Arizona elected officials and labor leaders gathered in Phoenix on Thursday to call on working class voters to support Vice President Harris in the upcoming presidential election.
Legendary labor activist Dolores Huerta appeared at a west Phoenix union hall alongside Tucson Mayor Regina Romero, Phoenix Councilwoman Betty Guardado and Harris campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, the granddaughter of labor organizer Cesar Chavez.
The Harris campaign’s message to the hundreds of Arizonans who attended the event was that the vice president, not Trump, will fight for working class families.
“I’ve seen who she’s fighting for when she’s in the halls of power… she fights for families like ours,” Chavez Rodriguez said.
Romero, a Harris campaign surrogate, told the attendees at a crowded union hall in west Phoenix that Harris will fight for working class families.
“And the road to the White House runs through Arizona,” Romero said. “And the organizing that happens in Arizona happens because of labor and of unions and nonprofit organizations that are canvassing every single night.”
Romero says her message to voters is that Harris supports public education, Medicare, Social Security, and reproductive rights.
Huerta spent much of her speech calling out former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presidential nominee.
She said a second Trump presidency would be bad for Latinos in Arizona, citing his plans to launch a mass deportation program and derogatory comments Trump made about Mexicans when he launched his last presidential campaign in 2015.
“He attacked the Latino community on day one. First thing out of his mouth, he attacked the Latino community,” Huerta said.
“Well, hey, Arizona, thank you for paying him back,” she said, referencing President Biden’s win over Trump in Arizona in 2020.
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