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Matt Barreto co-authored an opinion piece that highlights lessons learned about Latino voters in Florida. Barreto calls on Democrats to rethink how to approach Latino outreach and engagement, from top to bottom with grassroots organizing.
Read More | January 25, 2021
“As we approach the inauguration of the Biden–Harris administration, it’s important to remember the groups that helped secure their victory,” said Sonja Diaz, the founding director of the Latino Policy and Politics Institute.
Matt Barreto, professor of political science and Chicano Studies at UCLA; was part of the Biden campaign to direct their Latino polling and messaging research. Barreto appears on Airtalk to discuss Biden’s plan on immigration. “At the top of that list will be a campaign promise that he made at the end which was to…
Matt Barreto, co-founder of LD Insights and an adviser to the Biden campaign, said Biden would have done better with Florida’s Hispanic voters if the campaign understood how Biden’s Covid-19 and economic message wasn’t direct enough for many Latinos. “Now that Democrats have the majorities, they need to fully lean into their support for populist,…
“Latino vote growth was stronger and outpaced the national surge of voters in 2020. This is important because much of the national coverage of the Democrat-Republican vote split assumes a stagnate electorate with the same number of voters,” Dr. Matt Barreto, professor of Political Science of Chicana/o Studies and UCLA LPPI’s faculty director, told Latino…
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