POLITICO Nightly: Latino support for Harris isn't where it needs to be
By Charlie Mahtesian and Ali Bianco Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris arrives at a rally on Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024, in Las Vegas. | Carolyn Kaster/AP MARGIN OF ERROR — Tonight’s Univision town hall with Kamala Harris offers her a rare opportunity to speak directly to a nationwide audience of Latino voters and it couldn’t come at a better time for her campaign. It coincides with a spate of public polling that suggests if Democrats aren’t worried yet about her performance among Latino voters, they probably should be. Nationally, polls show she’s winning Latinos by a wide margin, but underperforming Joe Biden’s 2020 level of support with them. That’s also true in an assortment of states, including the three that hold roughly half of the U.S. Latino population — California, Florida and Texas. A newly released California poll has Harris winning Latinos by a 54-35 percent margin over Donald Trump — a far cry from 2020, when Biden...