2020 president ial election and the latino vote. No question that 2020 will be a year of intersecting crises in the midst of a pandemic and the most consequential election in a lifetime. More americans voted in the 2020 election than any other in modern history with 65 of eligible voters casting a valid and for the first time in our countrys history latinos were the largest ethnic minority in the electorate with 32 million eligible voters for record numbers of latinos turning out the vote, highest numbers of latino and latino youth in the previous election cycle. Donald trump and president elect joe biden benefited from higher turnout of latino voters across the us yet the support they received from this diverse and complex electorate buried in different parts of the country. The majority of latinos lean democratic when it comes to faith levels there are differences that cannot be so easily counted on by either party. Todays conversation will highlight have record levels of latino turnout impacted the outcome of key races and included key battleground states. We are thrilled and acclaimed journalists interested voice in the Latino Community will moderate todays panel, they will explore critical nuances among latino voters, the issues we care most about and which Campaign Messages resonated with these constituencies and why. As we transition to a new administration and her new year it is important to focus on Lessons Learned and to know that our vote cannot be taken for granted. It requires authentic connection and investment and we want to be forwardlooking and included in this national agenda. I want to give special thanks to ucla and the Aspen Institute and the Cocacola Company and wells fargo for making this possible. My pleasure to introduce dear friend of one of todays sponsors, the seor Vice President of external relations at wells fargo. Before joining wells fargo in 2019, president and ceo of n diego chamber of commerce focusing on training and electing latino candidates for public office, as Deputy Assistant to the president and director of White House Intergovernmental Affairs for george w. Bush. Please give a warm welcome to ruben more alice. Thank you so much f having us here. Proud that wells fargo could be sponsor, looking forward to the in formation a as former latino elected official self, great pride to see more latinos and latinas being elected to office which is part of a growing latino population that is increing. We hear from our professionals in terms of what is happening with the lato vote. Wells fargo is a leaning lender to hispanic families, home mortgages, small busesses, latino economic power is tied to political power ilatino communities, we are interested in what is happening and be part of helping the Latino Community as it grows and reaches its fu tear in the United States of america. I congratulate you and your new role as theatino in Society Program and recognize the others who are helping out in that efforts as well and it is a plsure for me on behalf of wells fargo to interview our moderator this afternoon, the moderator is recognized by the New York Times as the voice of hispanic america and you will probably recognize her. Shis a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. My pleasure to introduce maria. Thank you. Hello to everyone. Good afternoon. If you are joining us in the west coast, thank you for joining us for this vital discussion as we assess the impact of the latino vote in the 2020 election. I asked the ceo a story that i did on the latino vote right before the election, if he thought the sleeping in science would finally wake up and he answered bluntly i hate the reference of the sleeping giant, they havent been sleeping, what latinos want to be engaged in the process that ignores, i wont be asking that question again but for anyone who Still Believes in that reference latinos in 2020 showed up and made a difference. How they voted and why is a subject we continue to analyze for the coming months. Some facts, facts, joe biden, Kamala Harris as Vice President elect, more americans voted in 2020 elections and in any other election in more than 100 years. Fact. 2020 saw the highest voter turnout for latinos in history. Another factor. Latino voters made a difference in the outcome of the election in several states. Facts. Latinos are not monolithic. And fact. Donald trump made inroads with latino voters in his bid to win the election. Let me introduce our distinct analysts. The chairman of the Democratic National committee, the first latino to hold that position, and the secretary under obama. Joining us, the Lincoln Project, former political director for the California Republican party, the republican political strategist for the latino voting sensor and analysis. The political campaign, professor of political, cofounder of the latino position. For idaho, 30 of the voting district in washington, native american, i want to remind those who are joining in this conversation, the last few minutes. The first one. Free time they need to know the natives numbers after an election, how many came out to vote in 2020. It is great to be with everyone today. The coverage you mentioned on cbs, such a strong the latino electorate. The data has not been certified and publicly recorded in every single state. In many states it has been or many counties it hasnt been. The first headline we take from this election is one of the facts, i looked at some historic data. In 2004, not long ago, 7. 