What About Electoral Power?

In The Thick

Futuro Media

Society, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Politics, Culture

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this special collaboration with Latino USA, Maria and Julio are joined by Sonja Diaz, founding director of the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at UCLA, and Jazmine Ulloa, national politics reporter for the New York Times, to talk about the complexity of Latino voters ahead of the midterm elections. They get into what they are hearing from voters on the ground, and the key races we should be keeping an eye on.

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0:55.2	I'm Maria Inojosa, and I'm Julio Ricalo-Varela.
0:58.2	And we're so excited for our guests joining us today from Los Angeles is Sonia Diaz.
1:04.2	She's the founding director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute at UCLA.
1:08.2	Hey Sonia.
1:09.2	Hey, thanks so much.
1:11.2	And joining us from Washington DC is Jasmine Uyua.
1:14.2	She's a national politics reporter for a little paper called The New York Times.
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