Both Parties Vie For Latino Voters To Boost Midterms Hopes

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🗓️ 27 January 2022

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A new congressional district in Colorado that is forty percent could be the site of one of the country's closest House races in November. Democratic organizers in Colorado and across the country are worried their party may not to be able to win enough support with Latino voters after Republicans proved competitive with the crucial demographic in 2020.

This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, congressional reporter Claudia Grisales, and demographics and culture correspondent Danielle Kurtzleben.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is the Loller family in Shian China, where our citywide 13 million person lockdown was just lifted after 32 days, and for our family, 24 COVID tests.
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0:15.0	209 PM on Thursday the 27th of January.
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0:23.0	Okay, here's the show.
0:25.0	I hope they get out, they have fun.
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0:33.0	Exactly.
0:34.0	Go to bars, go to restaurants, lick door knobs.
0:36.0	I don't know what you do.
0:38.0	I can't even find 24 tests.
0:40.0	I know, how they do that?
0:43.0	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:46.0	I'm Tamer Keith, I cover the White House.
0:48.0	I'm Claudia Griesellis, I cover Congress.
0:50.0	And I'm Danielle Kertzleyban, I cover demographics and culture.
0:53.0	Danielle, you are just back from a reporting trip that you went to to Colorado.
0:57.0	You went to this brand new Congressional District, North of Denver,
1:01.0	that is expected to bring a close race in November.
1:06.0	And that's pretty rare in this polarized era, so tell us about this district.
1:12.0	Sure, yeah, so this was the eighth Congressional District in Colorado.
1:16.0	It stretches up like you said, it's north of Denver, so it doesn't include Denver proper.
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