Election 2020

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrat Joe Biden was pushing closer to the 270 Electoral College votes needed to carry the White House, securing victories in the “blue wall” battlegrounds of Wisconsin and Michigan and narrowing President Donald Trump’s path.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The fate of the United States presidency hung in the balance Wednesday morning, as President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden battled for three familiar battleground states —Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania— that could prove crucial in determining who wins the White House.

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Voters across Puerto Rico on Tuesday are choosing new leaders they hope can help heal a U.S. territory wracked by corruption, hurricanes, earthquakes and the coronavirus pandemic.

“Like the population overall, Latinos are turning out to vote early in record numbers,” said NALEO Educational Fund CEO Arturo Vargas.

The latest 69%-26% breakdown favoring Biden is similar to 2016 exit polling that showed Hillary Clinton with 66 percent of support to Trump’s 28 percent. In 2012, Barack Obama gained 71 percent of the Latino vote to Mitt Romney’s 27 percent.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump and Democratic challenger Joe Biden each has a path to win the White House.

The biggest race is the gubernatorial one, with six total candidates running (five with parties and one running independently).

Navigating arduous voter registration laws in a state like North Carolina is a complicated matrix for first-time voters, and first-time vote-by-mail voters.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Candidates from five parties are vying Tuesday to become Puerto Rico’s next governor, facing voters in the U.S. territory weary of corruption and seeking relief from an onslaught of hurricanes, earthquakes and the coronavirus that has deepened a decade-long economic crisis.

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The poll also noted that Biden had a 71% to 19% lead among Latina voters, but only a 51% to 42% advantage among with Latino male voters, according to Telemundo.

In my own politically divided familia, Trump support is far less about religious, fiscal or socially conservative values and much more about how we interface and interact with racist white people. 

We sit down with Cadava and with longtime Latino Republicans to explore the history of Latinos in the Republican Party, and talk about what President Trump might mean for their future.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texans have already cast more ballots in the presidential election than they did during all of 2016, an unprecedented surge of early voting in a state that was once the country’s most reliably Republican, but may now be drifting toward battleground status.

The analysis noted that Latino candidates are running for top offices in 36 states, including in parts of the country that are experiencing emerging Latino communities.

Historically speaking, the cruelty surrounding U.S. immigration policy is arguably the most bipartisan issue of our times.

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With just five days before Election Day, new polls of Latino voters released by both Univision and Telemundo are sharing insights into an eligible voting bloc that is estimated to be at 32 million.

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