With less than a year to go before the 2024 election, Georgia’s Latino voters are thinking about economic issues, and while they align more with the Democratic Party on average, majorities say both parties either don’t care too much about or are hostile toward their community.
Those are some of the findings of a UnidosUS survey of Latino voters in Georgia conducted last month.
Hispanics are the second-fastest growing group of Georgians in the 2020 census, after people who identify as Black, but the major parties have often misunderstood or oversimplified them, leading to weak or no efforts to earn their votes, said Clarissa Martinez, Vice President of UnidosUS’ Latino Vote Initiative.
“In 2022, only three months before the election, a large majority of Hispanic voters in Georgia reported no outreach from either party in what was a highly competitive midterm election,” she said. “We hope that improves this cycle. Our poll today shows that both parties have work to do to better engage and expand support with Hispanic voters.”