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The NPR Politics Podcast

It's Been A Minute: How Latino Voter Outreach Still Falls Short

The NPR Politics Podcast

NPR

Politics, Daily News, News

4.524.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In this special episode from It's Been A Minute With Sam Sanders, Sam dives into the short falls of Latino voter outreach.

Latinos are the second largest group of eligible voters by race or ethnicity in the United States, but they continue to be misunderstood and underappreciated by political campaigns of all parties.

Sam talks to Lisa García Bedolla, a scholar of Latino politics, about how the word "Latino" encompasses diverse communities of all political stripes and life experiences, and he checks in with the former mayor of a small town in Texas who's been thinking of Latino voter outreach for a long time.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

0:05.3

I'm Danielle Kurtz-Lavin.

0:06.8

Today, we've got a special episode for you from our dear friend, Sam Sanders of the NPR

0:11.6

Podcast, It's Been a Minute.

0:13.8

Sam has been really interested in how candidates and campaigns have been reaching out to voters

0:17.9

of all backgrounds and experiences.

0:20.7

And in this episode, Sam looks into the political outreach efforts from all parties to Latino

0:25.4

voters.

0:26.6

It's a fast growing group and one that somehow is still a mystery to Republicans and Democrats.

0:31.8

So let's get to it.

0:33.3

Here's the show.

0:34.3

Can you hear me?

0:35.3

I can.

0:36.3

Okay, thank you for your patience.

0:38.7

First things first, tell our listeners your full name and whatever title you want to

0:44.8

go by.

0:45.8

Yeah, I'm Victor Lial.

0:48.2

It's VICTOR, L-E-A-L.

0:50.2

I live in a small town on the South Plains called Mule Shoot, Texas.

0:57.4

And I guess I'm the owner, operator of Lial's Mexican food restaurants.

1:04.0

Yes, you heard that right.

1:05.6

Victor Lial is from Mule Shoot, Texas.

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