There are signs Gov. Gavin Newsom hasn’t locked in a once reliable and fast-growing Democratic voting bloc.
Those numbers aren’t surfacing in a red or purple state, but in big, blue California, where no Republican holds statewide office, Joe Biden clobbered Trump here by nearly 30 percentage points and Democrats outnumber Republicans nearly two-to-one. And when first elected in 2018, Newsom himself carried nearly two-thirds of the Latino vote,Just a small shift in Latino voter preferences in California would be significant.
But Proposition 187 — and the angst it created among Latinos — is now a generation old. Meanwhile, Latinos have suffered disproportionately amid the coronavirus pandemic — both economically and inLast year, Biden ultimately won the Latino vote and the presidency by a healthy margin. But Republicans successfully made inroads with Latino voters across the country and down the ballot.
In an ominous sign, Democratic gubernatorial candidate and former Gov. Terry McAuliffe is running far behind Biden’s numbers with Hispanic voters this year in Virginia — where about 10 percent of the population is Latino —
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