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“It’s also important to note that this interlocked relationship between immigration and white supremacy is not new. Immigration has long been one of the least constitutional and most racist realms of U.S. law and life. So, if Biden is real about standing up for a U.S. future that is not defined by white supremacy, he…
Read More | November 13, 2020
Latinos showed up in record numbers, with an early estimate of 14.8 million by UCLA’s Latino Politics and Policy Initiative. Young Latino voters helped drive that turnout, with roughly 1.7 million voting early — a nearly three-fold increase over 2016, according to the political data firm TargetSmart. Women, who have suffered disproportionately from job losses…
Matt Barreto, a political scientist and co-founder of the public opinion research firm Latino Decisions who worked with Biden campaign, argues that it’s important to remember that Trump’s 2016 campaign was a low point in the GOP’s efforts to appeal to Latino voters. (Also: MSN News.)
In Gwinnett County, a suburban county of Atlanta, Biden got 75 percent of the vote in precincts with high concentrations of Latinos, according to an analysis by the University of California, Los Angeles Latino Policy and Politics Institute. (Also: NBC News and DNYUZ.)
“This was a historic turnout, everyone turned out. Like our data at UCLA made clear, Latinos provided that razor-thin edge to the coalition of non-white voters in Milwaukee, Pennsylvania, Nevada, and Georgia,” says Sonja Diaz.
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