A chart that demonstrates the Latino vote for Biden and Trump in the 2020 presidential election. (Fox News)
"It made me feel like I should take that initiative to always spread the word, so at 12-years-old, I was always telling my family let’s go vote. I’d tell my dad, hey let’s go do this on Election Day, early voting started," said Martinez.
In the last presidential election, the Latino vote was closer between Biden and Trump compared nationally. For Latinos, there are some issues top of mind right now.
"Number one, immigration. As a daughter of immigrants, coming from a family of immigrants, I feel that I want to make sure my family is safe and treated with respect. Education is definitely another big issue for me," said Martinez.
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"Issues that are really pressing to me are immigration reform, especially because I grew up in a community where there’s a bunch of undocumented people, and to me that matters…and healthcare, growing up, my dad was diabetic and undocumented, so it’s really difficult and in order to afford his medicine which involves two different types of insulin and three different types of pills in order to control his blood sugar," said another first-time voter Jiromi Pena.
A group of people in a discussion at a political forum in Nevada. (Sunny Tsai)
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"That’s where our nonpartisan voter registration shot up. If you look at voters 18-34, 61% of them are registered nonpartisan, independent," said Vote Nevada CEO Sondra Cosgrove.
Vote Nevada says there needs to be more education surrounding voting, especially catering toward the younger voters so that their voices do not go unheard.
Sunny Tsai joined Fox News in 2023 as a Multimedia Reporter based in Las Vegas.
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