The candidate came to Philadelphia this week to target and speak to Millennials. She overlooked the fastest growing segment in that group: “The Billennials”, bilingual millennials, mostly of Latino descent.

One thing we miss from Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders was his natural way to engage, at his advanced age, the youngest of the voters, the so called “Millennials.”

Rallying them on their aspirations to radically change the face of the country, or with his liberal ideals for social justice, and his denunciations of unpunished crimes in Wall Street, he brought out the many thousands among the young to his public events— not the just 250 carefully chosen and orderly displayed students in this week’s Temple University campus, heavily publicized and carefully staged as “Hillary Clinton Rally with Millennials”.

Rally not for the masses, as Sanders did— but for the TV cameras, as Donald Trump does all the time.

Not even when this clear opportunity to include some young Latinos in the show, with many walking around Temple’s Campus (one of the most diverse in America) not a single Latino face was chosen to demonstrate how much the Democratic candidate cares about this community of new voters.

The only reference connected to this community she has made recently was perhaps her mention in passing, not in this rally, but a few days ago, that she will work for “a path to citizenship.”

How about the 27 million U.S. Citizens of Latino descent the New York Times declared on Sunday are qualified to vote, with the power to tip the balance of power in this country, were the candidates sincerely interested in attracting them?

Is immigration the top concern for the U.S. Citizens of Latino descent, registered and ready to vote?

How about entrepreneurship?

Or educational advancement for new generations?

Or perhaps, full political participation and inclusion of Latinos in Democratic Party politics?

The priorities of the  27 million the NYT mentioned perhaps is not immigration, Madame Secretary.

This was a concern overcome decades ago by them, among millions of naturalized citizens— and even more so, among those millennials born U.S. Citizens in this country, or in Puerto Rico, and living now in the U.S.

Altogether, they are millions that can change the election result come November 8th, were you, as a candidate, sincerely interested in attracting them by the simple act of explicitly acknowledging their existence.

We recently blamed your staff for this fatal political shortsightedness in this final stretch of the race.

Harry Truman, your fellow Democrat, however, comes to mind at this crucial hour to remind us that “the bug stops” with the leader. 

You, the candidate, Madame Secretary.