The second televised debate between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman will take place Saturday in Fresno.

For Meg Whitman, the timing couldn’t be worse. 

The debate is aimed at Latino audiences, and is being aired on Univision with Spanish and English subtitles. Brown already had the edge with Latino voters coming into this week, but now that the Whitman maid scandal has erupted, Whitman’s going to have to work extremely hard simply to maintain the portion of Latino votes she does have. 

The maid scandal is continuing to develop, and yesterday attorney Gloria Allred held a press conference to display evidence she says proves Whitman and her husband knew their maid, Nicandra Diaz Santillan, was an undocumented immigrant. Allred produced a government letter saying that Diaz Santillan’s social security number was incorrect. At the bottom of the letter was a note Allred says was written by Whitman’s husband, proving the two did know something was wrong.

Previously, Whitman had denied that she or her husband knew anything about the letter. Now, her husband, Griff Harsh, has admitted that he might have been the one who wrote the note at the bottom of the letter. 

Whitman has been trying to turn the scandal around, attempting to implicate the Brown campaign and claiming that Brown is paying Allred. In fact, she offered to take a polygraph to prove she didn’t know Diaz Santillan was undocumented, but only on the condition that Brown take a polygraph to prove he has not played a part in orchestrating this “stunt.”

Still, it seems that Whitman’s image is suffering the most, and she can’t really afford to lose more Latino voters. 

According to a recent Field Poll, 43 percent of Latino voters support Brown, and only 40 percent favor Whitman. 

A survey by the Public Policy Institute of California also found Whitman trailing Brown with Latino voters by a margin of 32 to 25.

Whitman says she’s willing to take a lie-detector test: Los Angeles Times

Did the Brown campaign know about Diaz Santillan two weeks ago? Capitol Alert 

This is not the first time Gloria Allred has been in the spotlight: Sacramento Bee 

“Meg Whitman is finding that in politics, unlike the corporate boardroom, you cannot have your cake and eat it too. Courting the Latino vote while revealing that she fired a long-time housekeeper on the eve of her campaign because of her immigration status is a problem … Whitman must now explain to California conservatives why she continued to break for law for six years, and explain to Latino voters why she callously fired a loyal employee and believes that someone like "Nicky" doesn't deserve a path to citizenship. It's all about character, and Whitman is flunking the mid-terms.” –Michael Yaki, member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Read more at Politico’s Arena. 

The scandal doesn’t matter as much as how the Whitman campaign responds: Newsweek 

The attack on Whitman is not about immigration, it’s about feminism: The Hill

Reach news editor Alexandra Tilsley here. Follow her on Twitter @atilsley.

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