5 million latino votes, estimating 16 million, 16 million, doubled the latino vote in less than 20 years. Cannot be said for the overall american electorate, this was a big turnout. The latino vote overdoubled, the trajectory is going to continue. Our population is very young, it is growing. And and and and and many as 10 million, the turnout was really historic. That is one of the most important of this election, that very high number of latino votes. This question for all of you. Did anything this election surprise you . I was especially, in arizona involving in this litigation, leading the civil rights division. When you look at what happened in arizona in 2020, dramatic increase in latino voter turnout, 660,000 latinos turned out in arizona in 2020, 460,000 in 2016 and remember joe biden won by 12,000 votes in arizona. When i look at battleground states you really see so many battleground states make a difference. Roughly 100,000 voted and won 71 so estate where we won 20,000 votes, what was heartening to me, in 2016 we were regularly polling in three battleground states, doing a ton of work in ten states reflecting the fact that the denominator experience, in january, latinos, or illegible voters in georgia looking at margins of dictators moving up that is the important thing. The percentage of vote, a bigger denominator needs a bigger margin. The one to punish. Places like miamidade county, as much as we like to. Having said that, reading reports that we lost florida that latino voters in miamidade county, in 2012, barack obama, still would have lost the state by 450,000 votes, totally unrelated to us. Orlando and the puerto rican vote, doing work in miamidade. This is election a ball. The audio is difficult. The question remains the same. The surprises are twofold in the past 25 or 30 year trajectory. You cant deny that. Donald trump had stronger numbers than anybody anticipated and we have to recognize what is happening in the community. For a host of reasons. Most importantly, theres regional variation. And on the field prospective the trend line is different in arizona and california largely because of the process we are talking about, very strong markers in places like california and arizona, essentially a block of voters, 27 standard for gop report in texas. Florida is a unique dynamic. It is not an apples to apples comparison. Part of the fun of this is new States Latino votes are taking. And in many ways, similar patterns watch the vote mature, second or third generation, completely unique way to watch america change and changing the contour of culture. We are not monolithic. Until recent election cycle, and this is not your grandfathers voting block. For the Political Landscape years ago. What is your take . May be it is pricing. A privilege to be here with all of you. In idaho we expected at least on a personal note the hope and expectation for a blue wave and when that happened in the past a district like mine, in 2018 Medicaid Expansion past by 60 , 16 out of 19 counties voted in support of it. When it comes to Kitchen Table issues that resonates with people. It is what the Democratic Party is all about. In Rural America and suburban america where hispanic communities are at the forefront of growth, the largest population helping grow Rural Communities we are seeing a lot of struggles when it comes to the Democratic Partys message connecting with people that was a surprise. We had progress. A hispanic Higher Education institution, college of western idaho board of directors changeover, and that is progress, some messaging, and having young latino, his dad too, no more about the campaign and when they learned there is a democrat why are you pushing to give anything away for free i had to explain that is not where we are coming from. We are painted with a broad brush doesnt represent what we are about. To most of america, what we already know. And also diverse city, more geographical and it varies depending on country of origin, a latino in florida is not interested in the same issue, the same thing goes. The same messaging with that diverse city. They are directly on point, in 2016, didnt have the capacity, in florida, and in 2016 by hillary clinton, in puerto rico, we didnt have that capacity. Now we do because i understood it is indispensable. Conversations with puerto rican voters in florida were very different in many respects to conversations we had to cubanAmerican Voters. When we were sending mail to voters we understood there were some overlap, the pandemic savaged everyone across the country, there are specific issues, Latino Community, one of the things we did very differently in the 2020 cycle we had those conversations somebody mentioned texas. What is interesting about texas when you dig into the data, we did remarkably well with latino voters in urban areas, off the charts, really good numbers. In the Rio Grande Valley a different story where we didnt do as well. When we talk about this, even in the same ethnicity sometimes the rural urban side is another dimension we need to understand moving forward. Those are two examples of doing things differently and that helps to connect with voters but we still know, somebody in this conversation, it is a big issue especially in south florida. The misinformation infrastructure was very very robust and it didnt just start in 2018. It started in 2020. It has been around for many years and it is a formidable infrastructure to address. I know that you are the number side, the Biden Campaign, what numbers, what issues, what did you find, what were they and the campaign, to address the issues that concern voters in these different locations . Building on what tom just laid out it is important to try to understand the Latino Community, the electorate. We are all latino and we have