#22: Hello Cleveland: On the Road at the RNC
In The Thick
Futuro Media
4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2016
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
This week, In The Thick is in Cleveland covering the 2016 Republican National Convention. How do prominent conservative Latinos feel about Trump as their nominee? What can Trump do to gain their full support? And what does the future hold for the GOP's relationship with communities of color? Maria Hinojosa speaks with Daniel Garza, Executive Director of the Libre Initiative, Bettina Inclán, a Republican consultant and the former Director for Hispanic Outreach at the Republican National Committee, Jamil Smith, Senior National Correspondent at MTV News, and Julio Ricardo Varela, Political Editor for the Futuro Media Group.
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| 0:00.0 | I was waiting to hear Donald Trump and how he speaks to the Latino community. |
| 0:04.6 | I'm still waiting. |
| 0:05.7 | Hey, welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:09.4 | This is the podcast about politics and the race to the White House in 2016, we are the show that |
| 0:14.7 | examines this week's political news through a diverse lens and I'm your host |
| 0:18.6 | Mariano Rosa and this week in the thick is on the road at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. |
| 0:25.0 | So we're doing things a little bit differently. |
| 0:28.0 | And so to start off our show this week, I wanted to reach out and speak to Latino and Latina conservatives about having Donald |
| 0:34.8 | Trump as their nominee. |
| 0:36.0 | So on Tuesday, our political editor Julio Ricardo Varela and I had a chance to speak with Daniel |
| 0:41.3 | Garza, he's the executive director of the Libre Initiative, which is a conservative |
| 0:45.4 | Latino think tank. He's been a past guest on In the Thick, and we wanted to talk to him about |
| 0:52.1 | his reluctance to support Donald Trump, but his desire to give |
| 0:57.5 | Donald Trump a chance, asking for Donald Trump to speak directly to the Latino-Latina community and we also touched |
| 1:04.8 | on his vision for Latino conservatives in general. |
| 1:08.4 | So we are in Cleveland at the Republican National Convention and joining us now is Daniel Garza, the head of the Libra Initiative. Public and |
| 1:14.0 | joining us now is Daniel Garza, the head of the Libra Initiative. Welcome back to In The Thick. |
| 1:17.0 | I was a pleasure to be with him. |
| 1:18.0 | And we're with Julio Ricardo Barrella with us here at the RNC. |
| 1:21.0 | I'm your trusty sidekick. |
| 1:22.0 | Right. So Daniel, the last time you were on the show you were pretty clear that your your position was very much anti Hillary now we're at the Republican National Convention. Has it shifted now to this is really |
| 1:35.3 | a pro-Trump moment for you? |
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