PHOENIX — Vice President Kamala Harris' three-day-old presidential campaign will make its first stop in Phoenix on Thursday with two events aimed at Hispanic voters.
The events will be led by civil rights leader Dolores Huerta and presidential campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez.
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Chavez Rodriguez's grandfather, labor leader Cesar Chavez, founded the United Farm Workers with Huerta.
Latino labor leaders and elected officials will join Huerta and Chavez Rodriguez.
The events "will underscore the choice facing Arizonans between Vice President Kamala Harris's positive vision for the future and Trump's Project 2025 agenda, which will drag Americans into the past and make life harder for Latino families across Arizona," according to a statement by the Harris campaign.
Project 2025 is a blueprint for a second Trump Administration that would dramatically remake government. Social welfare programs would be dramatically cut back. It calls for mass deportations of undocumented immigrants - one of Republican Donald Trump's campaign promises.
The Harris campaign now has 12 field offices in Arizona. The first was in Maryvale, a largely Hispanic neighborhood.
The Trump campaign closed its 2020 Hispanic outreach office in south Phoenix. Its 2024 "Latino-Americans for Trump" outreach efforts got off the ground just last month.
Harris has visited Arizona three times in just the last four months. The most recent stop, at the end of June, focused on abortion rights.
Harris' husband, Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, led several campaign events in Phoenix last week before President Biden announced he was stepping aside.
In 2020, Biden won Arizona over then-President Donald Trump by just 11,000 votes. Before Biden ended his re-election campaign, polling showed Trump's lead in the battleground state was in the mid-single digits.
Over the last decade, Latinos' share of Arizona's registered voters has increased with each election cycle, Nationwide polling showed Trump closing his polling gap among Latino voters.
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