things in common but we also have diversity in our politics and that is okay and i think for a long time for the better part of the 21stcentury campaigns have really had to microtarget and understand different segments, suburban women, noncollegeeducated men, young hipster portland types. Whatever it is they have been segmenting the white community. On the Biden Campaign, very large samplings and Community Driven research and outreach. It doesnt mean we dont have opportunities to grow and to do better but we turned the corner in understanding is that, having large samples to segment young usborn firsttime voters as compared to third or fourth generation latinos in arizona, mexicanamericans who had been there for 100 years or longer. We took that approach this year. We need to keep doing that, need to keep understanding those differences within the Latino Community so that we can more effectively communicate with someone who is third or fourth generation and has a different sort of view than one whose family has only been here 25 years and that is it. I want to encourage everyone to keep that up and when you do that you will understand there is commonality even between cubans, venezuelans, Puerto Ricans and mexicans. Our politics are unique. Our politics at the end of the day, your Opening Statement i can almost hear those exact words. Latinos want to be engaged as latinos but also as americans and when you do that you will make inroads so i think the Biden Campaign is on the right track and will continue going in that direction but there are other groups like the group that was targeting latinos that maybe consider themselves a little bit more centrist or conservative and we need to continue those outreach efforts from both parties and talk to those folks and understand what makes them tick and how to make them feel engaged. I want to ask about the Lincoln Project and followup with the messaging. In some parts of texas there are some inroads donald trump made, there were inroads. I know you were not supporting donald trump about what was it about his campaign, his message, his persona that resonated with voters . That is a great question and it is a good segue, articulated it very well, leading the forefront on segmenting the latino vote in a way that had never been looked at before. That is very important, when talking about sampling with key demographics, there are variations but what is driving that politicization has to be done going forward. It is no longer something you might have the luxury of a campaign in the past. Being so diverse, the segmentation is very important which technically what we identify as a trumpy sort of vote tends to be usborn hispanic largely 40 and under usborn hispanic male under 40. The reason we call them trumpy is they are responding to a lot of the same messaging white noncollegeeducated males were responding to. It is a fascinating look. Latinos i like we will have none of this nonsense but the good news is they were is what we call stick. We can move them back with some messaging, more cultural message but there was some economic messaging but for whatever reason was compelling them to vote on issues that were not dissimilar from noncollege voters because of the deplorable trump base. You could say should we be surprised by that . Usborn hispanic males with a college debris with the same economic concerns, consuming the same media, behaving the same way. The other is a strong economic appeal, very important part. I would suggest Donald Trumps economic message, something that was compelling about it. The other question, how much of the cultural indicators to drive quite successfully. Is there a limit to that, do we need to expand not just looking at the vote model but talking about issues strongly associated with latino politicization but broadened to this economic messaging that ultimately the definitive element of latino politicization, succinctly, i believe the Majority Party in the next 20 years will be the one that captures the economic aspirations of a multicultural middleclass. The Republican Party has a significant problem with that because they are not interested in multicultural anything. The Democratic Party needs to refine its economic messages. They are way ahead of where the republicans are but there is only so much leakage you could prevent. It will diverse if i diversify. Democrats with 2 or 3 points but but it is growing so fast you are not losing anything. More appropriate way to look at it is republicans are losing the second largest segment of the electorate by 25, 70, 30 and that is the deathknell. The Lincoln Project, describe and explain what the objective was for those who still dont know . The Lincoln Project was a group of eight republican, former Political Consultants recognize a year ago this month the republican establishment failed the country protecting the constitution of the United States, so complicit, such a cult of personality behind a demagogue, rise of authoritarianism in the country so we decided to do what we do best which is run the campaign, this started as you are aware before the impeachment began, before every republican us senator holding up the constitutional oath to protect the country to see evidence of malfeasance, the objective was to bring the best talent to make sure donald trump would be to the democratic nominee whoever that was an honor to be part of the coalition of a successful effort. You oppose donald trump but not necessarily republican candidate. We are opposed to most of the Senate Candidates, the only candidates we would support above based on constitutional principles we view the Republican