Union Leader Dolores Huerta Supports Kamala Harris
Union leader Dolores Huerta (L), U.S. Photo: X/ @KamalaForIA
July 25, 2024 Hour: 10:39 am
The United Farm Workers co-founder will be part of the campaign events that Harris will lead in Arizona.
On Thursday, the historic labor leader and civil rights activist Dolores Huerta announced her support for the U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s candidate for the November elections.
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Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers (UFW) union with Cesar Chavez, will be part of the campaign events that Harris will lead this Thursday in Phoenix, Arizona.
Julie Chavez-Rodriguez, Harris’s campaign director and also the granddaughter of Cesar Chavez, highlighted Huerta’s support for the nomination of the current vice president with the goal of defeating the “anti-union and anti-Latino agenda” of the Republican candidate, Donald Trump.
Harris is a “fighter for the American people” and represents a “marked contrast with Donald Trump, who has spent his entire life scamming workers for his own benefit,” Chavez-Rodriguez said.
Harris’s campaign director referred to Project 2025, the alleged government agenda of the Republican candidate that “would increase costs for the American people,” whereas “Kamala Harris understands what Latino families face every day.”
Harris’s campaign is focused on key states like Arizona, where in 2020 Joe Biden narrowly defeated Trump by about 11,000 votes, and before Biden withdrew from the re-election race, polls showed him trailing the Republican by less than one percentage point.
In the last four months, the vice president has visited Arizona three times, the most recent visit being in late June to lead rallies on women’s reproductive rights.
Author: teleSUR/ JF
Source: EFE