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Democrats and progressives see more Latino young voters mobilizing for Harris

Democrats and progressives see more Latino young voters mobilizing for Harris

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Among the 4,700 party delegates attending the Democratic National Convention, many were young people attending their first major political gathering. Some of them told Noticias Telemundo that they were more politically motivated after Vice President Kamala Harris entered the presidential campaign following President Joe Biden’s decision to drop out. “Kamala Harris is really a symbol for us. She is the American dream,” said Carolyn Salvador Avila, national chair of the College Democrats of America. At 20, Salvador is Nevada’s youngest delegate. Her brother, Julian Salvador Avila, 16, can’t vote yet, but he’s helping out in other ways. “I would love to be able to vote, but the most I can do now is help Harris and Walz, educating people so they know what they can do for Latino people, young people, everyone.” Julian is president of the High School Democrats of America Spring Valley, Nevada. As many as 40 million Gen Zers (born from 1997 to 2012) are eligible to vote this year, 8 million more than in previous elections, according to the Center for Information …

Downey schools program creates journalism pipeline for Latino students

Downey schools program creates journalism pipeline for Latino students

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A few weeks into the school year, the editorial staff of the Downey Legend filter into Downey High School’s Room S26 and settle into their seats. Today is pitch day — students are expected to come to class prepared with a story idea to tackle in the coming weeks, if their fellow journalism students think it’s interesting and they get the approval of their co-editors in chief, Madeline Hidalgo and Ximena Solorzano. Both are seniors who are opinionated but kind, questioning but courteous. They have a knack for asking just the right questions to get to the heart of a story. And after serving on the newspaper staff for three years, they also have a keen sense of what reporting goes over well with the larger student body. They run a tight ship, and there’s little room in Hidalgo and Solorzano’s busy editorial schedule for lackluster reporting. Madeline Hildago, co-editor in chief of the Downey Legend, discusses story ideas during a pitch meeting in her newspaper class at Downey High School on March 27. (Jill …

Biden campaign launches M May ad buy focused on Black, Latino, Asian American voters

Biden campaign launches $14M May ad buy focused on Black, Latino, Asian American voters

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President Biden’s reelection campaign launched a $14 million ad campaign for May, which will focus on reaching Black, Latino and Asian American Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (AANHPI) voters. The investments will cover the states the Biden campaign considers essential to victory, including the Midwest’s “Blue Wall,” the Sunbelt and the Southwest. The ads will run during sports programming, during commercials for shows like ABC’s “Abbott Elementary” and on digital platforms. The campaign plans to have more than 500 staff and 200 offices in the states open by the end of May. It also plans to ramp up surrogate travel and outreach to small businesses during the month. In announcing the ad launch, the campaign bashed former President Trump’s campaign for its fundraising, which has been lagging the Biden campaign’s $192 million in cash on hand. “We have historic cash on hand that literally trumps our opponents,” communications director Michael Tyler told reporters, adding that the Trump team has “little time to catch up.” The campaign noted that Trump is “stuck in New York” or …

As Latino voters grow in Arizona, U.S. Senate candidates seek to win them over

As Latino voters grow in Arizona, U.S. Senate candidates seek to win them over

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Junior Lopez, owner of JL Boxing Academy in Phoenix, stands outside his business with his wife, Mayrelis Gomez, and their young son. Ben Giles hide caption toggle caption Ben Giles Junior Lopez, owner of JL Boxing Academy in Phoenix, stands outside his business with his wife, Mayrelis Gomez, and their young son. Ben Giles Latino voters made up roughly a quarter of Arizona voters who cast a ballot in 2020, according to NALEO Educational Fund, a nonprofit that works to increase Latino political participation. That’s a nearly 20% increase in their share from 2016 and a roughly 58% increase in the number of Latino Arizonans voting from 2016. But Junior Lopez, a boxing instructor in Phoenix, wasn’t one of them. He didn’t vote in the midterms either. So how did Lopez, a self-described political novice, end up hosting U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego, who is running for the U.S. Senate, at his gym on the border of Phoenix and Glendale, Arizona? Lopez said he had questions. “I kind of wanted to know, be informed a little …

Exclusive-Biden Campaign Rolls Out New Abortion Ads Aimed at Latino Men

Exclusive-Biden Campaign Rolls Out New Abortion Ads Aimed at Latino Men

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Joe Biden will ramp up spending this month as part of a new advertising push aimed partly at convincing Latino men that abortion rights are a vital issue that affects them, the U.S. president’s 2024 campaign said on Friday. A television, radio and digital advertisement airing in both English and Spanish in competitive “battleground” states features Cesar Carreon, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who now works as a Las Vegas carpenter, mentioning his daughters and attacking Trump as “not tough” for taking away women’s “freedom.” The campaign will spend more than $1 million in Hispanic media for May alone with more to come in the months ahead, it said. The plans for the ad campaign were not previously reported. Biden’s campaign seeks to press an early financial advantage over Republican Donald Trump to shore up flagging support among the president’s key voting blocs, including the Latino community that favored the Democrat by more than 30 points in 2020. As with other Americans, Latino voters tell pollsters they are especially concerned about the U.S. …

