Democrats Don’t Deserve Latino Votes Just Because They’re the Less Racist Party

Politics is transactional. What were the Dems really offering Latinos?

Maria Hinojosa
GEN
Published in
5 min readNov 9, 2020

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Latina women rally to get out the vote in Las Vegas, Nevada. Photo: The Washington Post/Getty Images

The day after the election, I woke up at 4 a.m. to do my first live shot on TV. I had this sick feeling in the pit of my stomach and a deep sense of dread. The media pollsters had overhyped a blue wave that never…

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Maria Hinojosa
GEN
Writer for

Founder and President of Futuro Media Group and author of Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America.