majority of the electorate. Mark Cuban, a surrogate for billionaire businessman Harris, said in an interview with “The View” that Trump “never surrounded himself with strong, intelligent women.”

Cuban’s remarks drew swift rebukes from women involved in Trump’s political operation; campaign chief Susie Wiles said in a rare social media post that she was “proud to lead this campaign.” Campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt also went after Cuban, saying he was “insinuating that female Trump supporters are ‘weak and stupid.'”

The dispute showed signs Thursday that each candidate’s supporters are becoming more entrenched.

Women weren’t the only ones who called Trump’s remarks offensive. At the Harris rally in Phoenix, 50-year-old Edison Kinlicheenie said he saw Trump as a threat rather than a protector, saying the former president history of preying on women.

“I have a wife and a daughter, so I wouldn’t let a predator like that come around,” Kinlicheenie said.

At a Trump rally in Albuquerque, 41-year-old Sarah Pyle voiced opposition to allowing transgender athletes to compete in women’s events to portray Trump as someone who helps women.

“I don’t want my daughters to grow up in a world like this,” the Albuquerque mother said, referring to the controversy. “We have fought for women’s rights for so long, and now we are giving those rights back to men. It doesn’t make any sense.”

More broadly, Trump and Republicans are struggling with how to talk about abortion rights, especially at a time when women across the country are grappling with getting proper medical care because of abortion restrictions that have consequences far beyond the ability to end an unwanted pregnancy.

Embers gave contradictory answers He flaunts his stance on abortion, saying at some points that women should be punished for having abortions and the judges he appoints. During his successful campaign in 2016, he told voters that if he were elected, Roe v. He said he would appoint justices to the Supreme Court to overturn the Wade case and said he was “pro-life.”

But in recent weeks he has vowed to veto a national abortion ban after repeatedly refusing to make such a commitment. He said states must regulate care and that some laws are “too strict.”

The disorganization of state laws regarding abortion since 2022 leads to disparity in medical care. Some women died. Others bleed in emergency car parks or they became critically ill from sepsis because doctors in states where abortion was strictly banned kept pregnant women away until they became sick enough to require medical care. This includes women who never intend to terminate a pregnancy. Both infant and maternal deaths increased.

Trump’s statements about women came to the fore in Harris’ campaign. A woman in a campaign ad Suffering from severe sepsis after a pregnancy complication As an audio recording of Trump’s comments about protecting women plays, she stands in front of the mirror and looks at the large scar on her stomach.

Harris hopes abortion will be a powerful motivator for women at the ballot box.

In early voting so far, 1.2 million more women than men have voted in seven battleground states, according to data from analytics firm TargetSmart.

This doesn’t necessarily mean Democratic gains. However, there was a 9 percentage point gap between men and women in support for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in the 2020 presidential election. AP VotingA survey of more than 110,000 voters.

The Democratic Party’s proposal was supported by 55 percent of women and 46 percent of men. That hasn’t changed much since the 2018 midterms, when VoteCast found a 10-point gender gap, with 58% of women and 48% of men supporting Democrats in congressional races.

Harris is scheduled to hold rallies on Thursday in Phoenix, Reno, Nevada and Las Vegas. Trump, meanwhile, is traveling to New Mexico and Virginia in the final days of the campaign, taking a risky detour from seven battleground states to spend time in places where Republican presidential candidates have failed to win in decades.

Harris On Wednesday, he called on Americans to “stop pointing fingers at each other” as he sought to challenge past comments he’s made about President Joe Biden. Donald Trump’s supporters and the “garbage ” and focus on his Republican opponent in the closing days of the race.

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