Lincoln Project Co-Founder Mike Madrid: Latino Voters Have an Urgent Warning for Democrats

Published: March 28, 2022, 2:37 p.m.

b'Mike Madrid is a co-founder of the Lincoln Project, a longtime political consultant for candidates of both parties, and a leading expert on Latino voting. Mike says Latino voters are sounding an urgent alarm for the Democratic Party about how it may lose the presidency and more, by losing its working class base. And Mike believes that\\u2019s not just a problem for Democrats: At this time in our history, democracy needs Democrats to win. Mike says the problem is that Democrats have increasingly become the party of a well-educated, well-intentioned, but disconnected elite, as recently wrote an op-ed for the New York Times called \\u201cWhile Democrats Debate \\u2018Latinx,\\u2019 Latinos Head to the G.O.P.\\u201d In this episode, he discusses it with host Spencer Critchley in a fascinating, wide-ranging discussion.'