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Progressives invested in Georgia s Latino communities. Voter turnout shattered expectations. Suzanne Gamboa © Provided by NBC News
Days before the Senate runoffs in Georgia this month, a canvasser with the Latino progressive political group Mijente knocked on the door of an 80-year-old man who didn’t know there was an election or who was running.
The man asked the canvasser to talk to him about who was best for the community, and that’s who would get his vote, said Tania Unzueta Carrasco, political director for Mijente, who related the story told to her by a canvasser.
“Here in Georgia, the support of the two candidates was a little bit of a trust exercise,” Unzueta Carrasco told NBC News. “We were looking at the bigger picture. We were looking at the fact that if they didn’t win, we wouldn’t have a Democratic majority.”
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Laura Barberena, a San Antonio strategist, directed and co-wrote a series of Spanish-language ads for the Georgia Senate runoff, helping Jon Ossoff win. (Doug Mills/The New York Times)DOUG MILLS /NYT
It’s a given in Texas politics that Latino voters have the power to make or break campaigns.
We don’t generally hear too much, however, about the impact of the Latino vote in Georgia.
Nonetheless, Latinos make up nearly 10 percent of the Georgia population and they were semi-secret weapons Tuesday in Georgia’s two U.S. Senate runoffs, both of which went to the Democratic challengers in upset fashion.
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Voting rights groups are warning that early voting site closures in Georgia are limiting Black and Latino turnout in the state s two highly-anticipated Senate runoff elections even as a federal judge on Monday ordered two counties to reverse a decision purging more than 4,000 voters from the rolls.
Election officials in Hall County, which is located about an hour northeast of Atlanta and includes Gainesville, have opened four early voting sites, down from eight locations in the November election. The county is home to more than 200,000 people, nearly 40% of whom are Latino or Black. Multiple advocacy groups said that the closures were centered in areas with large Black and Latino populations, HuffPost reported.
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