Black and Asian American voters collectively made up just 15% of the turnout in Texas’ 2020 and 2022 elections, according to exit polls.
Beverly Hatcher wears a VOTE necklace in her home in Beaumont on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Hatcher had seen Michelle Obama wearing a similar necklace and immediately bought some for herself and others.emerged this week as the prohibitive favorite
“I never thought I could feel more excited than the moment when President Obama took the office,” she said. “But this is a whole new adventure for America. It shows that even through recent rhetoric and divisiveness, America has taken true steps to diversity and equality.” That’s part of a record $100 million haul for the Harris ticket in the first 36 hours of her campaign.
Beverly Hatcher in her garden home in Beaumont on Tuesday, July 23, 2024. Hatcher, who takes great pride in being an older American, loves Joe Biden and was shocked when he dropped out of the race. But after joining a Zoom call with tens of thousands of other Black women, she's looking forward to voting for Kamala Harris as a delegate in Chicago and for president in the November election.
Pooja Sethi, an Indian American who runs the Travis County Democratic Party in Austin, said she had not even finished reading Biden’s letter announcing his decision to drop out of the race on Sunday, when her phone started pinging with text messages from people as young as 15 and as old as 80 asking how to get involved in the campaign.
But there are also parts of the Indian American electorate who are more conservative, including Abraham George, an Indian immigrant who is the new chair of the Texas GOP. Narayan said immigration is also a huge concern for Indian Americans, many of whom had to wait months or years for visas to enter the country legally. Republicans“You won’t find somebody who is more opposed to illegal immigration than a legal immigrant who has had to wait patiently to get in the right way,” he said.
Even among constituencies that support Harris, there are questions about her history as a prosecutor in California. Harris has billed herself as a “progressive prosecutor” but
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