NORTH LAS VEGAS, Nev. — On the eve of the election, amid a bitter chill, Marisela Olvera, a member of the Culinary Workers Union, rapped on doors in North Las Vegas to make her pitch.
The 12-year employee of Trump International Hotel Las Vegas was trying to get out the vote — not for her employer, former President Trump, but for his rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
“Kamala Harris has risen from the bottom and has achieved everything she has achieved, being a prosecutor, being vice president, and now perhaps the future president,” said Olvera, 52. “I don’t want to miss out on being part of this history. And I want my children to see that it doesn’t matter if you are humble, it doesn’t matter where you come from, the important thing is that you were born in a privileged country, like the United States, where by working and fighting you can achieve whatever you want.”