A Third Of The Latino Vote

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 30 October 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Why do Latinos support Trump? Many people have asked this question since 2016, when, after launching his campaign by calling Mexican immigrants rapists, Trump still won almost a third of the Latino vote. Polls indicate that Trump could do it again—or even increase his support among Latino voters in 2020. In this episode, we talk to historian Geraldo Cadava and to longtime Latino Republicans to understand why roughly a third of Latino voters have supported Republican presidential candidates ever since the 1970s.

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0:00.0	Did you ever vote for a Republican?
0:09.0	No.
0:11.0	This is historian, Herald Okadadan, and he's talking on the phone with his grandma, Gloria.
0:17.9	And did you and grandpa ever...
0:19.9	I never, ever, ever been a Republican.
0:25.4	But grandpa has been.
0:27.4	Yeah.
0:28.4	Did you guys ever argue about politics or no?
0:31.4	Yeah, a little bit.
0:32.4	Like, were you arguing about particular issues like Republicans who are like this or Democrats
0:37.7	who are like this?
0:38.7	Do you remember?
0:39.7	No, he just always say that Trump was the man and Trump was good and, you know, and I'd
0:45.7	say, Jerry, I don't want to talk politics.
0:48.0	That's what I was saying.
0:51.0	But we, dear listener, we are going to talk politics.
0:58.4	From Futuro Media, it's Latino USA.
1:01.8	I'm Mariano Jose.
1:03.4	And today, we're going to talk about Latino Republicans.
1:12.1	When Donald Trump announced his campaign for president in 2015, by saying this about
1:17.9	immigrants from Mexico...
1:19.5	They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists, and some are still
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