A Votar: A Look at Latino Voters in the 2020 U.S. Election
There’s a record number of registered Latino voters this year, and with weeks to go before the election, both parties are trying to engage with this huge and diverse group. As part of a special election series, The Takeaway will zoom into a variety of issues affecting Latinos in the U.S. and what both the Trump and Biden campaigns are doing — and need to do — to engage and persuade voters with the clock ticking down. We’ll do a national callout for voters, and we’ll hear from them regularly through Election Day.
The percentage of Latino voters who supported President-elect Joe Biden in 2020 was roughly the same as the percentage who backed Hillary Clinton in 2016.
As the next part of our series, "A Votar," The Takeaway delves into the long legal and cultural struggle for Latino voting rights in the United States.
A majority of Cuban Americans in Florida backed President Trump in 2016, and recent polling suggests that their support for the president has increased in 2020.