The Latino voter has been misunderstood, says CNN's Ana Navarrette. A new poll shows that while the majority of Latinos still vote for Democrats, a large group of Latino voters are definitely up for grabs in this year's midterms. The key will be to see whether candidates and parties do really tailor their messages to these voters,. And whichever party successfully does that will be rewarded this year and presumably for a long time to come.
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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