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“What we know is that voter participation ( ‘turnout’ , in English) was absolutely historic , ” said Matt Barreto, co – founder of Latino Decisions and one of the gurus of the Hispanic vote. “I’m calculating that 16.5 million (Latinos) voted .” This is much more than the nearly 13 million who voted in…
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UCLA’s Latino Policy and Politics Institute called the Latino vote decisive in Wisconsin, where Biden won the battleground state. (Also: Killeen Daily Herald, The Marietta Daily Journal, and Finger Lakes Times.)
“It is true that the Biden campaign did not prioritize Texas a tipping point state and the reason is, it was not a tipping point state. The tipping point states were Pennsylvania and Arizona. That is just a fact of reality,” Matt Barreto said. “Now, that does not mean that I do not want personally…
Even with marginal gains for Republicans in Philadelphia, returns crunched by the UCLA Center for Latino Policy & Politics Institute show that precincts where more Latinos lived tended to vote overwhelmingly for Biden, and helped deliver his win.
“Election night was a rollercoaster, but it seemed that the underrepresentation of diverse voices, particularly Latino voices in major news organizations, were just all about Cubans that voted for Trump, the only demographic to choose him over Vice President Biden in the country,” says Sonja Diaz. (Also: CalMatters.)
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