18 Jan LIZARRAGA: So just before journalism, Paola, your career was at politics
RAMOS: The theory began, most, into the 2016. And therefore back then, I became a staffer towards Clinton strategy. My like identity in the past are deputy manager of Latina push. And thus it absolutely was this concept you to definitely, facing anybody such Donald Trump - you know, an individual who is saying that individuals who have been via Mexico were criminals and rapists - facing anybody instance him, the theory away from Democratic politics is you to definitely Latinos manage particular upsurge in these types of, such as, unprecedented number. Hence was not the way it is, right? The thing is that you to less than 50% away from Latinos actually turned up in order to choose, and after that you quick-forward to 2020. You see up coming unexpectedly one to Donald Trump does anywhere between seven to ten facts greatest with Latino voters during the 2020 than he does inside 2016.
And therefore part of the suggestion behind "Defectors" are skills that which was at that heart, you understand, with the tiny but growing number of Latinos you to definitely receive things tempting within the Trumpism plus in the much correct and several people despite extremism.