Party as a threat to the american experiment. We view the Republican Party as a threat to the underpinnings of democracy and believe all those republican senators were complicit in undermining the foundation of our government. To the point you were willing to leave the Republican Party . I havent left yet. They might kick me out dragging me out kicking and screaming. I will go down with a fight because i want to hold up a mirror and show them they are not who they claim to be. That is most effective. I dont believe the threat will go away. The Republican Party will continue to devol to a malicious form of white identity grievance politics and will be around for another couple decades. I want to note ucla invited several republicans to join the conversation and they were not available but they conduct several invitations and that is why they are not joining this conversation. They were not available or the indication. You are a democrat running in a red state. You have a certain percentage of the vote, you are in second place. A young latino democrat running in a state like that, what messaging do you have and do you expect to get support white voters . Without a doubt i was born and raised, so many parts of my background diverse, being a member in idaho, i grew up in public housing, overcame a lot of challenges but more importantly i was running to stand up for people with all blocks of life with access to affordable healthcare like my dad who had a factory job in 2014, got laid off, lost his insurance shortly thereafter, couldnt get treatment, those are the issues that resonated with people from all walks of life so when it comes to people needing to stand up for folks from Rural Communities that is the message i brought to bear and it was received very well, the largest idaho statesman, lots of elected officials locally, and it was a positive thing and important for people where i come from to see minorities, hispanics, latinos run for office at any and all levels to normalize it because with us for a lot of people that dont know, the county i come from is the second most populous in the state but we have a lot of challenges when it comes to voting rights, Voter Suppression. I was at the forefront of fighting that and in the campaign we went from 55 polling locations to five and i sounded the alarm, joined up with Senate Candidate paul it gordon and restored in polling locations as recently as 2018 it was in english only pulled so there could be no assistance. For spanishspeaking community members, weve got 40 of the Hispanic Community in idaho. Growth a lot of room for and for barb progress. Other thing,n one throughout the course of my campaign, i met incredible young pe from all walks of life but i remember one in particular, thomas, was a national guardsman, like 19 or 20 years old. Hes about to become a sheriff and he was at a mariachi band they came out of help you with a get out the vote event, just really incredible young man who i very much admire. I think i can see me a candidate a young age, 35, perhaps you will aspire to run for Syrian Government and get an early start and seek and get involved in his community and shoot for the moon. Thats a good one. Want to go back to florida because we cant ignore the elephant in the room. It seems like the narrative of the latino vote has revolved around florida, in particular miamidade county. Although trump improved his margins from 2016 by 22 percentage points. That is a lot. You mentioned it before any no, you would like to look at the glass halffull and not half empty. But i live in miami and i can tell you i saw the ads date in india. I saw the misinformation. I felt the misinformation really be ingrained in the minds of voters here. Not only to American Voters but she had to include other essential americans. Mike, i would like you to address more or less the same issue when it comes to florida. I mean, youre a republican. Youre not democratic, youre not cuban, the Republican Party always says their ground is better than the democrats grounded. That they campaign for four years, not inhs the last two or three months. Do you feel the republicans are doing a better job in trying to seduce, for lack of a better word, latino voters to their ranks . No. No. No. Republicans have been saying this for 30 years and i know because i have been there. No. No, they are not. Look, as a practitioner, look, i dont know if on the right person to enter the florida question but there is validity to what is being said here. Look, i dont believe you should i think when we were polling and looking at florida, like at the latino vote of florida we were seeing the same over consolidation in miamidade, seeing a multigenerational [inaudible] the question is how much do you need to contest that . It was clear to us the Biden Campaign was focusing efforts to turn out the puerto rican votes and these of the constituencies. Exactly the same way we would approach the campaign. You cant win every vote. As were learning about diversity, seen and talked and written about extensively now were seeing it happening on the ground, there are going to have to be determinations about how this vote is going to be secured. I think the days of one Party Getting 80 of the vote, 75 of vote are probably gone. Thats okay. Thats helping with democracy fungus is a competition for the votes. Hopefully moving away from whats Republican Party has been doing which is kind of using the changing demographics as kind of a racial punching bag. But to suggest some of the republican are doing a a better job on the ground game with Latino Community is absolutely incorrect. Matt, can you