Hola Latino USA listener, it's Mariano Hosa. So I want to share an episode from In the

Thick, which is our politics podcast. It's also part of our Futuro Media family. And it's

a show that I also co-host. In this In the Thick episode, my co-host Julio Ricardo Marela

and I speak with Jennifer Medina. She's a national politics reporter at the New York Times. And

ahead of the midterms, we have a conversation trying to make sense about all of the recent

polling focused on Latino and Latina voters, which are, as you know, the second largest

voting cohort in the United States. So what do Latino voters care about? What assumptions

about Latino voters are both parties getting wrong? The answers are on this episode of In the

Thick. So please take a listen.

Well, all of these polls really make clear is Latinos need to be messaged to. I need to

be spoken to and their concerns have to be taken seriously because they can vote in

all sorts of directions. From Futuro Media and PRX, it's In the Thick, a podcast about politics,

race and culture. I'm Mariano Jose. And I'm Julio Ricardo Marela. We have a very special

guest today joining us from Los Angeles, California is Jennifer Medina. She's a national

politics reporter for the New York Times. Hey Jennifer, welcome to the show. Thank you so

much for having me. Super excited to be here. Me too, me too, we're so excited to have

you. And yeah, everybody is still recording from home. So in the background, you may happen

to hear some dog toys. That's my house. Just full disclosure. So Jennifer, look, anybody

who knows politics and reads the New York Times knows that this is the space where you live.

You live and breathe in politics. And right now we are weeks away from these really important

midterms, which will determine kind of the future of the politics of the country. So we

like to ask this question of our journalists who do this kind of hardcore political reporting.

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