For his 2024 Senate bid, Rep. Ruben Gallego (D) wants to target the swath of Latino voters in the state who typically don’t participate and are disillusioned and distrustful of politicians.
“To see someone like us? Oh my God,” Lucero, 76, said, pausing as he choked up. “It means a lot. It really means a lot.”election
Sinema has not announced whether she will run for reelection, though many political insiders in Arizona expect she will, opening the door for a three-way general election race in the battleground state.Interviews with more than a dozen Latino voters in the state illustrated deep frustrations with Washington. They said politicians have failed to respond to their everyday needs, including tackling the rising costs of prescription drugs, rent and groceries.
Gallego’s strategy to engage thousands of potential voters within Arizona’s rapidly growing Latino population, spanning from the U.S.-Mexico border to the state’s urban areas, could help him compete with Sinema and other political opponents in a state that narrowly flipped key statewide races blue, Democratic leaders and organizers in the state say.
In his speech, the five-term congressman shared his story as a first-generation American, the son of a Colombian mother and Mexican father. He was raised by a single mother, didn’t have his own bed until he arrived at his dorm at HarvardHe also took direct aim at Sinema, whom he supported in 2018. “The problem with Kyrsten isn’t that she left the Democratic Party,” he said. “The problem is she left and abandoned Arizona.
“We didn’t care if he was a Republican, he was a good person — and that's what Ruben is. He’s a good individual,” Lucero said. “I'm hoping that the other party can see that in him.”
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