an idea of what lulac is and what lulac does? the country's oldest and largest civil rights organization. over 246,000 members in all 50 states. we advocate for the civil rights of latinos in the united states. >> not democrats or republicans latinos. latinos? >> independents, democrat, republicans, of all stripes. >> talk about the latino vote. it's the latino voter, because every single latino voter may be different in what are the conditions and circumstances that they decide when they go to the ballot box, but i'm wondering. it's important for people to know the strength of the latino voter in our country. >> and, you know, always said it's a sleeping giant. i saw do you the piece on georgia, for example. in texas, there are 12.1 million latinos. >> yep. >> we outnon-hispanic whites in texas. if you factor in hispanics, african american, asians in texas alone, that's 60% of the population. texas is and has been majority minority state, but in georgia, there are a million latinos. actually less than 5% of the population, signi

but lulac officials are saying this could not be further from the truth. there were at least six different raids that we to know at this point that took place last week, there could be even more and lulac officials say that this is all much ado about nothing that no illegal activity is song going attorney general paxton is using his position of authority to harass in. >> intimidate latino non-profit organizations latino leaders, and lulac members. this point blank voter intimidation. and lulac will fight for the right are very latino to exercise their right to vote and jim, one of the people who had their homes raided also last week was an 87-year-old woman named lydia martinez, who tells us that she has been involved in local politics it's for many decades, many decades helping registers senior citizens and veterans to vote. >> she is adamant that she has done nothing wrong, has followed all the rules in the voter registration he shouldn't process. she says she was targeted for about three hours last week and forced to wait on her front porch in her bathr

. >> reporter: trump's rhetoric on the issue helped prompt lulac, the nations oldest latino support organization, to back harris the first time they have backed a president so candidate. she still got some ground to make up to match president biden's performance with hispanic voters back in 2020. >> i haven't heard a plan of what a she is do for us. >> eporter: former president trump is attending his first political rally all week tonight in bozeman, montana. late this afternoon from his plane diverted to billings, montana, because of a mechanical issue. the former president is comfortably ahead in deep red montana, and his team has not said when he plans to make his

lulac's president says this is voter suppression. >> it is evident through his patterns of lawsuits,ds, searches, and seizures, that he is trying to keep latinos from voting. >> reporter: now the organizations asking the justice department to investigate paxton. in a letter first obtained by cbs news, they called his actions "a serious violation of the civil rights of latino citizens." cecilia castellano is running for a hotly-contested state house seat and says officers executed a search warrant at her home. >> i believe that this is plain old politics, that the republicans are just trying to suppress the voice of the latino community, trying to suppress me. that's not going to happen. >> reporter: we reached out to paxton for comment but did not hear back. now a propublica report found between january 2020 and september of 2022, paxton's office opened up at least 390 cases for potential election crimes, but of those cases, only five lead to conviction. norah? >> norah: omar villafranca with that new reporting today, thank you. new concerns tonight about a rare mosquito-borne diseas

lo que sean. >> la organizaciÓn lulac declaÓo hoy tambiÉn que presentarÁn una queja formal contra paxtonrcer aniversario del atentado suicida que matÓ a 13 miembros del servicio estadounidense en afganistÁn. >> trump calificÓ de humillaciÓn el ataque y vinculÓ a la vicepresidenta kamala harris con la caÓtica retirada de las tropas de estados unidos de afganistÁn. miembros del grupo legislativo bipartidista que investiga el atentado al expresidente trump, visitaron el lugar en el que ocurriÓ este ataque en butler, pennsylvania, el 13 de julio. los legisladores observaron de primera mano el Área, incluso subieron al techo desde donde thomas crooks disparÓ ocho veces e hiriÓ al ex mandatario y a dos asistentes al mitin. ademÁs, matÓ a una tercera persona, el recorrido fue antes de la reuniÓn con los oficiales que actuaron ese dÍa en venezuela. edmundo garcÍa recibe otra citaciÓn de la fiscalÍa y un alto funcionario electoral habla sobre las elecciones del 28 de julio en mÉxico. la cÁmara de diputados inicia la discusiÓn por la reforma al poder judicial. el reforma al poder judicial. el tema