address that . You have another quite a bit doing polling for the Biden Campaign. Do you think thats an erroneous perception that republicans have actually been [inaudible] i do think the miamidade electorate is unique soul so le put that in perspective. It represents a unique area which there is a long legacy of latino republican and liked almost every level of government. So that isnt infrastructure and has been for 30 years in miami of latino republican leadership, even ideologically diverse within the infrastructure there. There are more centrist and even leftleaning who are republicans because that was a part in that was latina driven. It has been there for a very long time andnd i think what is happened is that the Misinformation Campaign in 2020 is really a powerful story of what happened in miamidade. It e senator rubio started working on that misinformation. He was tweeting just today additional wild theories about how some of these appointees are going to ruin america and our socialist. They have been working on that line. Otherwise, republican leaning constituency for a very long time. The dnc had an entire disinformation campaign. We would get daily updates of what was happening. I think what the democrats can do is recognize that, and they need to get in there at that level and instead of thinking that we are only going to convince people with these great they do not appear to work in miami. And penetratein more deeply and have conversations to dispel those myths about socialism and changing america. Because it is the case and it did not just happen overnight. It has been there for 30 years. Think that it is something to look at. But remember, it only represents 3 of the latino electorate nationally. There is so much more across the country. While i think it is an interesting community to dissect. To dissect, it is not representative of what happened in 2020. It is the one that across the country, maybe even across the be is the one that part of it is a attention. A happenstance of time zones. If you can all imagine a different scenario Election Night, where arizona was the first state to close, we saw these huge margins and vote numbers. 650,000 latino voters in or as an of this year. Huge margins for bidenharris. What if that had been the first piece of information we had on Election Night . Everyone would have been talking about how the mexicanamerican Community Came out and lifted arizona. Arizona was the first state to flip. It was one of the last states to certify and finalize, but it was the first state to show that biden won the state. We areame in first, dropping off from this election. Put this in perspective. Its 3 of the electorate. There is work to be done, but we should be talking about arizona, the latino vote in philadelphia. And including the latino vote in georgia, that is recordbreaking. There is more work to be done. And. Ould be investing others are a lot of Important Media station investing. E there are several organizations and a lot of that have been working to try to make sure that they register voters and that they get them out to vote. It worked this time around. What we would hear from voters not having a good choice. Democratic party take latino voters for granted . Because that is a perception out there, that they show up only two months before an election. Absolutely not. Our ethnicity modeling. When i got to the dnc and 2017, we had a lot of work to do. Part of the infrastructure rebuild as it relates to connecting to latino voters was developing the capacity to talk differently from colombians, differently from cunabos and puerto riquenos. Not is exactly what we did only in florida, but elsewhere. You look at what we were able to do when the 2018 cycle, we made tremendous progress. Turnouttino voter you saw latino voter turnout showed a higher percentage of latinos in 2018 then in 2016. That is nuts. That is remarkable. Ive been in arizona for 10 years, starting with sb 1070. We understood, not just in florida, we tend to think of latinos and arizona and florida and colorado and new mexico, latinos are different across the country. Look at nevada, look at arizona, look at wisconsin. I mentioned that before. 44,000 votes for latinos in wisconsin. We lost wisconsin by 22,000 votes or 21,000 votes in 2016. We knew that latinos could be the difference maker. We had a 40,000 vote swing in wisconsin in 2020. Same deal in michigan. Another state we would talk about Morris Joe Biden had actually won it. He came close. North carolina, you saw dramatic increase in latino voter turnout. You see the latino population is exploding. I recognize that immediately in my tenure. That is why we made these early investments not only in talking to latino voters, but also fielding and supporting latino candidates down ballots. We have seen tremendous progress in that area. Is there more to do . Of course there is. But we are far better off now than we were four years ago. All politics is personal. You cant show up every fourth of october at someones church and call that organizing. That is transactional politics. And the reason why we won in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020 is because we built these relationships and we have delivered on promises. People see the contrast between what joe biden and other democrats are fighting for. I applaud the work they have project,he london because this is really about our character as a nation. The party of lincoln is dead. The party of trump is a very dangerous party. I wish the party of lincoln were not dead. I think we thrive in a twoparty democracy where both parties are operating within guardrail. Latino