Latino voters who still do not know who they will vote for on November 5 will have the opportunity to hear directly from the two candidates. Both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump accepted Univision’s invitation to participate in forums with Hispanic voters in Miami, in the case of the Republican, and in Las Vegas, in the case of the Democrat. Although the style forums town hall will be held separately, it is possible that the events will be one of the last occasions for both candidates to connect with the undecided electorate, given that the former president continues to insist that he will not participate in a second debate with the vice president.
In the forums, the two candidates are expected to address key issues for this electorate, including the economy, inflation, employment, immigration and foreign policy, as predicted by Univision. Both events will take place next month: Trump’s will air on October 8 at 10 pm East Coast time and Harris’s on October 10 at the same time. The Mexican journalist Enrique Acevedo will be the moderator, although the attendees themselves will be the ones who will ask questions to each candidate.
“Univision News serves as a two-way bridge: we bring all voices to our community and at the same time we convey the concerns of Latinos to those in power,” Daniel Coronell, president of Univision News, said in a statement when it was made public. information about the meetings. The two sessions will be broadcast in English on the Univision News YouTube channel and will be broadcast with Spanish translation on Univision and ViX’s Noticias 24/7 channel.
These elections there are 36 million Latinos with the right to vote, a record number. Of them, surveys indicate that between 10 and 15% are undecided. Their votes will be key to deciding which side the balance will be in a month’s time, especially in three of the courted seven swing states: Nevada, Arizona and Pennsylvania, territories that concentrate a high proportion of Latino voters. Traditionally, Latinos tend to vote blue, although a significant number have moved to the red camp in recent years. However, since Harris entered the race, support for the Democratic candidacy has increased among Latinos. A survey published this Tuesday by the Pew think tank shows that 57% of them would vote for Harris, compared to 36% who said they would vote for Joe Biden in July. Only 39% said they would opt for Trump.
And now that the campaign enters the final stretch, with only 40 days left, these two forums could be the last opportunity for the candidates to connect with the voters they need. It does not seem that there will be another meeting between the former president and the vice president: although Harris agreed to participate in a second presidential debate two weeks before the meeting at the polls, Trump rejected it. “The problem with having another debate is that it is too late. “The voting has already started,” he said, insisting that he won his only head-to-head with Harris, despite the vast majority of experts and voters saying otherwise.
