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Latinos are more pro-choice than ever before. What spurred this change?

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🗓️ 19 October 2024

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Two decades ago, only a third of Latinos believed abortion should be legal in all or most cases. Today, that number has risen to 62 percent. So why are Latino voters in this country changing their minds about abortion?

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0:00.0

I'm in Phoenix, Arizona, where I am inside a Winnebago.

0:05.6

Hold on, I'm going to test the brakes, all right?

0:08.6

Those brakes, look!

0:10.2

Are you okay?

0:11.1

I'm okay, thank you. All right, I'll explain why we're in an RV in a moment, but we're here in Arizona all week because

0:18.0

this is a state that President Biden won by a sliver back in 2020 by just over 10,000 votes. And Arizona Latinos helped deliver that victory.

0:28.0

They're a quarter of all eligible voters in this state and that's the largest percentage of Latino voters in any

0:34.4

battleground state. On your next slide that's when you're going to turn left and that is

0:39.3

why Myra Rodriguez is going directly after this block of voters on the issue she cares the most about.

0:46.2

Abortion.

0:47.2

Even if it means enduring lousy air conditioning in this RV when it's 108 degrees outside.

0:54.0

Oh, you get sweaty, it is hot, right?

0:56.0

And this is what I tell my children and any people that complain about this heat.

1:01.0

If you don't like the heat, then imagine hell, right?

1:04.0

Hell, to Rodriguez, would be seeing Prop 139 pass. That's a ballot measure that would

1:10.8

expand access to abortion beyond the current 15 weeks here in Arizona

1:15.4

and would enshrine it as a right under the state's constitution which brings us back to

1:21.6

the Winnebago.

1:22.6

We cannot afford the big billboards and the big media, the other side can.

1:27.9

And you figure, why do I need to buy a whole bunch of billboards if I have one movable

1:31.4

billboard?

1:32.4

Exactly what we thought, right? one movable billboard. Exactly what we thought, right?

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