By Nelson A. King
NEW YORK, Nov 4, CMC – As Americans vote in the presidential elections on Tuesday, the overwhelmingly number of Caribbean community and political activists and legislators in New York are urging Caribbean nationals to cast ballots for Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of retired Jamaican economist, Dr. Donald Harris, saying she is the better candidate to be the next president of the United States.
In what polls and pundits indicate in a dead-locked race, Harris, the Democratc Party nominee, is seeking to become the first woman of colour and Caribbean- and Asian-American to be the president of the United States in the race against her Republican challenger, in former president Donald J. Trump.
“This election day marks a turning point for our nation, where Americans will make their choice about who this country stands for, and what it stands against,” Congresswoman Yvette D. Clarke, the daughter of Jamaican immigrants, told the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC).
“It will be our moment to choose between one man’s criminality and our common decency, and between turning the page or turning back to the past. This election is centered in choice,” added the representative for the predominantly Caribbean 9th Congressional District in Brooklyn, New York.
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