Harris makes pitch to Latino voters at Univision town hall: Top 5 moments

Vice President Kamala Harris connected Thursday took questions from Latino voters astatine a municipality hallway successful Nevada, wherever she was pressed for specifics connected her proposals connected immigration, the system and more.

Harris faced astir a twelve questions during the astir hour-long lawsuit hosted by Univision, wherever she sought to triumph implicit this cardinal demographic radical with conscionable 26 days to spell earlier Election Day. The Democratic nominee pointed to her grounds arsenic vice president and swung ferociously astatine her opponent, Republican erstwhile President Donald Trump, but she was airy connected specifics connected her plans for the country. 

Here are the highlights: 

VOTERS IN KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES GIVE TRUMP AN EDGE OVER HARRIS ON THIS TOP TIER ISSUE: POLL

Democratic Presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris walks implicit to Latino elector Ivett Castillo, who precocious mislaid her mother, during a Univision Town Hall successful Las Vegas, Nevada connected Thursday October 10, 2024. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Harris pushes backmost connected Trump attacks implicit hurricane response

In the archetypal question of the night, a elector from Tampa asked Harris astir rumors that the Biden-Harris medication did not bash capable to respond to Hurricanes Helene and Milton. Former President Trump, the Republican nominee, has fanned those rumors, claiming astatine a caller rally that President Biden's effect to the storms was "the worst hurricane effect since Katrina," invoking the heavy criticized national effect to Hurricane Katrina successful 2005.

Harris defended the Biden administration, accusing critics of "playing governmental games" and insisting claims the effect was inadequate are "just not accurate." She said she has been moving with radical connected the crushed successful Georgia, North Carolina, Florida and different southeastern states to get Federal Emergency Management Administration (FEMA) resources to radical successful need. 

"Another portion of enactment that I've been doing, it's based connected my years of being an lawyer wide successful California, is telling those corporations and those companies that during situation and emergencies jack up prices," Harris said. "I've seen it hap before, that we're watching them and astatine a infinitesimal of desperation for these individuals and families, whether it beryllium to beryllium capable to get impermanent structure astatine a edifice for state prices, for adjacent hose tickets, that we'll beryllium watching if they're jacking up prices to marque definite they'll beryllium superior consequence. And that's the benignant of enactment I volition bash going forward."

TRUMP CHARGES HURRICANE RESPONSE ‘WORST SINCE KATRINA’ AS BIDEN ARGUES TRUMP ‘ONSLAUGHT OF LIES’ MUST ‘STOP’

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA: Democratic Presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris takes questions from Latino voters during a Univision Town Hall successful Las Vegas, Nevada connected Thursday October 10, 2024. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images) (Melina Mara/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

On immigration, Harris won't accidental however she'd beryllium antithetic than Biden

Voters pressed Harris for specifics connected her plans for immigration and however her policies would disagree from President Biden's. 

In her answer, Harris pointed to her caller travel to sojourn the borderline successful Arizona and her instrumentality enforcement vocation arsenic a authoritative and California lawyer wide to amusement she's superior astir borderline security. 

"I volition enactment my grounds up against anyone successful presumption of the enactment I've ever done, and it volition ever beryllium to guarantee we person a unafraid border," she said. 

Harris besides criticized Trump for starring Republican absorption to a bipartisan borderline information woody that was endorsed by the National Border Patrol Council successful February. She claimed the measure would person sent 1,500 further Border Patrol agents to the borderline and supply instrumentality enforcement resources to combat fentanyl trafficking. 

Republicans accidental the borderline measure provided excessively galore benefits to amerciable immigrants, similar enactment permits and taxpayer-funded attorneys, and would person funded sanctuary metropolis jurisdictions that bash not cooperate with migration enforcement.

Harris said determination is simply a "false choice" betwixt a unafraid borderline and humane migration policy. But she did not explicate however her policies would beryllium antithetic from Biden, who besides supported the borderline bill.

DEM STRATEGISTS FRET HARRIS ‘SUGAR HIGH’ IS OVER: ‘IF YOU’RE NOT NERVOUS, YOU'RE NOT PAYING ATTENTION'

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks astatine a run lawsuit connected Thursday, Oct. 10, connected the Gila River Indian Community preservation successful Chandler, Ariz.  (AP/Ross D. Franklin)

Emotional infinitesimal arsenic pistillate asks astir wellness care

An affectional infinitesimal came erstwhile a Las Vegas woman, Ivett Castillo, told Harris that she precocious mislaid her parent earlier she could get her migration presumption legalized. 

"She was ne'er capable to get the benignant of attraction and work that she needed oregon deserved," Castillo said, holding backmost tears. She asked however Harris would assistance amerciable immigrants who "have to unrecorded and dice successful the shadows." 

Another voter, Francisco Medina of San Diego, California, told the vice president that contempt his security sum done the Defense Department, helium had to transverse the borderline into Mexico to person treatment. He asked however she would amended the aesculapian system.

"I firmly and profoundly judge that healthcare is simply a right, and should beryllium a close and not conscionable a privilege of those who tin spend it oregon person entree to it easily," Harris said. 

She pointed to the Biden administration's efforts to fortify the Affordable Care Act and headdress medicine cause prices arsenic a starting constituent for what she'd bash arsenic president. 

"The enactment we person done has been astir capping the outgo of medicine medicine for seniors astatine $2,000," she said. "My volition arsenic president of the United States is to marque that disposable for not conscionable seniors, but for everyone."

Trump-leaning elector confronts Harris connected leaving Biden behind

At 1 constituent during the municipality hall, a self-described autarkic elector said helium was leaning towards voting for Trump due to the fact that Harris did not triumph the Democratic information done the mean superior process.

"I'm a small confused," said Mario Sigbaum, of Santa Monica, California. "Being a campaigner without going done the mean process – that is superior elections oregon done a caucus – that truly caught my attention." He demanded an mentation for however Biden was "completely destituted." 

Harris thanked him for being "candid." She called Biden's determination to retreat from the predetermination amid mounting unit from the Democratic Party "one of the astir courageous a president could make" and said helium "put state supra his idiosyncratic interest." 

"He made that decision, he… wrong that aforesaid play of clip supported my candidacy and urged maine to run," Harris said. "He and I person been partners for the past 4 years arsenic his vice president to him arsenic the president. And I americium honored to person earned the Democratic nomination."

She went connected to accidental determination is simply a "huge contrast" successful this predetermination and asserted Trump would beryllium a "dictator connected time one," calling the concern "unprecedented" with "support for democracy" connected the ballot. 

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Harris can't accidental 3 bully things astir Trump

In the closing moments of the municipality hall, 1 elector asked if Harris could sanction 3 virtues of her Republican opponent. She could not.

"I deliberation Donald Trump loves his household and I deliberation that's precise important," she said. "But I don't truly cognize him to beryllium honorable with you. I lone met him 1 clip connected the statement stage. I'd ne'er met him before." 

Harris came up abbreviated searching for 2 different virtues. Instead, she criticized Trump for taking an "us versus them" attack and utilizing divisive language.

"I don't deliberation that's steadfast for our nation, and I don't respect that." 

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