“Latino voters have already proven to be a game-changing force. And we need to finish the job.”
this year. This diverse political force, routinely overlooked by parties and pundits, will be crucial to Democratic chances up and down the ballot come November, particularly in battleground states like Arizona, Florida, and Pennsylvania. dropped out of the race in early April
. In Iowa, a predominantly white state that has seen its Latinx population more than double in the past decade, the electorate helped Sanders reach a near tie for first place with former South Bend, IN, Mayor Pete Buttigieg. “It didn’t matter that Bernie was an old white man, what mattered was that he was speaking to their issues and that’s why they showed up for him,” Neidi Dominguez, who served as the Sanders campaign’s deputy director of states, told Refinery29.
Many believe the Democratic Party’s decades-long neglect of Latinx voters is largely to blame for the demographic’s pattern of low voter turnout. As Chuck Rocha, the architect of the Sanders campaign’s Latinx strategy, often says, candidates and campaigns have always treated Latinx people as an afterthought.
In addition to winning Ocasio-Cortez’s coveted endorsement, Sanders was backed by major groups like Make the Road Action and Mijente, which had never endorsed a presidential candidate before. Since Sanders' exit from the race, most Latinx groups have coalesced behind Biden, including Voto Latino."This is our first presidential endorsement in our history,” the nonprofit group said
"They haven’t tried to contact me through any method of communication. You get this feeling that they felt they could leave that up to Bernie Sanders, and then Biden would be the Democratic nominee and our votes would stay within the party with Biden. I know myself, like many of my friends, are writing Bernie in."conducted by Latino Decisions, a Democratic firm, also suggests that Biden’s Latinx support has been eroding during the coronavirus pandemic.
Jose Menjivar, a mathematics professor at a Los Angeles County community college, said he supported Sanders in California’s primary because the senator can “really identify with working people.” And despite his issues with many of, Menjivar said, he will be voting for the presumptive nominee in the general election.
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