The Latino Swing Voter
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Maria and Julio are joined by Jennifer Medina, a national politics reporter for The New York Times. They break down recent polling on Latino and Latina voters, including Futuro Media\\u2019s first-ever political poll. They also discuss the issues that actually matter to Latino and Latina voters, and what both parties are missing in their outreach. And, they get into Jennifer\\u2019s reporting on the rise of right-wing, conservative Latina candidates running on GOP platforms.
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Jennifer Medina writes about the challenges Nevada Senator Catherine Cortez Masto \\u2014 who is the first ever Latina senator \\u2014 is facing in her bid for re-election, as Democrats learn that \\u201cdemographics alone are not destiny,\\u201d in this piece for The New York Times.\\xa0
\\nSuzanne Gamboa reports from historically Democratic South Texas on the highly contested congressional races where Latina Republicans are leading, for NBC News.
\\n\\u201cAmerica\\u2019s political parties, and their candidates\\u2019 campaigns, often shoot themselves in the foot by thinking that Latino and Hispanic voters have very different priorities when compared to the average American voter,\\u201d writes Christian Paz in this analysis for Vox.
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Photo credit: AP Photo/Morry Gash
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