“Harris is eyeing Latino voters with City Hall, polls show.”

Vice President Kamala Harris made perhaps her biggest push for the Latino vote at a town hall in Las Vegas on Thursday, her first such event since becoming the Democratic presidential nominee.

The event, hosted by Univision, focused on issues facing undecided Latino voters and gave Harris the opportunity to make her case to the key voting bloc less than a month before Election Day. Her Republican opponent, former President Donald Trump, will attend a Univision town hall on October 16.

Democratic support among Latino voters has declined in recent years, and polls have shown Harris struggling to garner the same support that President Joe Biden received in 2020. An analysis of Newsweek found that Harris was at 56 percent among Latinos in polls as of Oct. 5, a decline of three percentage points from the support Biden had four years ago.

Trump is polling at 38 points, the same support he received from Latino voters in 2020.

Harris told the crowd Thursday that the 2024 election is “an extraordinary time.” This is not a debate about trickle-down economic theory. It’s literally about, do we support a democracy and the Constitution of the United States?

Latino voters have a chance to play a decisive role in swing states in the Southwest. In both Arizona and Nevada, the voting bloc makes up over 20 percent of the state’s electorate. Biden won both states against Trump in 2020.

A recent survey by The New York Times/Siena College showed that Latinos in Arizona were nearly split between the two main candidates — while 49 percent said they would support Harris in the race, 41 percent said they would support Trump. Survey averages from the Just show Trump leading Harris by an average of 2 points in the Grand Canyon State (49 percent to 47 percent).

Harris has a slight lead overall in Nevada (49 percent to 48 percent). Just Persecution. A recent survey by USA today and Suffolk University found that Harris leads Trump 56 percent to 40 percent among Latino voters in Nevada, even though the vice president is losing support among Latino men. While 40 percent of Latino men ages 18 to 34 said they support Harris in November, 53 percent said they support Trump. The results were similar for Latino men ages 35 to 49 (53 percent Trump, 39 percent Harris).

A recent survey by UnidosUS, the country’s largest Latino civil rights group, shows that the top four issues facing Latino Americans are “pocketbook issues,” including the cost of living, wages, housing and health care. Immigration and crime were the fifth most important issues in the survey, which included responses from 3,000 Latino voters.

The same poll found that most respondents (45 percent) believe Democrats can tackle their biggest problems in 2024 better than Republicans. But nearly a third of the sample (28 percent) said neither party was a “champion” of their causes.

Harris was pressed Thursday over her immigration policy, an issue that has been a favorite for Trump throughout the 2024 election cycle. The Just reported that Harris called the American immigration system “broken” and called for an “orderly and humane path to earned citizenship for hard-working people.”

However, at the same town hall, Harris also expressed support for passing the bipartisan border bill, which was rejected by Senate Republicans this year. This bill would increase the number of border agents and encourage other methods to curb migration across the U.S. southern border. She also touted her experience prosecuting “transnational criminal organizations” as California’s attorney general.

Asked about her plans to address cost-of-living concerns, Harris reiterated her policy proposals to combat corporate price gouging, expand the child tax credit and open new opportunities for first-time homebuyers.

“When you lift just a little weight, people thrive and we all benefit,” the vice president said. “And that’s how I think about the economy.”

Newsweek reached out to the Harris and Trump campaigns for comment on Thursday evening.