From New York Times, I'm Michael Borrow. This is a daily.

Latino voters have never seemed more electorally important or more up for grabs than in the

midterm elections next month that will determine whether Democrats or Republicans control Congress.

Today, my colleague Jennifer Medina on what a Times poll and a series of follow-up interviews

for the daily has revealed about how those voters see both parties.

It's Monday, October 3rd.

Jenny, you and our colleagues just conducted a major poll of Latino voters in the United States.

And the reason why I know doubt is that it's an enormously consequential voting block in an

enormously consequential election. The first real referendum on the Biden era of government,

the first time voters across the country are going to go to the polls since Donald Trump lost

the White House. So I want to start by asking you to quantify if you can the role that Latino

voters are expected to play in these consequential midterms.

So Latino voters will play a huge role in deciding both the House and the Senate and control

over Congress in two of the most consequential Senate races, Nevada and Arizona.

Latinos make up 20% of registered voters there. And in the House races, this is pretty unusual.

Latinos make up more than 20% of more than a dozen competitive House races.

Now, it's not unusual, of course, for Latinos to make up a big pool of voters in House races,

but in competitive races, that's a relatively new phenomenon.

So is this just a geographical coincidence this election year or is there something

about the fact that these districts have so many Latino voters that makes them so competitive?

It's really a little bit of both. The basic dynamic is that most of these districts were not

competitive before. They were either blue districts or red rural districts. And now they've been

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