. >> reporter: trump's rhetoric on the issue helped prompt lulac, the nation's oldest and largest latino civil rights organization, to endorse harris today, the first time they've ever backed a presidential candidate. nationally, harris leads trump, 52% to 47% among hispanic voters. but she still got some ground to make up to match president biden's performance with hispanic voters back in 2020. >> i haven't heard a pure plan of what she is do for us. for our community. >> reporter: former president trump is attending his first political rally all week tonight in bozeman, montana. late this afternoon, his plane diverted to billings, montana, because of a mechanical issue. the former president is comfortably ahead in deep red montana, and his campaign has not said when he plans to make his next visit to a battleground state, major. >> major: battlegrounds

lulac essentially saying that this is a serious violation of the civil rights of latino citizens. this is a direct attempt to suppress latino vote through intimidation and harassment lulac officials say that all of the allegations that paxton is investigating in this situation are simply not true attorney general paxton is using his position of authority to harass and intimidate latino non-profit organizations latino leaders, and lulac members. >> this is point blank voter intimidation. and lulac will fight for the right of very latino to exercise their right to vote and john one of the raise occurred at the home of an 87-year-old campaign activists to lydia martinez, who told us that she was simply trying to help people registered to vote. >> she says she was forced to stand interrogated for three hours by the officers that raided her home and forced to stand on her front porch while the officers were inside of her home. we should also point out that ken paxton has a checkered history when it comes do these electoral integrity investigations that he is spearheaded over the last s

the longtime lulac member helps senior citizens register to vote. >> i fear they will stop a lot of us from going out and doing our work and that's what they want. >> reporter: she said officers questioned her for hours, confiscated her phone and computer and made her wait outside as they searched her home. >> i said let me get dressed and she said no, go outside. >> reporter: what were you wearing? >> my nightgown and i had all these policeman around me. it was embarrassing. humiliating. i was so angry. it was horrible. >> the quintessential authoritarian nightmare, right? the knock at the door for collected political activity. for registering people to vote. so far ken paxton's office has brought no charges. those volunteers have written the department of justice, saying their civil rights were violated. meanwhile republicans and other states like nebraska are dragging their feet on laws approved by voters and legislators and in congress another trump ally, jim jordan, is using his power to subpoena the company that employs the daughter of the judge overseeing trump's new york fraud

and we believe lulac can put the tips on the scale and help harris win this election. >> and when you hear i was playing this for casey just a few moments ago when you hear donald trump out on the campaign trail questioning kamala harris is background. obviously, we've heard this before the birtherism that trump was engaged in when it came to barak obama. what's your response to that when you hear that, that the politics of scape gaining a scapegoating and fear mongering. the other that politics wasn't reasons that got involved because we just could not see somebody spits in the statue of liberty. and what america stands for, america stands for united. we don't pit each other against because of race color, or background and that's one of the things that the trump campaign really needs to stop doing because that's dividing america not unifying america. and kamala harris, i think now understands that is going to be a uniter and on the subject of immigration, what do you want to hear from the harris-walz ticket? what do you wanna hear from vice president harris? >> let's secure the borde

que podrÍa definir la elecciones en estados claves que por primera vez en 95 aÑos la organizaciÓn lulacllones de latinos >> pero esta madre de latinos insiste que la verdadera am amenazaviene de los demÓcratas >> estÁn manipulÁndonos con el racismo para distraernos de lo que ellos realmente estÁn t tratando hacer lo que realmente este partido quiere hacer es destruir los valores familiares y destruir la economÍa >>, el ex lcalde a del expre sobre willis grau el exalcalde de san francisco y exnovio de su rival kamala harris dijo que por poco se maten un helicÓptero con el y aÑadiÓ (hablan en inglÉs(p. willie brown desmintiÓ hoy que habrÍa bviajado con donald trum y llamÓ yamal a una buena amiga, donald trump si sobrevolÓ en helicÓptero la zona afectada por los incendios en 2018 con nrown pero un representante del polÍtico dijo que no hubo e emergencia y no hablaron de kamala harris, un portavoz de la campaÑa donald trump se negÓ a hablar y aÑadiÓ que el pr presidente tiene muchas historias asombrosas de su vida, mientras de la orden demÓcrata los republicanos se centran en el servicio mu

