John Leguizamo Says Kamala Harris Needs Latino Celeb Endorsement To Get Elected

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John Leguizamo thinks Kamala Harris needs more than just Taylor Swift's endorsement to beat Donald Trump in November ... he says she needs a celeb from the Latin community too.

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00:00Kamala Harris is polling at around 55% for the Latina vote, Joe Biden polled 61%.

00:12But Trump is low, but Trump is nowhere near those numbers.

00:16Well Trump's at 35%.

00:19I thought he was in the 40s.

00:20Kamala is still doing way better and you just got to be more aggressive.

00:25You got to court us.

00:26We're not going to be there waiting for you.

00:28You got to come to us and give us what we need.

00:31You got to have Latin consultants, you have to have Latin experts, you have to talk about

00:34our issues, you have to come into our communities.

00:37You got to have people that look like us and represent us by your side.

00:40You got to have Bad Bunny on one side and Miracle Prayer on the other.

00:45That is an interesting point because a lot was made about Taylor Swift's endorsement

00:50a few weeks ago.

00:52And there are people who would like to see someone from the Latino community, a big celebrity,

00:57an artist, step forward with an endorsement like that.

01:01You mentioned Bad Bunny there.

01:04Is that something that you think would really make a difference?

01:07I think for the young folk, definitely.

01:08I mean, Bad Bunny is the biggest artist in the world, in the world, and really huge in

01:14the Latin community.

01:15So he would get some of the young folk out there for it.

01:19And you know, the Latino population, the majority of us are under 26 years old.

01:24I mean, I'm just a little bit above that.

01:26Just slightly.

01:27Just slightly.

01:28Just slightly.

01:29Just 28.

01:30Donald Trump, I saw a poll over the weekend, he is going up in terms of, you know, courting

01:36the-

01:37Arizona.

01:38Yeah.

01:39Yeah.

01:40So he's going upward.

01:41Trending up.

01:42So is it inflation?

01:44What is it that is driving people toward him and I guess by definition away from Kamala

01:51Harris?

01:52Well, you know, Latino people are not a monolith, you know, we're just not.

01:55No group is.

01:56No group is.

01:57No group is.

01:58Right.

01:59So religious Latinos are, you know, they're anti-abortion and and homophobic.

02:07And so, yeah, I mean, you know, you might get them because the thing that Latinos care

02:13most about is jobs and housing.

02:17You know, so if you if you're talking about startup businesses, Latino women are number

02:23one startup businesses in America.

02:26And we we always Latinos poll very large in keeping the housing market going.

02:31Usually it's 60 percent of housing sales.

02:36So if you're talking in Kamala brought up those points and she's got to keep hitting

02:39those points.

02:40You know, I read an article a month or so ago, which was really interesting.

02:45And they were talking about this whole phenomenon that why Latino voters seem to be moving away

02:51from the Democrats, you know, over time.

02:53And the premise of this article was that there are a lot of Latino Americans who came in

03:02here legally.

03:03And there's almost a resentment of anybody who comes in illegally or even if they come

03:10in, for example, based on political asylum, which has really been opened up over the last

03:15four years.

03:16No, I think I think that's true.

03:18I think a lot of immigrants who came here, you know, are competitive with other immigrants

03:24coming in for some weird reason and have no sympathy or empathy for people looking for

03:29a better life.

03:30Having nobody wants to come through the border that way.

03:33Nobody wants to do that.

03:34You only do that if you have no other option, if you're running away from violence, starving

03:38to death.

03:39I mean, why are you going to risk your life for a better life because they're only coming

03:43here to work to get a job?

03:45No American would risk their life for a job.

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