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News Articles: Latino voters

El Mofongo Restaurant in Reading, Pa. — a popular restaurant for Puerto Rican and Dominican residents in the city —  on Nov. 2, 2024.

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  • Politics

Trump and Harris are in Reading, Pa., today, thanks to a bad joke about Puerto Rico

The candidates are both spending time on the last day of the campaign in Reading — a majority-Latino city — where that bad joke about Puerto Rico has resonated.

November 04, 2024
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By:
  • Carmen Russell-Sluchansky
Vice President Harris reacts as she takes a question from a member of the audience during a Univision town hall at Cox Pavilion at UNLV in Las Vegas on Thursday.

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  • Politics

Harris uses town hall to show empathy with Latino voters

Vice President Harris took questions on inflation, immigration and the way she became the Democratic nominee from undecided voters in her first town hall.

October 12, 2024
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By:
  • Danielle Kurtzleben and
  • Jason Breslow
Christy Rosales owns a small clothing shop in a Latino market in East Las Vegas, Nev. She worries about the economy and that's why she plans to vote for Donald Trump in 2024.

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  • Politics

Republicans see Latino voters in Nevada as key to retaking the White House in 2024

Former President Donald Trump has pretty sharp rhetoric around immigration. At the same time, he is trying to reach a potentially powerful voting bloc in pivotal swing states: Latinos.

February 13, 2024
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
President Biden delivered remarks at the White House before the Senate killed the bipartisan bill that would provide funding for border security, Israel and Ukraine.

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  • Politics

Biden's new move is playing offense on border politics. But will voters be swayed?

President Biden is now blaming Republicans for the crisis at the southern border after they blocked a bipartisan bill to fund more border security. But there are limits to the strategy.

February 09, 2024
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By:
  • Deepa Shivaram
Jennifer Nuno checks her 11-year-old son's back-to-school haircut in the Lincoln Village neighborhood of Milwaukee on August 21.

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  • Politics

In a state where elections can be close, Wisconsin Latinos learn their political power

Wisconsin is not known for the power of the Latino vote, but in a state with such tiny margins even a small shift can have a big impact on national politics.

September 03, 2023
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By:
  • Franco Ordoñez
Photo of Arlene Hermida, Isabel Perez, Leonel Mera, and Will Feliciano

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  • Politics

Latino voters look beyond immigration, and hope candidates will, too

While immigration remains a threshold issue for many Latino voters, it is not the only thing they're focused on ahead of the midterms.

November 02, 2022
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By:
  • Pablo Valdivia
Former Georgia running back and Republican Georgia Senate candidate Herschel Walker attends a college football game between UAB and Georgia, Sept. 11, 2021, in Athens, Ga. Police in Irving, Texas once confiscated a gun from Walker following a domestic disturbance because the former football legend talked about having “a shoot-out with police.” The revelation was included in a 2001 police report that recently obtained by The Associated Press.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Second woman alleges Walker paid for abortion; Latino vote; Poll workers

Thursday on Political Rewind: A second woman has alleged that Herschel Walker tried to convince her to have an abortion. How will it affect his campaign?



Plus, election officials brace for disruptions at polling places motivated by the "big lie" conspiracy.

And a look at Georgia's Hispanic electorate.

 

October 27, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
Migrants wait outside the City of San Antonio Migrant Resource Center, where two planeloads of mostly Venezuelan migrants sent via Florida to Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts had originated, in San Antonio, Texas, U.S. September 16, 2022. Photo by Jordan Vonderhaar/REUTERS

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Hispanic voters favoring Democratic candidates; U.S. House solidifies election law

Friday on Political Rewind: Republicans claimed a larger share of Hispanic votes in 2020 than they'd usually get, but a new poll says Democrats have reversed those gains. Plus, the U.S. House passed a bill to close loopholes that Trump allies tried to use to decertify the election.

September 23, 2022
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By:
  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
A Joe Biden supporter attends a drive-in voter mobilization event in Miramar, Fla., on Oct. 13, 2020. Democrats lost Florida because they failed to engage and target their message to the Latino community, says Quentin James, president of The Collective PAC.

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  • Politics

Democrats Are Waiting Too Long To Reach Black And Latino Voters, A New Report Says

Voters of color should not be treated as "get-out-the-vote targets," says the head of one of the groups that issued the report. Instead, outreach needs to start one to two years before an election.

June 09, 2021
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By:
  • Leila Fadel
Geraldo Cadava, author of <em>The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump</em>

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  • Race

What Pundits Get Wrong About The Latino Vote

Geraldo Cadava, author of The Hispanic Republican, discusses the biggest misconceptions about Latino voters, who are projected to be the largest nonwhite voting demographic in 2020.

October 30, 2020
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By:
  • Natalie Escobar
Black Lives Matter protesters display wristbands reading "I Voted" after leaving a polling place this month in Louisville, Ky. Activists warn Black and Latino voters are being flooded with disinformation intended to suppress turnout in the election's final days.

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  • Elections

Black And Latino Voters Flooded With Disinformation In Election's Final Days

Hoaxes and misleading posts aimed at depressing turnout have spread on social media. Experts say it outpaces 2016, when Black voters were the top target of Russian-backed disinformation.

October 30, 2020
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By:
  • Shannon Bond
Supporters of President Trump wave during a Latinos for Trump roundtable last month at the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix.

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  • National

Many Latino Men Are Supporting President Trump This Election

The Latino vote will be key across the country, especially in tight races in places such as Arizona and Florida. About one quarter of Latinos, mostly men, steadily support the president, polls show.

October 28, 2020
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By:
  • Leila Fadel

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