i want to start on that lulac story because i think it hasn't quite gotten enough .o me, i do think it's basically right out of the mid-20th century descriptions of authoritarian life, particularly in america compared to america, land of the free. political activities are protected and you can vote wherever you want and you can speak freely. there's not the knock at the door. the state comes to do something to you and retribution if you cross that. that's what it looks like ken paxton is doing in texas. >> i'm glad to be with you and i'm glad you're giving attention to the story because it's incredibly ominous when you hear that woman, 87 years old, describing what happened to her and that she was surrounded by police officers. it is unconscionable and it is antidemocratic but i have to say this. this is a play that's happened before. this is something that republicans did in alabama, as you know, against folks who were helping folks registered to vote and helping elderly voters. evelyn turner. jeff sessions at that time was the u.s. attorney and brought charges agai

maite: lulac condenÓ enÉrgicamente los allanamientos a oficinas de algunos de sus miembros por presuntolidia: por primera vez ante las cÁmaras toma lÍderes de la comunidad hispana ordenaron allanamientos ejecutados por la oficina del fiscal general de texas. exigiÓ una revisiÓn de los operativos calificÁndolos como una tÁctica para intimidar a los votantes hispanos. mÚltiples redadas se llevaron a cabo y serÍan parte de una investigaciÓn de un supuesto fraude electoral. contarÁn con una fuerte presencia demÓcrata. los agentes habrÍan confiscado 65 telÉfonos celulares, 41 computadoras entre otros dispositivos electrÓnicos. al menos 6 organizadores latinos estÁn en la lista, entre ellos cecilia castellanos, candidata demÓcrata que busca representar al distrito estatal nÚmero 80. medina denunciÓ que agentes habrÍan derribado la puerta de su hogar y habrÍan apuntado. por medio de un comunicado, la semana pasada dijo que investigan organizaciones que pretenden ayudar con el registro de votantes. el equipo de univisiÓn se ha comunicado con la oficina para obtener su reacciÓn. hasta el momento

the doj is responding by telling our team they have received this letter from lulac, but they're not commenting any further. so our team in texas also talked to an 87-year-old woman who said armed officers from republican attorney general ken paxton's office showed up at her house last week before for the sun was even up and searched it for hours here she is at one point they had me outside in front of all my neighbors while they search the living room and they never let me get dressed. >> and it was just very embarrassing intimidating harassment they searched everything in my house now, we're not hearing much from the attorney general's office at this point, but it does appear to be an effort from the attorney general, ken paxton to investigate what he's saying is alleged voter fraud. >> so we sent it had a notice last week with allegations that some groups might be illegally registering noncitizens to vote in that state. but in that release, the only examples that paxton's office gave is that they've noticed groups sitting outside the department of motor vehicles in various locatio

so what lulac officials are saying is that the republican attorney general ken paxton has engaged inoter intimidation by executing these search warrants at least the home of six different lulac members. last week that the attorney general says that this is part of an effort to secure elections, that it was part of a voter harvesting, fraud investigation. and that is something that lulac officials say is simply not the case that this has everything to do with voter in tim ideation. one of those people who had their home rated last week was at 7-year-old, lydia martinez. she says the whole episode left her embarrassed in that she is not guilty of any election fraud they came in and they two of them went into my bedroom and started searching everything. they searched all my house, my storeroom, my refrigerator, my kitchen cabinets, ever thank and i said, can i help you? what are you looking for and they said, anything to do with voter registration? they questioned me for three we hours and at one point they had me outside in front of all my neighbors while they search the living room an

latino non-profits and then on tuesday he started serving warrants to individual latino leaders and lulac members. that's a pattern all latino organizations, all atieno civic activist, always lulac members. >> you co-signed a letter to the justice department arguing these raids, as you noted, are meant to intimidate and suppress tina community. have you heard back from doj or had any conversations with them about this request yes. >> we've had an initial conversation with them and now we're we're working with two different lawyers, one on the criminal side and obviously one on the civil justice side as well so we'll be following up with them this week. and in addition to that, have been working with with lot of our allies was on the phone just earlier with marc morial from the urban league with reverend al sharpton as well with hector baba from me familiar volta so we are actively engaging all of our allies. and we're going to make a really big push because this is discriminatory practice it is prejudicial and he is working to dissuade the latino vote in the state of texas. >> did doj giv

