Arizona… and the battle for the Latino vote
Americast
BBC
4.3 • 3.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Latinos are the second-largest group of eligible voters in the US, making their influence in the presidential election potentially pivotal.
Sarah is investigating their sway in Arizona - a state that could help decide the outcome of the race. Which party benefits the most from winning The Grand Canyon State? And is Donald Trump or Kamala Harris making more in-roads with Latino voters?
Americast brings in Mike Madrid, a veteran Latino pollster and strategist. What are demographic trends telling us about how Latinos will vote, and do Democrats need to shift their messaging to connect with this key voting bloc?
HOSTS: • Justin Webb, Radio 4 presenter • Sarah Smith, North America Editor • Anthony Zurcher, North America Correspondent
GUEST: • Mike Madrid, Latino Republican pollster & author of ‘The Latino Century’
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | So let me tell you, in the Latino community, in our community, we have a saying, |
| 0:09.7 | Ciseep whether it means yes, it means yes it means yes we can but tonight I'm here to tell you yes she can so |
| 0:19.7 | we're gonna say she's that boy they when somebody asks, |
| 0:24.0 | is she going to be the first female president of the United States? |
| 0:28.0 | We're going to say, |
| 0:30.0 | she said, |
| 0:32.0 | boy they're going to say, our voices, our vote. Jesus Winnie! Our Voices! |
| 0:34.0 | Our Vote! |
| 0:35.0 | That was Eva Longoria, one of America's biggest Latino celebrities, the actress, |
| 0:40.0 | making that appeal at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last month. |
| 0:44.6 | And it was important that she was on stage talking about she se pewe because it's an absolutely |
| 0:50.3 | key demographic that the Harris campaign needs to do better with quite |
| 0:54.3 | frankly if she's going to be elected to the White House. So in this episode we are going |
| 0:58.8 | to be talking about how important the Latino vote is and what either campaign could be doing to try to win them over, |
| 1:06.6 | what the strategy ought to be and what the outcome is likely to be. |
| 1:09.4 | And to do that, we're in the state of Arizona, which is one of the biggest and youngest populations of |
| 1:14.0 | Latino voters, and a state which has only ever voted for a Democratic president twice in the |
| 1:19.2 | last 50 years. |
| 1:20.2 | So what would the Harris campaign need to do to try and win Arizona? That's what we're |
| 1:24.7 | talking about in this episode. Welcome to AmeriCast. |
| 1:28.0 | AmeriCast. |
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