Harris and Trump campaigns compete for Latina votes: A focus on ‘freedom' and key issues"
The parties have different takes on the economy and reproductive freedom in their appeals to Latinas, whose numbers grew faster than other groups in recent years.
Political organizations supporting Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump are touting both campaigns' messages of “freedom” as they woo Latinas, a key voting bloc.
Hispanic women is the female racial or ethnic group that grew the most in the 12 years from 2010 to 2022, according to the Pew Research Center, growing by 5.6 million and numbering about 22.2 million as of last May. They make up about 17% of the nation's adult female population.
They also turn out to vote in larger numbers than Latino men.
While Latinas have seen gains in education and employment, they still struggle with lower pay and disproportionately live in states with abortion bans.
So it was no accident that Harris, in summarizing her “fight for freedom” platform at the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute conference last Thursday, included, along with freedom to vote and freedom to be safe from gun violence, “freedom of a woman to make decisions about her own body and not having the government telling her what to do.”
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