presidenciales porque la liga de ciudadanos es hora de las la liga de ciudadanos lati latinoamericanos unidos, lulacndidatura de la vicepresidenta kamala harris a la casa blanca. >> de esta manera, este grupo rompe una practica de 95 anos de historia de no apoyar fo formalmente a ningun candidato politico. >> el grupo de defensa de derechos civiles se formo en 1929 para proteger los ciudadanos de ascendencia m mexicana y desde entonces habia permanecido neutral, planean planean participar manana en un mitin junto a harris en las vegas y ya hay fecha para el primer cara a cara entre donald trump y kamala y kamala harris. >> el debate sera el 10 de septie hombre y sera moderado por la cadena abc. >> en una rueda de prensa, el exmandatario cuestiono la inteligencia de harris y la reto a otros dos debates, mientras que la campana de hearst publico un anuncio en espanol, conscientes del valor del voto latino. >> y en otras noticias, el rapero travis scott vuelve a ser titular. >> fue arrestado en un hotel de paris. >> autoridades francesas dijeron que la policia acudio al lugar tras el reporte de un alte

but following the highly contested results of july 20 eights printing into elections in venezuela. lulac has changed his tune. i don't know that we do not recognize whether it was good for you. he knows that he owes the explanation to his country and to the world will come on into a box. shortly after he spoke, nina's farm policy adviser, terrified before brazil's foreign affairs committee was my beautiful. i know they say that i'm a friend of my duties, i'm you. but actually, i'm more of a friend of the truth and we have to work for the truth. i repeat, presumable is not separate and as a presidency that is not based on the results of the focus on the unit is now suggesting a new way out of a crisis that has led to mass arrests opponents and at least 2 dozen depths in protest. as well as international condemnation of elections, the president my little insist, see one result proposes a new election that would be overseen by impartial, international monitors. in option us, president joe biden was quick to support but which just as quickly then as well as opposition leader rejected the cas

lulac exigiÓ al departamento de justicia y fbi una revisiÓn de estos operativos calificÁndolos como unaelecciones del 2022. dichos condados cuentan con una fuerte presencia demÓcrata. los agentes habÍan confiscado 65 telÉfonos celulares, 41 computadoras entre otros dispositivos electrÓnicos. seis organizadores latinos estÁn en la lista de quienes reciben visitas de oficiales, entre ellos cecilia castellano, candidata demÓcrata que busca representar al distrito 80. medina denunciÓ que agentes incluyendo los texas so range as habÍan derribado la puerta de su hogar y le habrÍan apuntado con armas largas. panel investiga organizaciones que pretenden ayudar con el registro de votantes, ya que estarÍan registrando ilegalmente a quienes no son ciudadanos para votar en las elecciones. el equipo de univisiÓn se ha comunicado con la oficina del fiscal, pero no hemos recibido respuesta. >>hasta el momento no se ha encontrado evidencia de fraude electoral masivo, pero organizaciones temen que esto pueda disuadir a votantes hispanos de vÍstete a las urnas el prÓximo mes de noviembre. elian: un ciuda

now, lulac is demanding that the department of justice open an investigation into the series of raidses. and democratic state senator roland gutierrez says he is also requesting a state senate investigation as well. and senator gutierrez joins me now. senator, this story was harrowing, reading it in "the new york times." the fact that they are requesting dna swabs and raiding elderly volunteers' homes is shocking. what is the status of your request for a state investigation? >> well, we filed that yesterday, joy, and still nothing from the lieutenant governor, no response whatsoever. as you know, the state of texas is controlled by a republican house and senate, and all the leaders at the top are republicans. and so i expect they'll pay short thrift to my letter, my demands. but we'll keep advocating for people that have been hurt. i mean, lydia martinez here is an 87-year-old great grandmother. they went through her refrigerator, through all of her drawers, everything you could imagine. she was in her bathrobe. she asked to change. they wouldn't allow her to change. they made her wai

lulac doesn't actually endorse candidates.k when i was working in the business, that would have been a great thing for these previous candidates to have. what is the relevance of that indorement, particularly as the campaign heads to arizona and of that immigration ad? >> well, to start off, i think it touches on something that nancy pelosi said earlier. that these are really -- donald trump has this way of putting this pall over america, this darkness. when you look at the endorsement, talking about immigrant communities and migrant communities and the way that he is, the murderers, the rapists that he's always talked about them as, it goes to the importance and the urgency of this moment to try to rewrite and revoers that entire narrative and get really smart policy making on the table. that's why that ad is so important and critical. it shows that she would be both tough but also compassionate. and also bringing in the human trafficking and fentanyl is incredibly important. and i would also add that i believe that latino vo

