LAS VEGAS (EFE).— The Latino vote in Nevada, one of the key states for the US elections, is disputed between those whose lack of motivation keeps them reluctant to vote, those who hope that the Republican candidate Donald Trump improve the country’s economy and others who see Democrat Kamala Harris as hope for their community.
“I don’t know if I’m going to vote, I’ve never voted because I don’t think there is anyone who is worth it. It seems to me that all politicians offer the same thing, in different ways and with different dialogue, but they are all the same,” Alexandra, a Las Vegas resident born in California to Mexican parents, says in an interview with EFE.
According to the Pew Research Center, at least 36.6 million Latinos, the second-largest population in the US, are eligible to vote this year.
In 2020, Joe Biden beat Trump in this group of voters in Nevada by 26 percentage points, and this year, according to a study by Blair Search Partners from August, Kamala leads the Republican by only 23 points among Latino voters in that state.
“Wake up”
This small progress by Trump responds to “the awakening” that the Latino community is having, according to the perspective of the Colombian pastor residing in Henderson, Camilo Pérez.
Pérez says he supported Democrats like Barack Obama in the past, but that high prices, the difficult economic situation and the values promoted by the party led him to support Trump since the last elections.
“In the church we feel protected with Trump, in some way he was a good guardian for the church and morals even though his background is not very conservative,” responded the pastor, who met with the Republican in 2020 to express to the tycoon the needs of the people of his community.
Pérez differs from the Democrats mainly in his fight for the right to abortion, one of the main points of the campaign of Kamala Harris, who has promised that she will sign a bill to restore reproductive freedom throughout the country: “That makes the Latin community becomes very discouraged,” considers Camilo Pérez.
On the other hand, Viridiana Vidal, an entrepreneur from the State of Mexico, will vote for Kamala, excited that for the first time “a woman who is the daughter of immigrants and of color” comes to power in the United States.
The Republican’s “racist” speech is one of the main reasons that distance her from Trump’s political ideas, in addition to the lack of “content” and order in the proposals he proposes.
“Harris has more plans and when you listen to Trump’s speeches they make no sense. It’s like the saying ‘create fame and go to sleep’, and that’s what he did, he has created a reputation that the numbers were better in his administration when they weren’t,” he explains.
Viridiana does not believe that support for Trump on the part of the Latino community is increasing; she considers that “apathy” and ignorance of the electoral process is one of the main reasons why Latinos do not exercise their right to vote.
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