The Republican Push to Flip Latino Voters
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🗓️ 27 September 2022
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, good afternoon. You're the family of Talabera. |
| 0:11.4 | Helder Tasty has been knocking on doors in East Las Vegas. |
| 0:15.4 | A part of the city where most residents are working class Latinos. |
| 0:19.4 | Hello, my name is Elder. I'm here with Operation Vamos, a group that's talking to |
| 0:23.1 | La Guadalupe Spana. Normally, Helder works in DC with the National Republican Senatorial Committee. |
| 0:29.4 | The NRSC sent Helder to Vegas to reach out to Latino voters ahead of the midterm elections. |
| 0:36.5 | It takes a lot of walking in the sun. |
| 0:39.1 | The good thing is if you put a little bit of sunscreen, you can tan while you're out here. |
| 0:42.6 | That's my pro tip. |
| 0:43.8 | And waiting at people's doors. |
| 0:46.0 | So we'll be spending maybe 15 seconds at each door, 15, 20 seconds. |
| 0:50.5 | We're not making sure that we can hear a ring as possible and then we'll leave the information. |
| 0:54.9 | We mark them as not home and then we'll try to come back if we can. |
| 0:57.2 | All right, ready? Next up. |
| 1:00.0 | For the most part, Helder is there to listen. |
| 1:03.4 | He asks questions like, are you planning on voting? |
| 1:06.5 | In the elections, they're going to vote or not have decided yet. |
| 1:09.3 | I don't know much about voting. |
| 1:11.1 | The key question he asks is this. |
| 1:14.2 | Do you think the country is headed in the right direction? |
| 1:17.7 | And the answer Helder is getting is often no. |
| 1:29.8 | Helders efforts in East Las Vegas are part of a Republican strategy to leverage an emerging trend. |
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