>> the doj has certainly been invited to get involved by lulac and the doj could get involved and doesolved in what are disputes about the voting rights act. they issue what are called statements of interest all the time in existing litigation and then occasionally they bring litigation of their own. what i'm not familiar with, though, katy, is situations in which the doj brings its own suit under the voting rights act to stop a local state official from conducting his or her own law enforcement investigation in the game of voting integrity. you're seeing a collision here between ken paxton on one hand saying he's trying to root out voter fraud and the department of justice saying hey, what you're trying to do in the name of voter integrity is intimidating people from the exercise of the franchise and from encouraging other people to participate in their right to vote as well. >> so he argues he's -- >> go ahead. >> he argues he's searching out evidence of voter fraud and believes that lulac could be behind that. part of the search warrant i found crazy, we talked about this, was that

has already earned the endorsement of the league of united latin american citizens, also known as lulac the league is set to join harris and walz during the rally later today, joining me now is political reporter for the las vegas review journal. jessica hill. hello, jessica. good morning to you let's start with just the overall big picture on the state of the race there in nevada, a very important swing states, six electoral votes have you seen renewed interest or boosted enthusiasm? there since biden withdrew and harris got to the top of the ticket yes thanks so much for having me. we definitely have seen a lot more enthusiasm from democratic voters just talking with people who are obviously very willing to vote for president biden in the fall but once he dropped out and harris took over, we've been seeing just so much renewed enthusiasm will actually excited to get to the polls. and we're seeing that a lot with younger voters. and also with latino voters as well. >> you know, when you look at the statistics, the voter registration statistics in nevada as of july 2020 for there are 68

a eso se suma el anuncio que hoy hace la conocida organizaciÓn hispana lulac, con casi 100 aÑos de trayectorias y al gobernador de minnesota tim walz. tenemos que hablar sobre lo que ha pasado en esa conferencia de prensa que tuvo trump en su casa en mar—a—lago, que hay mucha controversia al respecto, sobre todo porque hablÓ de una supuesta transferencia de poder pacÍfica, sÓlo si las elecciones son legÍtimas. trump diciendo que en el aÑo 2020 el escenario estuvo lleno de paz, pero hay que recordar que son estÁ muy alejado de la realidad, considerando que se dio una insurrecciÓn al capitolio, y trump no asistiÓ a la ceremonia de inauguraciÓn del presidente joe biden. aileen: gracias. a menos de 90 dÍas para las elecciones. por lo pronto, antes tendremos este debate que todos estamos esperando. saliÓ a la luz el dramÁtico vÍdeo en el que un agente de policÍa sube al tejado de la atentÓ contra el expresidente, donald trump el 13 de julio en pensilvania. ve al tirador sÓlo 39 borjatragedia aÉrea en brasil, 62 personas han muerto en un aviÓn que cayÓ una zona residencial cuando ha aterrizado en un

the call from lulac, prominent latino civil rights organization we're federal investigation into the texas attorney general, ken paxton. it comes after several homes of democrats were raided in connection to what they were describing as a voter integrity investigation. what was your response to that? >> i was really shocked and disgusted that they would send in a s.w.a.t. team basically to the home of an 87-year-old woman who has worked in earnest all of her adult life in trying to get people to vote, register people to vote. that they would be pointing guns at her and others on a matter of voting. and it came around the same time within the last few days when greg abbott announced that he had removed or suspended one 1.1 million texans from the voter rolls. so how is it that this woman is trying to help some people registered to vote? and they go in and send a swat team into her home and pointing guns at her and yet the governor of texas dumps 1.1 million texans from the voter registration roles, and he calls that election integrity. i mean, the irony is just incredible, but i would

let's talk about this letter to the doj lulac says we believe paxton's conduct constitutes a direct attempt to suppress the latino vote through intimidation and harassment in violation of the voting rights act and other federal civil rights law what would you like to see happen? domingo? >> we would like to department of justice to investigate an attorney general here in texas who has been indicted, is on probation, who has been impeached who is a criminal himself, going after. >> see citizens, they went and rated lidia martinez an 87-years-old, nine good syntactical uniform margins are house at 6:00 a.m. made her stand outside in her nightgown in front of her neighbors and her friends, ameliorating or lady has never had a ticket in her name. >> and yet because she's helping seniors vote, she was targeted as well as other individuals. that we believe this is a gross violation of civil rights. and it clear attempt at voter intimidation, voter suppression and basically official oppression by a elected official here in texas. >> well, and i think you're referencing the home of the two elderly

