Security and migration, the priorities of voters in New York

Although recent polls such as that of the Siena Research Institute favor Kamala Harris in the November 5 presidential election in New York, the state is critical for Republicans to maintain control of the House of Representatives.

“I would say the economic issue, and it is what the campaign is noticing, is the issue that is most convincing these Hispanic voters, who are also generally independent voters, to lean more towards our party because in the last four years, Kamala Harris and Joe Biden have had many opportunities to convince these people and improve their quality of life, but it has been the total opposite,” said Vianca Rodríguez, spokesperson for the Republican National Committee.

New York has voted Democratic in the 2016 and 2020 presidential elections, when Trump was on the ballot. But now, new voters say they are worried about insecurity and irregular migration during Democratic governments.

“The truth is, New York, before it was safer than it was five years ago, now with all that wave of immigrants that have arrived here it has been chaos, very unsafe,” said Enrique, Voter.

According to the same Siena poll, Kamala Harris is still below the 23 percent in favor among American voters who favored Joe Biden in the 2020 election.

“Many undecided people could vote Republican right now, there are many people who are worried about the Democratic agenda, my mother was a Democrat and now she is no longer a Democrat,” commented Iberdo Pérez, Voter.

Queens native Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has focused on a campaign from suburban Long Island that tells voters they have nothing left to lose. But the president of the Young Democrats in Brooklyn and Democratic delegate Carlos Calzadilla has taken it upon himself to refute their proposals.

“Donald Trump is not loved here, here in New York we know him very well when he created real estate here and all his inhumane tactics. What the Republican Party proposes is not freedom, taking away the freedom of women and what they do with their body that is not freedom,” said Carlos Calzadilla Palacios, Democratic Delegate.

New York has voted Democratic in the last nine presidential elections, six of them by a 20% margin. That includes 2020, when Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump. Ángela González, Voice of America, New York.