In majority Latino Allentown, second gentleman Doug Emhoff courts voters for Harris-Walz ticket
In Pennsylvania’s largest city with a majority Latino population, second gentleman Doug Emhoff told voters and volunteers that Vice President Kamala Harris would ensure continued opportunity and prosperity for families hoping to start businesses and build generational wealth if she is elected president.
“This is all about creating an opportunity economy where all of us, every one of us, can succeed,” Emhoff said Saturday in Allentown, where he visited a Harris-Walz campaign field office to kick off a neighborhood door-knocking effort and a city high school to speak at a rally.
With the potential for Pennsylvania’s 579,000 eligible Latino voters to sway the outcome in a battleground state where the last two presidential elections were determined by narrow margins, the Harris-Walz campaign and former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee, have worked to reach them.
Latinos, who make up more than half the population of Allentown, Pennsylvania’s third-largest city, remain behind several other demographic groups in significant economic measures, according to a voter profile released this week by the UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute.
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