Imperfect Paradise: Republican strategist on what both parties get wrong about the Latino vote

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🗓️ 30 October 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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As the country’s second largest group of eligible voters, Latino constituents will play a pivotal role in the upcoming election. As both parties try to capture and define the elusive “Latino vote,” Imperfect Paradise host Antonia Cereijido sits down with Republican strategist Mike Madrid to explore what Republicans and Democrats get wrong in their messaging, why Latino men have been drawn in by MAGA politics, and what defines the third generation Latino voter who’s coming into their own this election.

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0:00.0	Support for LAS comes from UCLA's Department of Statistics and Data Science,
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0:26.0	voting can be complicated
0:28.0	L. A. is here to help check out L. A.S. voter game
0:31.0	plan the fact-based voter guide that will give you the tools you need to navigate your ballot.
0:35.0	Visit Voter Game Plan at LAS.com.
0:41.0	This is In Perfect Paradise, the show about the gap between the dream and reality.
0:46.0	I'm Antonia Cérejido.
0:48.0	We're continuing our conversations with notable Californians in the lead up to the election.
0:57.3	Our final conversation is with Republican campaign strategist and author of the Latino century, Mike Madrid.
1:04.8	Every four years, the question of whether there is a Latino vote
1:08.1	and what that means to US politics gets batted around
1:11.1	across newsrooms.
1:12.6	Cobbweps are cleared off the phrase,
1:14.5	Latinos are not a monolith.
1:16.7	But in Mike Madrid's latest book, the Latino century,
1:20.2	he argues that there is, in fact, a Latino vote and that neither party has been able to unlock it.
1:30.0	Mike grew up in Ventura County and is a third-generation Mexican-American.
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