it is the first time lulac has ever endorsed a presidential candidate in its nearly 100 year history, and it comes at a time when the harris campaign is focused on gaining more support from latino voters. >> republican donald trump continued his attacks on the vice president as he returned to the campaign trail. god bless the. usa former president was in bozeman, montana, last night to support republican tim sheehy in a crucial us senate race. but trump's speech focused almost entirely on the race for the white house and his battle to defeat harris in what is now a very tight race. we're going to evict crazy kamala. >> do you know, have you heard of kamala? radical left, radical left. well, she has a couple of things that a lot of people from montana would like. like she wants to take away your guns. you like that, right? >> trump had a difficult time making it last night to the rally in bozeman. his plane was forced to divert its landing 150 miles away to an airport in billings, montana, due to a mechanical issue. ktvu. of course, your election headquarters leading up to the big elec

candidate with us now is domingo garcia, the chair of the political action committee for lulac. thank you so much for being with us, mr. garcia. so why now because it's historic election for the first time we're seeing a candidate, former president trump, and a party that's talking about a really bizarre weirdo ideas like we're going to deport 14 million people were going to send the army door to door looking and asking people to show us your papers, and talking about abolishing the department of education deepening education, they things are very important to our community and we believed it was time that we stepped up and with hundreds of thousands of members, especially in those battleground states you just mentioned arizona, nevada, wisconsin. >> we think we can make a difference prince and elect a president like president harris, vice president harris, who can really unite the country instead of divide us. >> had you made the decision to endorse president biden when he was still in the race? >> we did not we probably would not have done that endorsement. but when you see so

. >> that's french organization lulac says, officers broke down a door. they say an 80-year-old medicine was taken. they say an 87-year-old home was rated at 6:00 in the morning. she's quoted the new york times is saying they searched everywhere. my underwear my night nightgown, everything. they went through everything and a democrat running for state house representative says her home was also raided cecilia casiano says, quote, this is all political. here is the state director of lulac speaking out today we're asking the department of justice to step in because justice and equality, that pathway to justice and equality in our community, is that the ballot box? >> so they think that they're going to stop our community from coming out. they've got another thing coming now. >> no charges have been filed, but the republican ag had previously said that his office clicking searches after a local prosecutor referred, quote allegations of election fraud and vote harvesting, unquote the 2022 election to his office and we've reached out to paxton's office for com

. >> reporter: trump's rhetoric on the issue helped prompt lulac, the nations oldest latino support organization, to back harris the first time they have backed a president so candidate. she still got some ground to make up to match president biden's performance with hispanic voters back in 2020. >> i haven't heard a plan of what a she is do for us. >> eporter: former president trump is attending his first political rally all week tonight in bozeman, montana. late this afternoon from his plane diverted to billings, montana, because of a mechanical issue. the former president is comfortably ahead in deep red montana, and his team has not said when he plans to make his next visit to a battleground state. major? >> major: battlegrounds beckon. nancy cordes come think you so much. new developments on several fronts tonight and the russian invasion of ukraine. the biden administration announced the new $125 million aid package to provide much-needed stinger missiles and artillery ammunition. cbs's charlie d'agata reports the aid comes as ukrainian troops are now fighting several miles inside russia.

rachel: this is lulac; correct?s poll, or these numbers, this is the number of hispanics who will be voting in the coming election so 36.2 million eligible hispanic voters for 2024. it's the highest amount ever. latinos expected to -- or projected to make up about 14.7% of eligible voters nationally, 22% of eligible nevada voters are latino and that's a huge block. obviously the economy is a top issue. interestingly and also ironically, the border and illegal immigration is a big topic. but there's social issues that hispanics care about and very deep contrasts as well contraindication for cerumen; c? >> yeah, look, i'm out here and running for office for state assembly and i'm out here knocking doors and couple days ago, i was at a hispanic voter's door and he was from cuba and he's really concerned about the rhetoric he's hearing and he was like i left this stuff. he wanted people to know they never come through on these types of policies and promises and the presidents will be the one that will work. rafael thank

