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Black, Latino Turnout Is Pivotal in Wisconsin's 2024 Vote
Clip: Season 2300 Episode 2310 | 5m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Black, Latino voters will play a key role in the 2024 presidential election in Wisconsin.
Black and Latino voters will play a key role in who wins the 2024 presidential election, and the Democratic and Republican campaigns are touting their candidates to these communities around Wisconsin.
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Black, Latino Turnout Is Pivotal in Wisconsin's 2024 Vote
Clip: Season 2300 Episode 2310 | 5m 53sVideo has Closed Captions
Black and Latino voters will play a key role in who wins the 2024 presidential election, and the Democratic and Republican campaigns are touting their candidates to these communities around Wisconsin.
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Dan Rossmiller from the Wisconsin Association of School Boards, thanks for your time.
>> Black and Latino voters will play a key role in who wins the white House.
A recent report by PBS NewsHour shows Donald Trump is gaining the support of more Black men this election cycle.
Murv Seymour has more on efforts to win over Black and Latino voters in Wisconsin.
>> We can't survive four more years of Joe Biden.
We need President Donald Trump.
>> Welcome to the last outdoor rally Donald Trump held in Wisconsin.
saying hello, Wisconsin.
Hello.
Great state.
I've had great.
We've had great success here.
What a crowd.
What a crowd.
>> And Trump's message is a crowd pleaser here.
>> After we win the presidency, I will have the horrible war between Russia and Ukraine settled with only a few Black and Latino voters in attendance.
Because if you look at the Hispanic population, the former president talks directly to this minority group of voters who overwhelmingly and traditionally tend to vote for Democrats.
>> Trump is trying to buck the trend with voters of color.
But is it working?
>> If you look at the Black population, they're voting for Trump.
They're voting for Trump.
You you look at you.
You Thank you.
I like that person right there.
>> Hilario Deleon is the first Latino chairman of the Republican Party of Milwaukee County, and he's the youngest.
He passionately works the crowd at rallies like this to ignite enthusiasm for Donald Trump, who he believes offers a lot to Black and Latino voters, especially when it comes to jobs and the economy.
being left behind by the Democrat Party.
They feel like the party is gone way too far to the left, and they want to just kind of return back to the middle.
They may not like his personality, but if there's one thing that they do say is that he brought us jobs and he put money in our pockets and we were able to, you know, have, you know, better life under him than under the previous administration.
blocks away.
He tells me he's brought his young son to teach and expose him to politics so he can one day vote with his conscience.
politics I didn't understand.
I said, well, whatever they do is fine with me.
But when you have children and a family, you understand that?
Wait a minute now.
I can't afford paying all this for the gas.
When it was Leow for the food and the eggs when it was low, and now it's high.
Why is it high?
>> Sporting is Donald Trump wanted for president?
Shirt Phillips Brookshire is a walking billboard for the Trump campaign.
He says he's been supporting Republican candidates since the days of Ronald Reagan.
If he could have things his way, I wish more Black people would pay attention to their own hearts and stuff.
>> And don't go by the media and don't go listening because of, what their grandfathers and grandmothers said.
Vote Democrat.
Don't do that.
Vote for somebody that that has ideas that are really out here to do something to help you to connect with more voters in Wisconsin, the Republican and Democratic parties both have set up offices in Milwaukee's inner city, targeting Blacks and Latinos.
>> Gracias por la vida.
Salud y fuerza.
>> Welcome to Milwaukee's south side.
Sin su voto, no tienen voz.
>> Without your votes, you have no voice, he says.
>> We have a chance to shape the direction of our nation, and Latin culture.
>> Imagine being able to just talk to three people, a week, maybe change one person's mind a week.
You could literally be the difference surrogates of the Harris Walz campaign have come to Iglesia del Dios Vivo Church to speak directly to Latino and Black voters in this blended neighborhood.
a una persona.
Qué VA no quiere a Los latinos?
Quiere divisione?
>> Tonight's message is in English.
something is right now.
We don't want to wait until November 6th and Espanol.
>> Let's get out here.
Let's get the vote.
Gracias.
And God bless you.
Thank you.
>> If the election is close, voters in this room could be some of those who decide who wins.
it's going to come down to the Black and the Latino vote coming together and talking together is an excellent way to improve our chances of the Black and Latino vote.
Doing it for Harris and Walsh as a Latino person, I would say it's important to vote for the candidate that is going to, you know, be open to diversity and to community and people of various cultures.
>> Good evening.
>> Milwaukee during the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris brought her message of a proposed tax cut for the middle class and $25,000 in down payment assistance for first time homeowners to the Fiserv Forum Arena in downtown Milwaukee.
While she doesn't say it, it's a message meant to speak directly to middle class Black and Latino voters.
>> The high cost of housing understanding so many people are trying to fulfill the American dream, and we need to give people help to get there.
>> Milwaukee Mayor Cavalier Johnson resists the assumption that Black Latino voters will automatically support the Democrats.
But he says he hasn't met any Black voters in Milwaukee who support Donald Trump.
>> That's why the vice president today is leaving her own convention, the DNC in Chicago, coming to Milwaukee, coming to the most diverse community in the entire state of Wisconsin and saying, hey, we see you.
We value you.
And I want to earn your vote.
>> People go there from Wisconsin.
our great country.
Bountiful Black and Latino voters in Wisconsin is hardly over.
Some wonder just how many more times will we see this team of candidates here in this crucial swing state to win over crucial swing state to win over
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