Latinos

Miya Ponsetto, the white woman dubbed as "SoHo Karen" on social media, was forcibly arrested in California yesterday. Her arrest comes after she racially profiled and assaulted 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr., son of Grammy award-winning jazz musician Keyon Harrold, in a New York City hotel lobby on December 26. According to a spokesperson for the Ventura County Sheriff, who worked in conjunction with the New York City Police Department, Ponsetto was confronted at a traffic stop and pulled from her vehicle when she refused to get out.

Even before polls opened Tuesday for the Senate runoffs in Georgia, Latinos had shattered their best turnout numbers for previous runoff elections.

But with control of the Senate at stake in the tight races, groups focused on Hispanic voters worked at full speed to get more people to the polls on Tuesday.

In a move that infuriated supporters of museums to be dedicated to Latinos and women on the National Mall, Republican Sen. Mike Lee of Utah blocked legislation Thursday that would lead to the creation of both.

"The last thing we need," Lee said, "is to further divide an already divided nation with an array of segregated, separate-but-equal museums for hyphenated identity groups."

President Trump lost the election but surprised many by making new Republican inroads with Black and Latino voters. Whether or not the gain can be maintained, it's a reminder that no demographic constituency is monolithic.

As he slings a backpack stuffed with his kitchen knives over his shoulder, Japour Walker sets out from his modest Florida ranch in one of Jacksonville’s Black working-class neighborhoods.

One of the big surprises of the 2020 election was how even though most Latino voters across the US voted for Joe Biden, in some counties of competitive states like Florida and Texas, a higher-than-expected percentage of Latinos supported Donald Trump. One factor that many believe played a role: online misinformation about the Democratic candidate.

Even if Joe Biden can pull off a narrow victory over Donald Trump in the presidential race, the 2020 election is still likely to be considered a disappointment for Democrats. The party’s ambitions to take control of the Senate, expand their majority in the house of Representatives and flip state legislatures appear to have been dashed. A significant reason for Democrats’ disappointment — or Republican successes, depending on your point of view — was the GOP’s improved performance with Latino voters in key swing states.

Democrats' long-term hopes for electoral success have long cited the growing Latino population in the country. But former Vice President Joe Biden's performance in heavily Latino areas of key states has concerned members of his party — and may have cost him Electoral College votes, according to groups and activists working to mobilize Latino voters.

Nationally, Biden appears to have gotten support from roughly twice as many Latino voters as President Trump, but that support looked very different depending on where you looked in three key states with large Latino populations.

Latino voters, who lean Democratic overall, could be a decisive force in key battleground states this cycle. Florida’s Latino community includes right-leaning Cubans and dozens of other subgroups – none politically monolithic.

The colorful party bus winds its way through residential Miami, Colombian and American flags flying, salsa and Latin pop blaring. A caravan of cars follows, “Vota Biden” scrawled on each in large white letters.

Misinformation and conspiracy theories swirling around the 2020 presidential race are reaching an "alarming" number of Latino voters in Florida through Spanish language social media sites, advocacy groups and elected officials said.

The experts voiced concern that the barrage of misleading messages about presidential candidate Joe Biden and the coronavirus, often containing right-wing conspiracy theories, could swing the state vote.

For Latino voters across the country, the issue of lax border policy versus Trump’s hawkish stance on illegal immigration isn’t settled. Rather, it is possible that the rise of the Latino Republican will defy the conventional wisdom of many GOP strategists and pundits: that restrictionist border policy, or anything deviating from the status quo before Trump — what amounts to de facto open borders — could alienate Latino voters.