As both the Democratic and Republican races remain in flux, so does the American electorate itself. The Pew Research Center noted that white Americans, as a demographic, are the slowest-growing segment of the electorate, while Latinos and Asian-Americans are the fastest growing.
Univision is sponsoring a drive to register 3 million Latinos. Voter participation by Latinos lags considerably behind black and white registration and voting rates. But there are signs that Latinos are heeding the call to become naturalized citizens so they can vote against Trump. In this debate, both candidates were already asked if Trump was a racist. Sanders also compared exploitation in guest worker programs often used by Latinos to slavery… which may be seen as a flawed analogy by some listeners.
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Sanders really did vote in 2006 for a House amendment to protect the Minutemen, a militia of private civilians that tried to block undocumented immigrants from entering the country, BuzzFeed News reported in December.
Carl Bialik
One of the debate sponsors — Spanish-language broadcaster Univision — is based in Miami, where the debate is taking place, and the focus it is bringing on immigration makes sense ahead of next Tuesday’s primary in Florida. In a Univision-Washington Post poll of likely voters in Florida’s Democratic primary conducted last week, 3 percent of respondents were Cuban and 12 percent more were Hispanics of non-Cuban origin. And 4 percent of respondents preferred to be interviewed in Spanish.
