How Latino Conservatives Could Influence the 2020 Election

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🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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While there is a perception that Latinos tend to vote for Democrats, a significant percentage, especially in places such as California's Central Valley, Texas and Florida, side with the Republican Party. In a time when President Donald Trump has demonized and targeted Latinos, he nonetheless has garnered support of some Latino voters. In his latest book, “The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, from Nixon to Trump,” historian and political commentator Geraldo Cadava, chronicles the history of Latinos organizing to support conservative candidates and causes. Cadava, who teaches at Northwestern University, joins us to discuss his book and how Hispanic Republicans could hold sway during the upcoming election. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:01.1	From KQVD Public Radio in San Francisco, I'm Mina Kim.
1:07.4	Coming up on forum, while it's true that most of America's Latinx voters have supported Democrats for generations,
1:13.6	Republican candidates have consistently won about 20 to 30 percent of the Latino vote, including President Trump, who over the course of his presidency, hasn't lost much ground among conservative Latinos.
1:19.6	20 to 30 percent is enough to hold sway in the upcoming election, says historian and political analyst,
1:25.6	Geraldo Kadaba, who set out to explain the loyalty of this
1:29.0	voting bloc in his new book, The Hispanic Republican, the shaping of an American political identity
1:34.3	from Nixon to Trump. He joins us after this news.
1:48.8	This is Forum. I'm Mina Kim. Recent polls show Democratic nominee Joe Biden underperforming among Latino voters in Florida,
1:55.0	with a poll yesterday finding Trump leads Biden 50 to 46 percent.
2:00.2	Biden's support among Latinos is also well behind where
2:02.7	Hillary Clinton was in 2016 exit polls in the swing state. Historian and political commentator
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