Michelle Lujan Grisham, who was among those considered for Biden’s vice-presidential pick and who appeared at a Washington Post Live virtual event Wednesday. ADADWhile Biden was beating Trump with Latino voters in a June NPR poll — 59 percent to 39 percent — he was underperforming compared with 2016 Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who ultimately won 66 percent of the Latino vote. But his relationship with Latino voters is less entrenched; it’s a population that is on average younger than Black voters and is generally less politically engaged. “So, we can’t take anything for granted.”Lujan Grisham told me that she — and the Biden-Harris team — will not do that. In fact, she hopes to enlist Castro and others in her efforts to make sure as many Latino voters as possible get to the polls to support the former vice president.

Source: Washington Post August 20, 2020 00:28 UTC