Stephen Nuño-Perez, Senior Analyst, wrote a piece for NBCNews on Latino mobilization following the Nevada caucus:
For decades, pundits have referred to the rapidly growing Latino population as a sleeping giant that has overpromised and underperformed when it comes to electoral benefits for Democrats.
In 2016, after a year of rhetorical attacks by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump against Latinos and immigrants, the conventional wisdom was that Latinos would respond with record turnout. Trump instead won a shocking victory, leading one CNN analysis to conclude that “Latino and younger voters failed to show up at the polls in sufficient numbers” to give Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton the White House. Click here to read the rest.
