There isn’t any Spanish phrase for “swing state.”
However there are a lot of Latinos residing and voting within the seven battlegrounds that can decide the result of race for the White Home between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Trump. So Spanish-language community Telemundo got here up with a time period: “El Péndulo.”
“El Péndulo,” or the pendulum, grew to become the title of Telemundo’s podcast inspecting the voting bloc and shall be used incessantly Tuesday when Noticias Telemundo anchor Julio Vaqueiro leads the community’s “Decisión 2024” protection alongside Arantxa Loizaga. (The published may also be streamed on the community’s free streaming channel, Noticias Telemundo Ahora.)
Vaqueiro has led the NBCUniversal-owned community’s nightly newscast since 2021. A local of San Juan del Rio, Querétaro, Mexico, he has been with the community since 2011 and was a favourite of Los Angeles viewers when he anchored native morning and night information packages on Telemundo 52.
Vaqueiro, 37, shared his insights on protecting the Latino vote in a telephone dialog from the community’s Miami studio.
Noticias Telemundo anchor Julio Vaqueiro on Telemondo’s election evening set in Miama.
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What are we studying about Latino voters on this presidential cycle that the English-speaking media had been lacking?
Persons are starting to grasp how essential they’re by way of numbers. Greater than 36 million Latinos are eligible to vote this election cycle. Each campaigns find out about their significance. However there’s nonetheless rather a lot to essentially find out about Latino voters — how advanced they’re, how various they’re and what number of points are essential for them.
Latino voters are a dynamic group that’s been altering. It’s the fastest-growing group, it’s the second-largest group of voting-age Individuals, and a whole lot of them are younger voters who’re nonetheless undecided and are up for grabs. And typically we nonetheless speak concerning the “Latino vote” as an enormous bloc of voters. The reality is that they vote in another way in the event that they dwell in Florida, if they arrive from Cuba or Venezuela, or if they arrive from Puerto Rico, or in the event that they dwell in California and so they come from Mexico and Central America.
What are these regional variations?
We are able to say basically that we see a pattern during which Mexican Individuals, Puerto Ricans, Central Individuals are typically extra Democratic. They have an inclination to dwell within the southwestern a part of the nation. After which in Florida, we see a Cuban American inhabitants that tends to be extra Republican. In central Florida, we’ve got a Puerto Rican neighborhood that may be extra Democratic. However then the swing states, which actually matter this time round — Arizona, Nevada, Pennsylvania — we see communities that may be very divided.
As an example, we used to consider Latinos in Pennsylvania as Puerto Ricans residing in Philadelphia and within the suburbs of that metropolis. And there’s this entire inhabitants that obtained to an space known as the “Latino Belt,” in locations like Allentown or Hazleton with a big Dominican Republic inhabitants and Mexican inhabitants, and the place you see the vote may be very divided.
A part of it has to do with the origins of those voters, the international locations the place they arrive from, and their private tales of migration and the tales of migration inside their households. However the points they care about are similar to the problems that an American cares about: the economic system, the price of residing, inflation.
What was the viewer response to that joke that comic Tony Hinchcliffe made about Puerto Rico at Trump’s Madison Sq. Backyard rally?
Persons are saying they’re outraged and disgusted by the joke. And high-profile Puerto Ricans are reacting to this — Unhealthy Bunny, Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez — and all of them signaling their assist to the Democratic candidate. That may be crucial if you consider the quantity of followers they’ve on social media, greater than 300 million all collectively.
So this might have an effect?
Effectively, I feel it may. In a state like Pennsylvania, it might actually make a distinction. If you consider the margins by which President Biden gained the state in 2020 — solely 80,000 votes — and there are greater than a half-million Puerto Ricans residing in Pennsylvania.
Trump has been polling higher amongst Latinos than any latest Republican presidential candidate. Does he have any kind of traits that enchantment to Latino voters?
A very powerful factor to contemplate is how these voters will be open to totally different choices. Now, the difficulty they largely care about is the economic system, the price of residing, inflation. So a lot of them supporting the choice to the federal government that they’ve had for the previous 4 years comes from financial issues. Former President Trump does enchantment to some Latino males particularly, as a result of in Latin America we do have that caudillo picture or caudillo determine of a robust man in authorities. We’ve a few examples there: Nayib Bukele, Nicolás Maduro and Fidel Castro. And a few voters may really feel drawn to that masculinity.
Is a girl president a tougher promote for Latino males? Or does what we’ve just lately seen in Mexico the place Claudia Sheinbaum was elected present that it’s not?
We truly even have a lot of examples in Latin America of girls presidents. You simply talked about Mexico, as an illustration. So undoubtedly no.
Harris did a 20-minute sit-down interview with you. Trump didn’t. (Trump did seem in a city corridor that aired on Univison). Did his marketing campaign say why?
No. We’ve actually tried. We’ve despatched emails, letters, we’ve had conferences with them. They simply haven’t agreed to an interview.
In your speak with Harris, you identified how neither candidate has actually talked rather a lot a couple of path to citizenship for migrants. A lot of the immigration dialogue has centered on border safety. Is that one thing you’re listening to from viewers?
I feel most Latino voters agree with each issues: immigration reform and a pathway to citizenship, and likewise a safer border. But it surely’s true, we’ve seen this shift within the Democratic Get together, the place we’re primarily speaking about border safety. And we’ve got no particulars about easy methods to get an immigration reform or an immigration aid for immigrants.