/PRNewswire/ Voto Latino today announced its founding membership in the Building Back Together coalition, a new communications initiative designed to lift.
Media Matters For America
WASHINGTON, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ According to a new study, among Latinx respondents who have not yet been vaccinated, 51% say they will likely not get vaccinated against COVID-19 at this time this number rises to 67% within Spanish-speaking households. The two most commonly cited reasons against taking the vaccine are around
safety and
effectiveness, which are especially prevalent in Spanish-speaking households. The study goes on to find that misinformation around COVID-19 and the vaccines play a critical role in fueling vaccine hesitancy among Latinos. Facebook (49%) and local news (39%) are the top reported platforms spreading inaccurate and harmful information around the vaccines.
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Like so many of his colleagues, NBC’s Chuck Todd continues to offer a platform for the lie that Georgia’s election security bill is a racist tool meant to disenfranchise nonwhite voters. On this week’s
Meet The Press, Todd led a panel discussion about that new law, in which
PBS NewsHour correspondent Yamiche Alcindor compared its enactment to the death of George Floyd.
Also present on the panel was NBC News contributor and Voto Latino president María Teresa Kumar, who contributed the following DNC talking point-laden tirade to the discussion:
Basically what we are seeing that happened in Georgia, with the Republican legislation, is that they are corking the path and putting resin on the ball. They are cheating. They were the ones that created the current, existing laws on the books. The Secretary of State of Georgia certified that there was no cheating, that this was actually a certified election. And now, because they didn’t like the fact that
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THE LATEST ON FRIDAY’S CAPITOL ATTACK, via WaPo: “One Capitol Police officer was killed and another injured Friday when a man crashed his vehicle into them near the U.S. Capitol, an attack that once again put the city on edge as threats stemming from the deadly insurrection in January had started to wane.