Clinton looks to shore up support among younger Latinos in CA

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Via Washington Post

In a state like California, that trend is an acute problem for Clinton. The state’s 15 million Latinos are about a third of the Democratic electorate, and they are much more likely than any other minority group to be younger — prime targets for Sanders’s message. The median age for Latinos is 27, compared with 34 for blacks and 43 for whites, according to the Census bureau.

Clinton has spent most of her time campaigning in California without mentioning Sanders, but that has begun to change in recent days as the race has gotten close

Several recent polls show Sanders within two points of Clinton. In response to the growing pressure, Clinton has returned to critiquing Sanders over his past opposition to immigration reform legislation.

“It is true we got close to immigration reform,” Clinton said in Los Angeles, recalling a 2007 comprehensive immigration reform bill that failed when she, Sanders and President Obama were in the Senate. “President Obama and I voted for it, and Sen. Sanders voted against it.”

“It was heartbreaking,” she added, referring to the bill’s failure.

But her allies also think that younger Latinos are not fully aware of Clinton’s past work on immigration issues, including registering voters in Texas, working with the families of farmworkers as a teen and advocating for immigration reform legislation in the Senate.

Her campaign believes that the key to making inroads with Latino voters is in closing this information gap.

“It’s more just a matter of letting folks know her history,” said California Rep. Xavier Becerra, a Clinton supporter. “I remember going to speak at UCLA, and I mentioned she’s been doing this for the longest time; they couldn’t remember.”

In recent days, Clinton has sharpened her argument to Latinos about the prospect of a Trump presidency. She warned that his proposal to deport some 11 million undocumented immigrants would necessitate massive deportation raids. And she seized on his criticism of a federal judge, Gonzalo Curiel, who will preside over a fraud case against Trump University, and whom Trump accused of bias because of his Mexican heritage.

“He’s trying to distract people by making a prejudiced, bigoted attack on the federal judge who is hearing the case,” Clinton said. “Judge Curiel is as much of an American as I am, and he’s as much of an American as Donald Trump is.”

The searing critique of Trump that she delivered in a speech in San Diego is also a source of hope for some of her supporters.

Most of Leslie Milke’s students at Mission College are Sanders supporters, because his “tone is interesting to them,” she said.

Clinton, on the other hand, “comes across as a politician,” Milke said.

That changed Thursday, according to Milke, who said she was energized by Clinton’s energetic and relaxed verbal confrontation with Trump.

“That’s what she should be doing,” Milke, 57, said. “She was much more relaxed. She was free.”

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