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🗓️ 16 February 2025
⏱️ 29 minutes
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In the second episode of our new series "Hombre: Understanding Latino Men," Maria Hinojosa sits down with two young Latino voters from Texas. Alejandro Flores, from Dallas, cast his ballot for Kamala Harris in 2024. First-time voter Alexis Uscanga, from the Rio Grande Valley, chose Donald Trump. This roundtable gets into the issues that informed both Alexis’ and Alejandro’s vote.
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0:00.0 | We are all different in our own manners, right? |
0:10.0 | Mexican-Americans are going to be so much more different than Cuban Americans. |
0:15.0 | And that's something that the media, I think, still quite doesn't understand. |
0:20.0 | From Futuro Media I think still quite doesn't understand. |
0:26.8 | From Futuro Media and PRX, it's Latino USA. |
0:27.9 | I'm Maria Inojosa. |
0:31.3 | Today, episode two of our new series, |
0:33.7 | Ombre, Understanding Latino Men. |
0:36.4 | We sit down with two young Latino voters with very similar backgrounds but opposite political views. |
0:45.3 | Dear listener, last month we launched a new series. It's called Ombre, understanding Latino men. |
0:55.8 | And we did this after seeing conversations happening about Latino men, who essentially shifted |
1:02.1 | right in the last presidential election, but without having a lot of Latino men participating |
1:08.0 | in those conversations. |
1:09.7 | We here at Latino USA want to understand what motivated Latino men to vote more Republican this time around. |
1:17.4 | We also want to understand what informed the Latino men who stayed with the Democratic Party. |
1:24.9 | Today, we're going to hear from two Hombres Latinos, Alejandro Flores and Alexis Uscanga. |
1:32.5 | They're both Mexican-American, both from Texas, and both from similar socioeconomic backgrounds. |
1:40.2 | Alexis is 21 years old from Harlingen, Texas. |
1:44.5 | He's a student at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, and he's also a first-time voter, |
1:50.2 | and he chose to vote for Donald Trump. |
1:52.7 | Thank you for having me. |
1:54.1 | Alejandro is 31 years old from Dallas, and he works in IT. |
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