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38 days: Kamala Harris secures crucial Latino support, reaching 2020 levels.

It will make all the difference she needs.

Shankar Narayan
5 min readSep 27, 2024

Give me 1,000 polls from various pollsters, and give me one poll from the Pew Research Center — I’ll always choose the one from Pew. It’s enough. It’s more than enough. The numbers released by Pew have reduced my concerns about Latino support for Kamala Harris.

An estimated 36.2 million Latinos are eligible to vote this year, up from 32.3 million in 2020. This represents 50% of the total growth in eligible voters during this period.

For every two voters added to the rolls in the last four years, one is a Latino voter. It goes without saying that Latinos can sway election results in presidential, statewide, and local races across the country. Their choices become even more critical in battleground states.

Whatever impact they had in 2020, we need to double it in 2024 — maybe even more. Just as their importance on the electoral scale kept…

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Shankar Narayan
Shankar Narayan

Written by Shankar Narayan

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