This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC studios and the New Yorker.

Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remini.

With all the headlines about Kamala Harris's surging campaign

and poll numbers that indicate a very real change is taking place. The 2024 race remains extremely close.

Harris and Tim Waltz can hardly expect to win a national election on vibes alone.

Any Democrat or anyone really who remembers 2016 will tell you

that it would be kind of crazy to write off Donald Trump just yet. So today we're going to look at two critical aspects of the

Republicans race to reclaim the White House. Back in 2013 after Mitt Romney's

loss to Barack Obama, a Republican autopsy of the campaign said that

Latino voters were being turned off by the party's hard-lined stance on immigration.

The report said if Hispanic Americans hear that the

G. O. P. doesn't want them in the United States, they won't pay attention to our

next sentence. Well, that turned out to be wrong.

Since 2015, Donald Trump has said any number of false, misleading, and racist things about people

from Mexico and Central America.

He put in place policies like child separation at the border.

And yet his share of the Latino vote

increased in 2020 and the trend continues.

Comparing Trump and Biden back in July,

Latino voters were split evenly.

All of this was on Geraldo Kadava's mind

when he covered the Republican National Convention for the New Yorker.

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