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How Democrats Can Win Latinos Back (Ep. 4)

The Wilderness

The Wilderness

News, Politics

4.812.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 June 2024

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Jon is joined by Carlos Odio and Stephanie Valencia, founders of Equis Research, the nation’s leading polling and research firm focused on the Latino electorate, to talk about what Democrats can do to win back the Latino voters who left the party for Trump in 2016 and 2020. Why are some of them leaning towards Trump? How did they react to Biden’s border actions? And what issues are they most focused on in 2024? Jon, Carlos, and Stephanie dive into the focus groups to answer these questions and Leo Murrieta, Director of Make the Road Nevada, joins to talk about his trip to the White House and offer his advice for the Biden campaign.

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0:00.0

The Trump campaign has tried in kind of a fake way to stir the pot with you know

0:10.2

brown folks Latinos Latinos, immigrants,

0:13.4

the coalition of conservative brown people

0:16.6

that he had in 2016, they're still there.

0:21.8

That didn't really grow, but we have seen a small growth in

0:27.3

Latino men going towards you know this messaging and realistically it's a discussion on machismo, misogyny, right?

0:36.4

Like Trump plays into those cultural discussions and like it's a problem.

0:43.0

Leo Murietta came to America when he was just seven days old.

0:47.0

Now he's trying to make life better for other immigrants as director of Make the Road Nevada,

0:51.0

a nonprofit based in Las Vegas that works towards organizing immigrant communities.

0:55.6

It's especially important work ahead of this election.

1:00.4

Latinos make up one and every five registered voters in Nevada, a state that Joe

1:05.4

Biden won by just over 2% in 2020. In fact, Nevada is the only swing state where

1:10.9

Donald Trump did better than he did in 2016.

1:13.2

And he also improved his margins with Latinos across the country.

1:17.0

If that seems baffling to you, considering that Trump ran the most xenophobic campaign

1:21.1

in modern history, you're not alone.

1:23.0

But Latino voters, just like all voters, have views about politics and immigration that are diverse and complicated.

1:31.0

Take, for example, Biden's recent action to limit the number of migrants

1:34.8

who can seek asylum in the U.S. by crossing the southern border. Polls show the move was popular

1:39.6

not only with most voters, but with most Latino voters. Still, most isn't everyone. We've seen some division

1:48.4

within the older immigrant communities, like the undocumented folks who have

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