Turkish dramas have become popular with U.S. Latino audiences

Turkish dramas have become popular with U.S. Latino audiences

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Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature a guest writer. This week, we’ve asked De Los contributing columnist Alex Zaragoza to fill in. If you have not subscribed to our weekly newsletter, you can do so here. My mom was sitting in the comfy chair in my living room completely enraptured by her phone, clutching her chest and contorting her face into a look I can only compare to a tantalized duck in the midst of a yearn-induced tantrum. The volume was at full señora level, and I could hear a man and a woman speaking breathlessly to one another in a dubbed-sounding Spanish. My interest was fully piqued after she gasped and uttered “desgraciado” under her breath. “Qué estás viendo, ‘ama?” It turns out my mom, like many others over the last few years, has become fully obsessed with Turkish dramas known as dizi — she calls them her “novelas Turcas.” I posted a photo of this scenario on Instagram stories and was immediately hit with a bunch of DMs from people telling me their …

Georgia governor signs immigration bill months after UGA slaying, worrying Latino advocates

Georgia governor signs immigration bill months after UGA slaying, worrying Latino advocates

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Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp said the new immigration law he signed Wednesday in response to the slaying of Laken Riley would improve public safety, but opponents said it would erode trust between immigrant and Latino communities and law enforcement. Georgia HB1105 requires, among other things, sheriff’s offices to coordinate with federal officials on people in their custody who may be in the country unlawfully, or face losing funding if they don’t.  At the signing event, Kemp, a Republican, said the bill “became one of our top priorities following the senseless death of Laken Riley at the hands of someone in this country illegally who had already been arrested even after crossing the border,” The Associated Press reported. “If you enter our country illegally and proceed to commit further crime in our communities, we will not allow your crimes to go unanswered,” Kemp said. But advocates said they’ve already seen attempts to use local officers to enforce immigration law backfire. The February death of Riley, a 22-year-old nursing student, intensified the already heated election-year political storm …

Wealth gap between White and Latino families surpasses million

Wealth gap between White and Latino families surpasses $1 million

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The wealth gap between white families and their Black and Latino counterparts has widened by more than $1 million, according to a new analysis by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank that focuses on economic and social policy research. In 2022, the average wealth of white families was approximately $1.36 million; for Latino families, it was $227,544, and for Black families, $211,596. For Asian American households, the average was $1.8 million. The data come from the 2022 Survey of Consumer Finances, conducted every three years by the Federal Reserve. “Wealth translates into opportunity. It translates into mobility. [Wealth] enables people to reach their full potential,” said Signe-Mary McKernan, vice president for labor, human services and population at the Urban Institute. The analysis points to structural racism as a contributing factor to the widening wealth gap, singling out exclusionary homeownership policies such as redlining and racial covenants that have largely affected Black and Latino Americans. “Wealth inequities lie in the policies, programs and practices which created pathways to building wealth for white families while creating …

Growing Latino electorate in US could potentially swing upcoming presidential polls

Growing Latino electorate in US could potentially swing upcoming presidential polls

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Experts said Latino voters are a growing, diverse and increasingly prominent demographic in US politics, with the power to potentially swing this election for either candidate. “It’s not just the fact that Hispanics are a growing population, but they are … in a lot of really key battleground states that are essentially going to be huge in deciding who wins this election,” said political science professor Gabriel Sanchez from the University of New Mexico. Nowhere in the US will this play out more prominently than in New Mexico, where over half the population is Hispanic and has elected three Hispanic governors in a row. LATINOS IN NEW MEXICO New Mexico has the highest proportion of Latinos across all US states. With just over a month to go before the state holds presidential primaries, millions of dollars are being pumped into election campaigns. Lea County in southeast New Mexico, for instance, is around 60 per cent Hispanic, and turning out the vote in areas like this could be a political goldmine. “In Lea County, we have …

Trump Promised Big Plans to Flip Black and Latino Voters. Many Republicans Are Waiting to See Them

Trump Promised Big Plans to Flip Black and Latino Voters. Many Republicans Are Waiting to See Them

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NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump says he wants to hold a major campaign event at New York’s Madison Square Garden featuring Black hip-hop artists and athletes. Aides speak of Trump making appearances in Chicago, Detroit and Atlanta with leaders of color and realigning American politics by flipping Democratic constituencies. But five months before the first general election votes are cast, the former president’s campaign has little apparent organization to show for its ambitious plans. His campaign removed its point person for coalitions and has not announced a replacement. The Republican Party’s minority outreach offices across the country have been shuttered and replaced by businesses that include a check-cashing store, an ice cream shop and a sex-toy store. Campaign officials acknowledge they are weeks away from rolling out any targeted programs. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee has struggled to navigate a messy transition into the November election, plagued by staffing issues, personal legal troubles and the “Make America Great Again” movement’s disdain for “ identity politics.” There are signs of frustration on the ground, where …