'Miscalculation': Biden Campaign Scrambling After Realizing Latino Vote Headed To Trump

Written By BlabberBuzz | Monday, 02 November 2020 11:00 PM
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'Miscalculation': Biden Campaign Scrambling After Realizing Latino Vote Headed To Trump

Every 30 seconds, a Latino turns 18 and becomes eligible to vote — and that's a huge reason why this year, for the first time, Latinos are projected to become the largest nonwhite voting demographic.

And yet, for decades, pundits and politicians alike have predicted that Latinos will have a huge impact on elections

Some Democratic operatives are worried about what they say is the party's lack of outreach to Latino voters that could determine decisively in key states.

Michael Trujillo, a veteran Democratic operative, blamed his party’s choice to knock on doors only in October due to the pandemic, saying "I think the data and the evidence was there that they needed more engagement at the door."

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Other activists have brought up the fact that Democrats pushed to vote by mail throughout the campaign, due to the pandemic, and only revised their message to voters in the past few days by forcing them to instead vote in person or hand-deliver their ballots.

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"A lot of folks are nervous that mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania are coming in under where they hope to be," Trujillo said. "And there's like a crossing your fingers sort of a fact that a lot of them just start at the post office and haven't been processed yet, but they're in the system."

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Another operative in Florida, Melba Pearson suggested that compared with the Florida primary in mid-March, she's seen a lot less attempt in getting voters mobilized.

Though Jennifer Molina, Latino Media Director for the Biden campaign, showed a different view, saying that "we are aggressively ramping up our visibility and increasing voter contact across all of our battleground states to turn out Latino voters... [and are] confident our historic investments of tens of millions of dollars will mobilize the community."

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Steve Simeonidis suggested that the Miami-Dade Democratic Party of which he is chairman "is engaged in the most robust canvass and turnout operation we have ever done. This weekend alone, we have over 200 canvassers knocking on doors."

Latinos became more politically active after the World War II years; many Latinos served in World War II, and that gave them expectations about how they should be involved in all perspectives of American society: socially, economically and politically. Many more Latinos went to college, bought homes, and further began to vote and become politically active.

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And the parties really began reaching out to Latinos after World War II, because the Latino community started to grow in areas like Texas, California, Arizona and Florida, which were getting more and more electorally significant. That's also the moment when Latinos themselves become more politically active as part of their drive for civil rights.

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