Unpacking the Latino Vote, and Susan Orlean on the Queen of Tigers

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🗓️ 22 November 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

In the lead-up to this year’s midterm elections, many pundits expected Republicans to make significant gains among Latino voters, further eroding a base of support that Democrats have arguably taken for granted for decades. “What happened instead, as you know, is a more complicated story,” the contributing writer Stephania Taladrid says, one that both parties will be examining closely as 2024 approaches. Taladrid speaks with two political consultants, Chuck Rocha and Mike Madrid, to unpack the results. Rocha and Madrid co-host “The Latino Vote” podcast. Rocha, a Democrat, was a senior adviser to Bernie Sanders and Madrid, a Republican, was a founding member of the Lincoln Project.

And Susan Orlean reads from one of her Afterword columns, about the long and fecund life of a tiger mother. “Unlike most tiger mothers,” she writes, “Collarwali was, in fact, a tiger.”

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0:00.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNWC Studios and the New Yorker.
0:10.2	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, I'm David Remnick.
0:14.0	Last week, the state of Nevada reelected a Democrat to the U.S. Senate.
0:18.9	That was a decisive moment.
0:21.0	Katherine Cortez Mastos' win gave the Democrats their 50th seat in the Senate.
0:26.9	The runoff in Georgia next month will surely be dramatic, but the deal was sealed in Nevada.
0:33.8	Our contributor, Stephanie Attelejred, covered the race from Las Vegas and early on the morning
0:39.4	of Election Day, she was at a rally held by the Culinary Workers Union.
0:48.3	Katherine Cortez Mastos addressed the crowd.
0:51.3	So the mood in the room was ecstatic, but at the national level, many people actually
1:08.1	thought that Senator Cortez Mastos was at risk of losing the selection.
1:13.2	And beyond that, that Republicans would make significant gains among Latino voters.
1:18.5	What happened instead, as you know, is a more complicated story.
1:22.7	Stephanie has been covering Latino politics for the New Yorker, not only in Nevada, but
1:26.8	in Texas, Florida, and elsewhere in the country.
1:31.0	To better understand what happened here, I wanted to talk with Chuck Rocha and Mike Madrid.
1:36.8	They host a podcast that I listened to called the Latino vote.
1:40.4	They're both political consultants on opposite sides of the aisle.
1:44.6	Chuck was a senior advisor to Bernie Sanders, Mike was a founding member of the Lincoln
1:48.7	project.
1:50.1	And it's just been so refreshing for me, listening to their podcast, to hear two veteran political
1:55.7	analysts having a really nuanced and honest conversation about the state of the Latino
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