Are Democrats Blowing It With Latino Voters?
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🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Democratic operatives who specialize in Latino voter outreach are sounding the alarm: The Biden campaign assumes Latino support at its own peril.
Guest: Chuck Rocha, head of Nuestro PAC.
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| 0:00.0 | Chuck Rocha advises Democrats on how they can win over Latino voters. |
| 0:10.0 | He likes to call himself a redneck, wears a big cowboy hat. |
| 0:14.1 | I guess what I'm saying is he's got an ego. |
| 0:18.9 | Have you read one of the 100 articles about the lagging support amongst Latinos for Joe Biden? |
| 0:24.9 | I've read a couple of them, yeah. |
| 0:26.9 | Only 99 of them am I quoted in. |
| 0:29.5 | He also runs the country's largest Latino super PAC. |
| 0:33.4 | Let me go to professional Chuck now. |
| 0:35.3 | Oh, but I like this Chuck. Can we stay with this Chuck? |
| 0:38.7 | Nope. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm going to plug in my good mic. |
| 0:42.4 | When I called up Chuck, I wanted to talk about this cringe-worthy video of Joe Biden that came out this week. |
| 0:49.0 | In it, Biden is addressing supporters in Florida. |
| 0:51.8 | He's got a TOTOS-Con Biden sign on his lectern. |
| 0:55.0 | And after he walks up, he whips out his phone and starts playing Despacito. |
| 1:01.1 | They're going to. |
| 1:04.5 | All right. |
| 1:07.6 | And while he's up there, one guy, the guy who wrote the song actually, is awkwardly clapping. |
| 1:15.6 | Even in this particular moment, when social distancing has made every campaign event a little uncomfortable, this appearance stood out. |
| 1:24.8 | It's just like when campaigns sometimes try to throw in a few Spanish words that you teach |
| 1:29.6 | your white candidate, it just always lands a little flat. |
| 1:33.2 | What happened here, it also seemed to reinforce that narrative Chuck's been talking about, |
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