👋! Latina reporter here. I have a thread about how we gave our readers a more nuanced understanding of the vote in Florida. For inquiring minds. 1/x
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“Despite a late push to court Latino voters over the last several weeks, Joe Biden is ending his presidential bid on shaky and perhaps perilous ground with this diverse, essential segment of the electorate...” 2/x
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“Biden, in turn, faces an increasingly urgent need to build up his margins with Latinos, a diverse demographic in Florida that he has struggled to broadly galvanize so far.” 3/x
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“In a trend that went largely unnoticed by Democrats until lately, more recent Cuban immigrants who previously displayed little engagement in American politics have started to identify as Trump Republicans.” 4/x
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“By repeating the racist tropes on the radio, Ms. Moncada spread it beyond her 45,000 Twitter followers and into South Florida’s mainstream broadcast media, a worrying circle of misinformation targeting Latino voters in the biggest battleground state.” 5/x
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“Across the state in Miami, though, it’s Mr. Biden’s apparent slippage with Hispanics that’s garnering the most attention and has Democrats wringing their hands.” 6/x
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“The appearance by Ms. Harris, the Democrats’ vice-presidential nominee, signaled an acknowledgment by the Democratic ticket that it has been slipping among Hispanic voters in Florida.” 7/x
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“For every expanding demographic force (Puerto Ricans in the Orlando area for Democrats), there is another force to match or surpass it (Midwestern retirees on the Gulf Coast for Republicans).” 8/x
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“President Trump is pushing Mr. Maduro to step aside, and if he succeeds, Democrats fear it could transform Venezuelan-Americans into loyal Republicans, much like Cuban-Americans.” 9/x
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“Democrats will lose again in 2020 if they don’t move swiftly to win over Hispanics, the pollster, Eduardo Gamarra, told the group. “You just need to start now,” he said.” 10/x
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“Deploying the strategy in South Florida, a community shaped by Cubans who fled after the 1959 revolution, has higher stakes. It represents the core of Florida Republicans’ push to keep non-Cuban Hispanic voters from decamping to the Democratic Party” 11/x
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“What may be Mr. Nelson’s most serious shortfall in the race so far is his failure to keep up with Mr. Scott in campaigning to a key demographic group: the state’s Latinos who tend to vote less Democratic in Florida than elsewhere in the country.” 12/x
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“Though Puerto Ricans tend to lean left, many have also registered as Florida voters without party affiliation, giving Republicans an opening to make a play for their support. If they are successful, they could grow their Hispanic conservative base.” 13/x
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Would’ve filed this thread earlier but...was filing another nuanced story about Florida Latinos. /end
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