voters have seen that these guardrails have been obliterated by a president who when he walked down the escalator of the trump tower five years ago, he started right away attacking our communities. Think we havey a real opportunity here that is why i think we have a real opportunity here, but we need to sustain it. That is exactly what we are going to continue to do. Continued to climb the mountain in texas. We made progress in certain parts of the state. Texas, i am certain, is going to be a real battleground state in 2024. Heres a reason. One word. Latinos. Thank you, tom. Before i go to my questions from the audience, as a republican, is this the Republican Party of donald trump . Yes, unfortunately, it is. Im not very optimistic about the Republican Party returning to the party that i joined before. I became a republican because i was concerned about Economic Issues in the Latino Community. I was not seeing that voice being addressed. Part that ismuch a driven by identity and many reasons in many reasons. Everything the party has shown for decades has shown to be a facade. Everything they advocated for. It is very much its base very much to identity. This is a great irony. The greatest purveyor of identity politics is the Republican Party. Same as california, the Republican Party is 85 white. It is not hard to see the correlation, what is happening here. Republicans are very strongly feared with whites who economic collapse, blaming other people who are other people for what they believe is the demise of america. They think the loss of trump in this campaign is perhaps the end of the beginning. We have a 20 year demographic fight to make sure that this social problem does not to try the democratic institutions. We are going to go to our first question from the audience. There was a significant increase in participation among young latino voters. The was a 330 increase in early voting turnout among the segment. What is the story here . Thank you for the question. I think reaching them where they are at, breaching them through the mediums that they use, social media, tiktok, all the platforms that they engage in, and through the things that they like. I think that is the most effective way. Partnerships with influencers, from all segments of society, whether it be athletes, journalists, elected officials, you name it. The whole gamut. That is what i believe. Question, what can 2020 tell us about how to approach voting in 2024 and 2028, and so on . I think lets pick up from the previous question and the comments, the latino electorate is by far the youngest. It will continue to get younger as more young people agent to the electorate age into the electorate. In arizona, there were 150,000 Latino High School students in 2016 in the clintontrump election. Guess what . In 2020, they were all eligible to vote. 175,000 another Latino High School students this year who just barely missed being able to vote in this president ial election who will be eligible. The youth in our community is transforming our electorate. We need to reach out to them. Get them engaged, let them feel heard, and massively target what a registration campaigns, latino votes, other groups that are targeting voter participation, to go after young latinos and bring them in, because our community is going to continue growing. You heard about the huge increase in the denominator, the number of latino voters. I mentioned it has over doubled in 16 years. That trajectory is going to continue. People need to be looking at the latino vote is a young vote, as a bicultural vote. Many of these folks are u. S. Born but have immigrant parents. Engaging them in english but through a latino lens, talking to them about their issues as americans. That is something we can do, focus on the use, and that can help us grow the latino vote for the next few elections. Thank you. The next question is for mike. What is your vision for an ideal Republican Party . How does this vision include latinos . Im not sure that i have much of a vision for the Republican Party anymore. Im not convinced, like i said, but it is one, salvageable, not interested in Party Politics generally. At fort for the Latino Community, republicans will advocate for the community, im interested in advocating for my community regardless of party. Have a belief i have a belief system that i adhere to. Im not convinced the Party Structure that we have right now is working for the best interest for the community. Thank you. Tom, how do you explain the . Osses in the house happened look at what in the cycle after the elections, we can go 2010, for instance, republicans won 60 seats or Something Like that and took over the house. What happened in 2012 is they lost a number of those seats because they won a number of seats in democratic districts, then you have a cycle, then you end up having greater turnout, then they lost some of those seats. You look at kendra horn, a wonderful member of congress from oklahoma, she won in 2018 in about 14 districts. It wonderful member. In new mexico, her district was again trump plus double digits. The list goes on. There were seven or eight people like that, who did not pull it out in this election cycle, where you had greater turnout. From the fact that we were in a president ial cycle. That is to be expected in the year after election. We had a wave. I look at where we are now and where we were four years ago, we did not have the house representatives. We now have it under speaker pelosis leadership. Yes, we have a smaller margin. Yes, i would have liked to have won the seats in texas. What we saw was some of the turnout modeling turned