that's about 15% of the electorate domingo garcia on the program from lulac, and i was asking him ishe harris campaign doing enough outreach? are there enough latinos speakers at this convention? are you satisfied with the rollout to noes are playing in the harris walls ticket? i know they've they only gotten started here, but what your sense? >> i mean, listen from top to bottom campaign managers, a latina. whose family who grew up in california, but her family is from texas and you see that kamala harris is lead with latinos has expanded to about 20 points according to the polls and i think most of all you have a latino community that cares about the bread and butter issues of being able to educate their kids well, be able to afford health care. the price of groceries and gas, and kamala harris is the one with a plan. i think people realize that for all of his bluster and all of his talk, donald trump really has no plan what he has is 25 random tweets about wild things every other day now. and so the latino community immunity like the other americans they want to go with the person

every four years issues an endorsement, this is the first endorsement, president endorsement and lulac'she government positions as this is a make or break moment for america for democracy and for the latino community that the stakes are simply as they say, too high, and so i think you are right that there is an opportunity to unify people under this umbrella and i think that is especially important given the division that we have seen from donald trump, and he has been effective, it has taken hold. you see it bear out in this list of endorsements, and i also want to make sure, we have an nbc news exclusive, the brother of george floyd endorsing the harris-walls ticket specifically speaking to the strength of walz's character , you know, the organizations are important, those individuals are important too, michael. >> they are, and i think a lot of folks on my side of the aisle will sleep on that endorsement by george floyd's brother but it does speak to the heart of how we see ourselves and the leaders who can help us deal with moments of crises and folks remember how the trump administr

>> well, lulac has asked the justice department to come into play, and myself and others are asking fortexas. i don't think that is go very far in this republican-controlled senate. it is not that -- we have our hands tied and we'll keep fighting and trying to tell the tooth and that is basically all we can do. >> and senator, you are speak being this narrative being created by the governor and others like paxton, governor greg abbott announced yesterday that the state has removed over a million ineligible voters from the voting rolls since 2021. what is that all about. >> so they went back and created a piece of legislation to purge voter rolls from people that had registered to vote and simply had not voted. so if you've registered to vote in the past, and you didn't vote in the last couple of elections for whatever reason, let's just say you decided to stay home, you now cannot vote in the future and you need to reregister. this is just another way they have made it much hard tore vote in texas. texas is truly the last stand for the right-wing republicans and they've allowed greg abb

lulac's president called the raid, quote, pointblank voter intimidation.w group has been with the harris-walz campaign. how likely is that georgia suit to succeed? >> i think they're going to win that case in georgia because the republicans, you know, are trying to pull a fast one here on people. i'm glad you pointed out what's going on in colorado because it's not just georgia. and it's not just by the way colorado tissues's also, we saw in 2022 they tried this in arizona, in my -- my law firm sued and won. we saw them try this in pennsylvania, and my law firm sued, and we won. the effort by republicans to subvert election results by trying to turn the scoreboard operators into players on the field is not going to -- not going to succeed, this lawsuit that the dnc brought, kudos to the layers. this is the tip of the icingberg that the republicans are going to go to to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat. >> who's organizing and finish funding -- and funding this, mark? >> great question. there is a constellation of well-funded right-wing o

does it surprise you that lulac has decided to break with tradition, and how might that swing the votes>> i think a lot of groups are seeing there's a lot on the line in this election, especially when it comes to immigration, but i think the harris campaign is approaching it the right away, talking about the american dream. the latinos, based on our extensive research on our population, they like it. where you start to lose them, hey, they're all criminals, but let's say it hits a political wall. they are xenophobic. the majority want to come over and live the american dream. i think they are threading the needle, keep it to border security, and try to stay away from some of the more hard line rhetoric, at least if you're trying to court the hispanic latino population in the southwest. >> one of the things we have been seeing all week from kamala harris is she's bringing along tim walz. that's the whole plan for the week and some have questioned whether tim walz can play a role in attracting latino votes, 60-year-old white enjoy, governor of a state with a comparatively small latino pop

they're trying to cobble together the coalition of voters, not just in arizona, and around the country, lulac has never done get out the vote work, they are now, but why now, and what do they bring to the table in terms of actually turning out voters to the ballot box? >> reporter: it's an endorsement of the harris/walz ticket said it had concerns about donald trump disrespecting and demonizing latinos in this country. that's part of the reason it has chosen to endorse the harris/walz ticket. the reality is there's a significant latino population here in arizona, for example, about almost a third, roughly a third of the population is latino. 890,000 latinos are registered to vote in the state o ounce, and they are going to register younger voters, that's what they bring to the table, and they want to put their energy and money and time behind the harris walz ticket because they believe that's the ticket that will do more to benefit latinos, particularly here in arizona and in nevada where we expect to hear that organization speak tomorrow. >> and certainly that ground game is always so essent

