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“There was little outreach by the Democrats and the Biden campaign,” said Gary Segura, dean of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. “And there’s an important lesson here. I think the one place where President Trump did invest in Latinos is in South Florida, and he was rewarded for that. So investment matters, being…
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“Speaking about the how Biden garnered Latino votes in key states,” Sonja Diaz said: “All of this was made possible not by political parties, pollsters, or expensive strategists. It happened because Latinos were being vilified by purposely racist policy making in key areas of our communities in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina.”
In Philadelphia, where a growing Puerto Rican community has become a political force in the swing state, Biden carried over 75% of the vote in precincts with high concentrations of Latinos, according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at UCLA. (Also: KCTV Kansas City.)
Laura E. Gómez, a professor at UCLA’s law school and author of the book “Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism,” said affirmative action practices is a tool that could have addressed the barriers Latino students face to be successful in higher education settings.
“Biden was not a household name for most Latino households, unlike Secretary Clinton, and he wasn’t really in the position to campaign because of the COVID epidemic,” Gary Segura said during a presentation on the poll with media, adding that was one explanation for the drop in Democratic support among Latinos.
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