This is in conversation from Apple News. I'm Shemeiz-Bassu. Today, why a crucial

loading block is warming up to the far right. Latinos in the United States, a growing group of voters could cast decisive

ballots in this presidential election. Historically, they've leaned

Democratic.

Barack Obama won 70% of the Latino vote in 2012.

Hillary Clinton captured roughly the same in 2016.

When Trump ran for re-election, Latinos registered and came out to vote in record numbers.

And those numbers indicated a small but notable shift.

Come 2020, Donald Trump does between 8 to 10 points better with Latino voters in 2020

than he does in 2016.

There's many reasons to explain that.

The first explanation is that who Latino voters are today

is so vastly different from who we are 20, 30 years ago.

That's journalist Paula Ramos.

She spent years talking to Latino voters, first working for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns, and then as a reporter for Vice and MSNBC.

In her new book, Defectors, The Rise of the Latino Far right and what it means for America, she describes how

far right ideas and Trump's messaging in particular are gaining popularity among some Latinos. I'm seeing a small but growing group of people that is warming up to the idea of mass

deportations in the wall, that is warming up to the idea of Christian nationalism, that is warming

up to sort of the divisive anti-black rhetoric,

know that it's sort of warming up to the core of it all,

which is the us versus them narrative.

Paula is quick to say that her book isn't about the Latino vote as a single thing. This is a multifaceted,

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