out not to be accurate. We lost a lot of close races. History and iat expected we were going to end up in the negative in terms of numbers of seats because we had done so well. Another explanation is, you know, in 2010 the republicans, they wiped is out in a lot of state elections for governors, statehouses. They were in charge of redistricting. We have so many states where we not only have to win, we have to beat the spread in order to win our races because of the gerrymandering that the Supreme Court sanctioned. That is another factor and that is why im glad we have eight more chambers that have flipped in 24 governors instead of 15. That is going to help us as we get into the next redistricting cycle. When we draw maps we do pretty well. Look at pennsylvania. We had a fair map in 2018. We went from five out of 18 to nine out of 18. On a certain level it makes sense. Pennsylvania is a swing state. 99 or 108. Have because of gerrymandering it is a continuing challenge. We have time for one more question and i wanted to address that to matt. Diversity we talked about today can we say that there is a latino vote . Getting thatn question a lot and it is a very important question. I think there are latino voters. As i said in the opening i think there is a lot we have in common with each other whether it is cubans, venezuelans, Puerto Ricans, central americans. We have a lot in common. But what we have learned the cycle is we need to understand our diversity and Everyone Wants to feel included and engaged. If you look at the areas where candidates where the Biden Campaign focused, you saw the return of investment. Use of very High Performance from these battleground states. We can still talk about latino voters, but we should not talk about the latino vote because it is so diverse. But all of us within that segment, within that diversity, we identify as latino and see something in common with other latinos. We do have that political diversity. Lets continue to remember that. Lets move forward with outreach to latinos as if theyre not the same and i think that will be the most successful strategy. I am sure there are a lot of Lessons Learned that can be applied going forward. I want to thank you. We are out of time. We could have this conversation for hours. Madrid, thank you all for your intellect and sharing your knowledge with us. Thank you to ucla and the institute for inviting me to moderate this panel. I would like to pass it on to sonja diaz, founding director of latino policy and politics initiative. Thank you for inviting me. Awesome. Thank you so much, maria. For those looking to understand the latino vote, it is great to go straight to the experts. This robust and dynamic conversation, about something many of us have been saying a long time, is simple. There is no path to the white house without the latino electorate. From are many lessons 2020. But these lessons should not be with the news cycle. One need only look to georgia and the role of the black and Brown Coalition and ensuring they can overcome Voter Suppression to cast a ballot. Latinos are not a monolith and we know engagement must be done early and automatically. They are not a single issue community. With that they want to shape our future economy. They want to decide about issues around global warming. They want access to Quality Health care, and most importantly they want to get over covid19 which has decimated black and brown communities. In order to do this, latinos, like other voters of color, cannot be taken for granted by either party, candidates, or campaign. And we know, and our research at ucla has made clear in 2018 and 2020, the campaigns that inspire latino turnout will be rewarded with winning margins. They have the power to swing outcomes like we saw this november. Now, there are states like arizona and georgia that provide a roadmap for the future. We know it is Community Organizers and advocates and young latinos, along with black and indigenous voters, who really are the smart investment. These folks are eager. They are eager to transform policy around issues like guns, police abuse, and climate change. Policy necessitates representation. Yesterday, we got news of the nomination of mayorkas toledo tomeland security two lead homeland security. Notr voices are essential only for the immediate challenges, the ones that introduce themselves in the Science Fiction of 2020, but they are necessary to get this pandemic under control. This pandemic has put so many families and households in an economically precarious situation that requires urgent action. Todays conversation make this point clear. Let me reiterate it. There is no american agenda without a latino agenda. The future prosperity of this country, and our ability to recover, to continue to be resilient, needs to center on the frontline communities. That will drive the growth in our economy, but will continue to transform electoral outcomes. There is no going back to whatever normal there was before january 2020. Latinos are and latinos the pumas are ready and eager to be an integral part of the stronger, better america. 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President , the senate reconveneser this afternn i am especially happy welcome back our president pro tem, senator grassley quarantined, work from home following his positive covid test two weeks ago. We all predicted if any member of the body had the stamina and the spirit to t kick the virus o the curb, it would certainly be him. And sure enough our gallic reports that he experienced no symptoms. As doctors have cleared him to come back to work and were sure glad to have him back