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“In counties with high Latino density, many of them key in this count, Latino voters opted forย Vice President Biden, and this has been largely in the struggles of the same Hispanic groups,”ย says Sonja Diaz, detracting from the work of the Democratic Party. (Also: Star-Telegram.)ย Gary Segura, co-founder of Latino Decisions, highlighted that Latino…
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โA majority of Latinos in the U.S. live in counties that are not majority Latino,โ said Matt Barreto,ย a political scientist at UCLA who conducted polling among Latino voters for the Biden campaign.ย โThere does appear to be less support in rural areas.โย
โThere was little outreach by the Democrats and the Biden campaign,โ said Gary Segura, deanย of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. โAnd thereโs an important lesson here. I think theย one place where President Trump did invest in Latinos is in South Florida, and he was rewardedย ย for that. So investment matters, being…
โSpeaking about the how Biden garnered Latino votes in key states,โ Sonja Diaz said: โAll ofย this was made possible not by political parties, pollsters, or expensive strategists. It happenedย because Latinos were being vilified by purposely racist policy making in key areas of ourย communities in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, and North Carolina.โ
In Philadelphia, where a growing Puerto Rican community has become a political force in theย swing state, Biden carried over 75% of the vote in precincts with high concentrations of Latinos,ย according to the Latino Policy & Politics Institute at UCLA. (Also: KCTV Kansas City.)
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