Demographics aren't destiny

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🗓️ 23 October 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Latinos and other groups that typically vote for Democrats are showing weaker support for Kamala Harris. Vox's Christian Paz and Cook Political Report's Amy Walter explain how that's shaking up this election. This episode was produced by Avishay Artsy and Eliza Dennis, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Andrea Kristinsdottir and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/today-explained-podcast Support Today, Explained by becoming a Vox Member today: http://www.vox.com/member. This story is part of The Present - and future - of the American Left package. More here: https://trib.al/vnUL3o6. Supporters of Kamala Harris put up posters in Latino neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you know like Fox News there's this narrative that President Biden let lots of
0:06.6	Latinos in through the southern border to win elections. The reality is the plan
0:11.1	from the beginning get these people here as fast as possible and get
0:14.9	them voting. But if you look at how Latinos are polling it doesn't seem like that
0:18.6	plans working out. Well it turns out many of those immigrants aren't necessarily automatically going to become
0:24.6	Democratic voters.
0:25.6	Turns out that as they enter the country, settle, start families, have kids, have grandkids.
0:32.1	They are becoming just as diverse and complicated as the
0:35.7	country they were trying to come be a part of. There's some truth to some of what
0:40.2	Reagan and other Republicans used to say about their line back in the day was.
0:45.0	Hispanics or conservatives or Republicans, they just don't know it yet.
0:49.0	Turns out there might be some truth to that.
0:51.0	Demographics be some truth to that.
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