By james art Former President Trump held a roundtable of Latino leaders in Miami on Tuesday, hours after a new poll showed him leading Vice President Harris in the key voting bloc by 11 points.
The former president held the event at Trump National Doral Miami, where he joined Latino leaders such as Florida GOP Reps. Maria Salazar and Carlos Gimenez, Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, Florida Sen. Rick Scott and Hialeah Mayor Esteban Bovo.
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During the event, Trump criticized Harris, who was in Washington on Tuesday and had no campaign events.
“She’s sleeping right now, she can’t walk down the aisle,” Trump said. “You know, you’d think that when you’ve got 14 days left, you’re not going to sleep. She’s not doing anything today. I need to get one of these; we went 52 days in a row.”
Donald Trump speaks at the “Faith and Freedom to the Majority” conference in Washington, DC on June 22, 2024. (Andrew Layden/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
Trump added: “I’ve got 14 days left and we’re going to have a big victory party, I hope.”
Trump criticized Harris for taking a day off from campaigning, calling her “lazy” and a “radical left-wing lunatic.”
“The Latin American community knows that President Donald J. Trump is the only candidate who can bring prosperity back to America,” the Trump campaign said ahead of Tuesday’s event. “That’s why they will turn out in record numbers on November 5th to vote for him as the 47th President of the United States.”
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The event comes after a new USA Today/University Suffolk poll showed Trump leading Harris by 11 percentage points among Latino voters.
The poll puts Harris at 45% and Trump at 44% nationally, but with Hispanic voters in particular, Harris has slipped in support. The new poll found Latino voters backing Trump 49 percent to Harris’ 38 percent.
The poll showed black voters favoring Harris 72 percent to 17 percent, but that 55-point advantage is significantly smaller than the advantage traditionally enjoyed by Democrats.
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump (Getty Images)
President Biden benefited from overwhelming support from black and Latino voters four years ago. A Pew Research Center analysis found that 92 percent of black and 59 percent of Hispanic voters supported Biden in the 2020 race.
But Trump made huge inroads among Hispanic and black voters in the 2024 race, courting men while campaigning on the economy and crime.
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Meanwhile, Harris, on Tuesday after the poll was released, released his plan to “deliver real change for Latino men and their families,” including helping them find jobs; helping them grow a small business with interest-free loans or deferred repayment loans and fully forgivable loans up to $20,000; providing $25,000 in down payment assistance for first-time home buyers; expanding the child tax credit; and coverage of long-term home care costs through Medicare.