Senate Majority Leader, Chuck Schumer (New York) announced that Vice President Kamala Harris would support comprehensive immigration reform.
“Yes, yes… she would support comprehensive immigration reform”the senator said in a telephone interview. “I have spoken to her about the issue and even when I tried to push her [la reforma] In the Senate a few years ago, when she was there, she joined in.”
Schumer was excited to talk about how Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign has progressed and the response from Latino voters, and also said that he will campaign with her at some point.
“Yes, absolutely,” the top Democrat in Congress said in Spanish.
Schumer and House Majority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (N.Y.) pushed for President Joe Biden to drop his reelection bid and then endorsed Vice President Harris.
How have you viewed the vice president’s campaign and the response from voters?he was questioned.
“I am thrilled. Let me just say that the enthusiasm for Kamala Harris from one end of the Democratic Party to the other, from the most progressive to the most conservative, is just amazing,” the senator said.
He added that such enthusiasm touches every ethnicity and race of voters, including Latinos.
“It is strong in all communities. It is strong in minority communities as well. And I was surprised while participating, as I always do. [en el] the Dominican parade in the Bronx. [La gente me decía] “We love Harris, we want her to be elected,” the senator said.
He highlighted the more than $200 million that Vice President Harris’ campaign has raised in less than two weeks, mostly from small donors who carry between $5 and $20 dollars.
The enthusiasm of Latino voters
Although he did not consider that immigration is the only issue that interests Latinos, the senator acknowledged that the Increase in potential voters in key statessuch as Florida, Georgia and Texas, are examples of how these voters feel about Democrats following the possible candidacy of Vice President Harris.
“It shows that we are trying to address the border issue, which I know we have been in the Latino world. I love immigrants, I am a pro-immigrant person. In fact, my middle name is Ellis after Ellis Island and my daughter’s name is Emma, after the police officer who wrote on the Statue of Liberty,” she said.
He stressed the enthusiasm among Latino voters.
“I’m totally excited about this. Latinos are excited“I’ve seen it,” he added. “I’ve been amazed at how excited they are, so I feel really good about this campaign.”
Senator Schumer criticized former President Donald Trump, calling him a “terrible candidate,” following his remarks to black journalists.
“We saw what he said at the black journalists meeting yesterday, and it was basically like this. It was in his cases of racism and, you know, there is racism in America. We all know that the Latino community knows it very well, but most of the time when they see racism they try to suppress it and say it’s bad. Donald Trump not only dismisses attacking it most of the time, he often exalts it and propagates it. And it’s horrible. It’s horrible for the country,” Schumer said.
Who will be Harris’s vice president?
Senator Schumer evaded answering whether he supported Senator Mark Kelly (Arizona) as vice presidential candidate by Kamala Harris.
“I leave it to the vice president,” he said. “My view is that she will make the right choice to strengthen her candidacy and I will have confidence in whoever she chooses.”
Schumer noted that, unlike in other years, Democrats have more options for potential candidates or candidates to join the ticket.
“She has a lot of good options. A few years ago, everyone was saying that the Democrats didn’t have a team, but now we have a strong team,” he said.
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