and for the first time in its nearly 100 year history, lulac is endorsing a presidential candidate. it came the same day she released this ad, vowing to be tough on border issues as president, she will hire thousands more border agents and crack down on fentanyl and human trafficking fixing the border is tough. >> so it was common well, i harris the campaign released an ad aimed at latino voters with an economic and reproductive rights message highlighting her background as the child of immigrants now, voters concerned about the war in gaza, or in other key demographic, the harris-walz campaign back in their quarter. >> and just last night, harris was again interrupted by protests this, was her rally in arizona hold on a second. >> hold on. hold on. hold on. everybody. hold on. >> hold on hold on not this was a first happened on wednesday at a detroit rally the question now is whether these protests will carry over to the democratic convention next monday, a leaders of the uncommitted movement say that they will keep falling for changes in policy towards israel at the convention. an

. >> and the endorsement which they've never done before by lulac oldest latino civil rights organization and the country are they actually broke with their own tradition and are endorsing of the harris-walz ticket that is that's key it starts to really put a lot of pressure on their republican adversaries. the latest times sienna college poll shows that the blue wall is pretty much intact and the midwest where harris seems to be for odd about four points ahead in michigan and pennsylvania, and wisconsin. and if she starts to ics ban them, the democratic map to include georgia and to include nevada and to include arizona. it's going to be very, very hard to stop them. that's where i think you see the frustration and the name calling on the republican side, they don't know what to do because they've got multiple paths to victory on the democratic side and the republicans have got to pull sort of an inside straight. they've got to have everything their way which is what they were hoping to do. if they were facing joe biden i don't know what to do. >> they've got to figure that out quickly.

up a historic endorsement from the country's oldest and largest latino civil rights organization, lulac, atlanta now, this is the first time the group has backed a presidential candidate, breaking with the norman adding to her campaign's momentum, latino voters have been seen as a key swing group. recent pew poll shows the democrat demographic is mostly split on who they would vote for. 36% say they would vote for each of the candidates if the election were held today. but that polling was done before president joe biden dropped out of the race. a poll found about a third of registered latino voters say they would vote for a third party with just at five days left until election day. harris has launched a new campaign ad trying to win their support when you're raised by an immigrant mother, you learn what's possible with determination and determination is how kamala harris went from one working in mcdonald's to prosecutor state attorney general, us senator, and our vice president in only one generation and joining me now is elie valentine, political analyst and professor at virginia uni

, we just learned that the political arm of the league of united latin american citizens, known as lulac the harris-walz ticket. >> it's the group's first presidential endorsement. if we have this right and it's 95 year history the latino vote has not gotten a whole lot of press in recent weeks, but it's one of the keys to the election. how big is this for the harris campaign, and how is she hoping to maintain this momentum? that she's enduring right now because it's it's certainly swung in her direction when it comes to the latino vote that this is an area of voters that has been in hotly contested by both republicans and democrats, where trump was making a lot of inroads against biden and harris, hoping to win arizona and nevada herself as joe biden did in 2020, latino votes key there, as it is another place, by the way, in georgia to a lot of latino voters. but for the harris campaign is trying to figure out how to bring her message across to them. let's take a look at an ad from the campaign this week is one of their first ads targeted at latino voters when you're raised by an immigr

. >> one of the lulac members joining us now is texas state senator roland gutierrez no charges have so far been filed since the raids and three counties last week the attorney general's office says that they were all tied to alligator patients of voter fraud. first of all, do you think the rates are legitimate know i don't see i mean, the attorney general is basing his claims on an affidavit from an election two years ago there is no basis to what he's alleging. >> i want to be very clear who we are talking about this the attorney general, ken paxton, who was indicted for securities fraud, was on some form of felony, deferred disposition where he has to pay $271,000 in restitution to the people that he defrauded. so essentially, we need to consider the source here. this is an 87-year-old great grandmother. the other two women were also in their 80s they were mistreated. one of the one of the people who was targeted had people draw guns on him. the things that the texas rangers didn't do, in uvalde they did to these people, they treated him as if they were el chapo or something we ha