#15: Latino Conservatives
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2016
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Latino support for Republicans Presidential candidates has been steadily falling, slipping from 40% support in 2004 to 27% in 2012. But could conservative Latinos stop this decline and help Donald Trump win? Maria Hinojosa leads a discussion with Daniel Garza, Executive Director of the Libre Initiative, Angela Maria Kelley, Executive Director of the Center for American Progress Action Fund, and Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor with the Futuro Media Group.
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| 0:00.0 | He is in a 20 foot hole with a 10 foot rope and he's just not going to be able to get out of it. |
| 0:06.0 | You can't call somebody ugly and expect that they'll go to the prom with you. |
| 0:09.0 | Welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:12.0 | This is a podcast about politics and the race to the White House in 2016. |
| 0:16.0 | We are the show that examines this week's political coverage through a diverse lens with different perspectives that we own. |
| 0:23.0 | I am your host, Mariano Jose. |
| 0:25.0 | It's great to be here with you. |
| 0:26.0 | So on our last episode, |
| 0:28.0 | we decided to focus on Asian Americans as a voting blog |
| 0:31.0 | because, you know, it doesn't get a whole lot of |
| 0:33.6 | attention and that's what we like to talk about so this week we turn our |
| 0:37.2 | attention to another voting block that you don't hear a whole lot about |
| 0:41.0 | conservative Latino and |
| 0:43.2 | Latina voters and we're excited to welcome |
| 0:45.8 | two leaders of national political organizations |
| 0:48.4 | to join our conversation. |
| 0:50.0 | From Washington, D'Aniel Garza, |
| 0:52.2 | who is the executive director of the Libre Initiative. |
| 0:55.0 | That's a politically conservative Latino outreach organization. |
| 0:57.8 | Hey, Daniel, welcome to the show. |
| 0:59.2 | Maria, always a pleasure, thank you. |
| 1:01.2 | And also in DC is Angela Maria Kelly. |
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