… With the hard-fought midterm elections less than three weeks away, Democratic Party strategists hope Latino voters who are angered by the Trump administration’s policies and divisive language will help deliver resounding victories in many of the races that will decide political control in Washington. If ever there were a time to cast protest ballots, they reason, it would be with President Trump in the White House.
But interviews with dozens of Hispanic voters in Nevada and Arizona, two key battleground states, showed a more complicated picture that is deeply alarming to Democratic Party officials. …
An election-year intensity gap between whites and Hispanics is one of the biggest worries for the Democrats heading into the midterms. They would stand a far better chance of capturing many of the Republican-held House districts that voted for Hillary Clinton, they say, if Hispanic adults registered and voted in greater numbers. CONT.
Jose A. Del Real & Jonathan Martin, New York Times