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“Florida has always been tough. It’s a tough contest. It’s essential to any sort of Trump victory tonight. What we know is that the Trump campaign has extended a lot of resources. They’ve had targeted messaging to really pinpoint the different diversity among Florida’s Latino community,” said Sonja Diaz.
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“Our polling found that it was going to be tight in these places, and that the Latino vote was going to be decisive. If you look at places like Florida, let’s start there, let’s not generalize for Miami-Dade County. It’s only one county out of 3,000 counties across America. And the Latino vote overall was…
“I do think there’s been a shift and the question is, why?” said Gary Segura, senior partner with Latino Decisions and dean of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. “One reason for the shift was that Joe Biden was not as well known among Latino households as the Clinton family was. But more importantly, Democrats…
“For the first time in 24 years, since 1996 when Clinton (Democrat Bill) won, a Democratic president wins again in Arizona … this was entirely the work of Latino community organizations, and they began to see results in 2018”, when Democratic senator Kyrsten Sinema won, explained Rodrigo Domínguez Villegas, research director of Latino policy initiatives…
And while Latino voter turnout grew this year, the very universe of Latino voters is growing. That growth is fueled by young people in states like California, Arizona and Texas, said Matt Barreto, professor of political science and Chicano/a Studies at UCLA and co-founder of the research and polling firm Latino Decisions. The 2018 midterm…
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