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Matt Barreto, a political scientist and co-founder of the public opinion research firm Latino Decisions who worked with Biden campaign, argues that it’s important to remember that Trump’s 2016 campaign was a low point in the GOP’s efforts to appeal to Latino voters. (Also: MSN News.)
Read More | November 13, 2020
In Gwinnett County, a suburban county of Atlanta, Biden got 75 percent of the vote in precincts with high concentrations of Latinos, according to an analysis by the University of California, Los Angeles Latino Policy and Politics Institute. (Also: NBC News and DNYUZ.)
“This was a historic turnout, everyone turned out. Like our data at UCLA made clear, Latinos provided that razor-thin edge to the coalition of non-white voters in Milwaukee, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia,” says Sonja Diaz.
Sonja Diaz joins KTLA as a political analyst to discuss the second Presidential Debate. “What is missing here is a lack of understanding of all the American lives lost, the jobs that have been lost, the financial hardships that continue, the people who have lost their health insurance… I don’t think that Trump has accurately announced…
Read More | October 30, 2020
David Hayes-Bautista, a UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute expert says, “Facts tell different stories, depending on who is picking them, and placing them in a narrative line. People said ‘well Latinos are going to have a high rate because Latinos tend to suffer from obesity they eat all these tortillas and chicharrones and do everything…
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