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