For about the last 10 years, he's usually voted for Democrats in presidential elections. He says that if he saw the right candidate, he would certainly vote for a Republican again. What really stops him, he says, is what he describes as a racial climate. And it basically makes him wonder if there's any space for him in the Republican Party.
Latino voters have never seemed more electorally important than in the coming midterm elections: the first real referendum on the Biden era of government.
Latinos make up 20 percent of registered voters in two crucial Senate races — Arizona and Nevada — and as much or more in over a dozen competitive House races.
In the past 10 years, the conventional wisdom about Latino voters has been uprooted. We explore a poll, conducted by The Times, to better understand how they view the parties vying for their vote.
Guest: Jennifer Medina, a national politics reporter for The New York Times.
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