Scoop: Dolores Huerta endorses Harris for president

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Source: Axios

2 hours ago


Labor activist Dolores Huerta on Thursday formally endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris for president.

Why it matters: Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez in the early 1960s, is an influential voice among Latino voters who Harris needs to help propel her to the presidency — especially in swing states.

Zoom in: Huerta is scheduled to stump for Harris on Thursday with campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez at an event in a Phoenix neighborhood with a large Hispanic population.

"I've known Kamala Harris for a long time — and I've seen firsthand how she fights relentlessly for Latino communities, working families, and for every American," Huerta said in a statement.

"Today, I'm thrilled to endorse Vice President Harris to be our next president of the United States, because I know she'll be our fierce champion in the White House."

Flashback: Huerta and Harris go way back to the vice president's days in California politics.

Huerta endorsed and campaigned with Harris when she ran for California Attorney General in 2010.

She also endorsed Harris during her 2020 bid for president and co-chaired her campaign.

Read more: https://www.axios.com/2024/07/25/kamala-harris-dolores-huerta-latino-voters

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1. Great news! I'm sure that *

* something as wonderful as this will surely piss-off that woman, Susan Sarandon. You'll recall that Dolores Huerta engaged in a shouting-match with actress Susan Sarandon. Sarandon and another angry Bernie Sanders supporter yell at Huerta—who co-founded United Farm Workers with the famed Cesar Chavez—but Sarandon accuses her of "destroying unions" by stumping for Hillary Clinton.

Pathetic. Unforgivable.

[LisaM]

2. That still grinds me.

IIRC, all Delores Huerta did was volunteer to translate for people.

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4. Sarandon got all up in Huerta's face to give

her a lecture on who she should support.

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5. They support unions/laborers

until unions/laborers ever so slightly disagree with them, then they're class traitors, pro-imperialism, "boot lickers"…. It's almost like they don't actually care about workers. Huh.

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3. why it matters is analysis and opinion not LBN IMO nt

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6. It's how Axios does all of their news articles

Reuters even does some that way to supposedly format the content in some kind of logical order.