The League of United Latin American Citizens advocacy group broke with its longstanding tradition of not issuing presidential endorsements on Friday to back the Democratic 2024 ticket of Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

As the oldest and largest Latino civil rights group in the country, LULAC has avoided coming out in favor of one presidential candidate or another over the course of its 95-year history. …citing what he called the “politics of hate-mongering and scapegoating Latinos and immigrants,” LULAC Adelante PAC Chairman Domingo Garcia ended that tradition on Friday by endorsing Harris and Walz over the GOP ticket of former President Donald Trump and Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio.

“Today, we are proud to endorse Kamala Harris and Tim Walz because of the real issues facing Latino communities and all Americans across the nation; we can trust them to do what is right for our community and the country,” he wrote in a social media post.

The move comes two days after LULAC issued a report detailing what it calls the “disproportionately negatively impacts” on Latino civil rights posed by the policies detailed in the Heritage Foundation’s 2025 Mandate for Leadership, otherwise known as Project 2025, the conservative think tank’s roadmap for the next Republican presidency,

Source: Oldest U.S. Latino advocacy group breaks tradition to endorse Harris, Walz – UPI.com