With Sanders out, can Biden win the Latino vote?

On Wednesday, Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders announced that he is ending his presidential campaign, all but ensuring that former Vice President Joe Biden will face President Donald Trump in November.  

Sergio Garcia-Rios, professor of government and Latino studies at Cornell University, is an expert on Latino voter participation, preferences and polling. He is leading a Univision project to measure Latino voter preferences throughout the 2020 election cycle. 

Bio: https://government.cornell.edu/sergio-i-garcia-rios

Garcia-Rios says:

“Healthcare continues to be the main concern of Latino voters and Biden hasn’t been clear enough about what he wants to do. Latino voters are still not satisfied with Biden’s vague support of Obamacare as the solution and find Sanders’ Medicare for All plan much more appealing.

“To attract Latino voters, Biden will also have to be really clear about what he wants to do about other issues that matter to them. Sanders set out a plan for what he would accomplish in his first 100 days in office, including comprehensive immigration reform and addressing DACA. Sanders got criticism for proposing a moratorium on deportations and an end to raids by ICE, but Latinos really connected with these proposals. All Biden has said is that immigration reform would ‘have to be discussed.’ 

“Biden will also have to address mistakes he has made in the past regarding immigrants. He acknowledged deportations were a mistake recently for the first time on a Facebook Live event with Jorge Ramos, but he will have to address this in a much more prominent way to satisfy Latino voters.”

 

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