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Month after month for the last two years, Democrats and President Joe Biden have been able to advance their radical agenda while Republicans have largely been sidelined.

Well, we just got back to Washington after spending August back at home, and families in Florida, Texas, and Utah are FURIOUS. They are sick and tired of watching Washingtons broken status quo continue while they deal with the consequences of reckless spending in Congress.

Who can blame them? As theyve felt the pain of rising inflation month after month, theyve had to watch from afar as too many Republicans have caved to the demands of the Democrats carrying out an agenda led by radical leftists in the White House and on Capitol Hill. That must end.

Its time for Republicans to stand united and demand that Congress pass a clean continuing resolution (CR) that simply maintains current federal spending levelsand not a penny moreuntil a new Congress begins.

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Now, before the liberal media starts losing its mind, lets make a few things clear. First, forcing Congress to pass a clean CR will not result in ANY cuts to funding or services. What this will do is ensure that the federal government continues to operate as it must for the American people until a new Congress begins in 2023. Second, this is not some convoluted scheme to cause a government shutdown. If Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called a vote tomorrow on a clean CR that extends government funding to January 31, 2023, it would easily pass. This is about accountability and doing whats right for American taxpayers. Thats it.

President Joe Biden walks with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, July 14, 2021, as he arrives to discuss the latest progress on his infrastructure agenda. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Lets also use this opportunity to dismiss the ridiculous thinking here in Washington that the only way to get some things done is to shove them into a giant spending bill negotiated in secret. Its lazy and a slap in the face to American taxpayers who are robbed of true accountability and who are paying the price for Washingtons reckless spending and the raging inflation it causes.

If there are other issues that we need to confront, then members should bring them forward for a vote without delay. Anything that is truly urgent can and should be voted on as soon as possible.

Washington cannot continue to get away with holding things hostage so they can be used as political weapons to force yet more irresponsible spending in a government funding bill.

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It should also be clear that under no circumstances should any Republican in the new majorities next year vote to fund the Democrats' newly passed army of 87,000 new IRS agents. Instead of funding thousands of new IRS officials to audit and harass Americans, we should spend that money to hire new border patrol agents and finally secure our border.

Congress has one job in this context: to fund the government. Since Congress has failed to fulfill even its most basic duties, the least it can do is remain responsible and accountable to American taxpayers. When Republicans retake the majorities in Congress in January 2023, we will return power back to American families and end the insane spending.

We must ensure Washington prioritizes the needs of the American people by focusing on things like getting our economy back on track, reducing inflation, combatting violent crime, and keeping our families safe.

America is more than $30 TRILLION in debt. The worst move imaginable would be to gift the Democrats one last liberal spending spree in December as they leave power.

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It's time for Republicans to stand up and unite. We cannot green light one more liberal priority that will simply send America further in the wrong direction.

We must show strength now and prove to the American people that we will end the madness in Washington and return power back to them, where it rightly belongs.

Republican Ted Cruz represents Texas in the United States Senate.

Republican Mike Lee represents Utah in the United States Senate.

Republican Rick Scott represents Florida in the United States Senate. He is aformer Florida governor.

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The environment is upside down, said Michael Brodkorb, a former deputy chair of the Minnesota Republican Party. The intensity has been reversed.

It isnt just abortion. Less than 20 years after conservatives used ballot measures against same-sex marriage to boost voter turnout in 11 states, public sentiment has shifted on the issue so dramatically that Democrats are poised to force a vote on legislation to protect same-sex marriage to try to damage Republican candidates. Following the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Democrats from Georgia and Wisconsin to Illinois and California are running ads supporting gun restrictions, once viewed as a liability for the left, while openly engaging Republicans on crime.

In an advertising campaign shared with POLITICO, the center-left group Third Way said the PAC it launched last year to defend moderate Democrats, Shield PAC, will start spending at least $7 million next week on digital and mail ads in seven competitive House districts to counter Republican attacks on crime, immigration and other culture war issues.

The advertising push follows polling in Rep. Abigail Spanbergers Virginia district that suggested counter-messaging by Democrats on public safety could blunt the effect of defund the police attacks by Republicans. As a result, while Spanberger is airing ads tearing into her Republican opponent on abortion, Shield PAC will be running a digital campaign bolstering Spanbergers credentials on police funding.

The story is that things that used to be very dangerous for Democrats guns and abortion are now very good for Democrats, said Third Ways Matt Bennett. Those kind of culture issues [same-sex] marriage, abortion and guns have flipped. The political impact of them [has] flipped.

Republicans, Bennett said, are not giving up on the culture wars as a [political] opportunity ahead of the midterms. But he said, I think we can neutralize those issues if you correct the record.

Thats a far cry from the GOPs one-time strength: campaigning on God, guns and gays. It was only a year ago that the cultural flashpoints in American politics appeared much more favorable to the GOP, with Republicans driving a flurry of news cycles on mask mandates, critical race theory, transgender student athletes and the perceived excesses of social media and big tech.

Even on abortion, voter intensity if not overall public opinion appeared as recently as last year to be on Republicans side. In the Virginia gubernatorial race in 2021, a majority of voters who listed abortion as the most important issue facing the state voted for the Republican, Glenn Youngkin, according to exit polls.

But just as Democrats saw the politics of guns begin to shift in 2018 when candidates favoring restrictions on firearms prevailed in some congressional swing districts the rejection of an anti-abortion ballot measure in Kansas and Democratic over-performances in special elections in Nebraska, Minnesota and New York this summer revealed the opening for them in Roe.

Democrats are like, Eureka! We have our own culture war successes, said New York-based Democratic strategist Jon Reinish, a former aide to Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand. This year, he said, could be a turning point in which the deployment of the culture war actually works for the first time in the Democrats favor and not the Republicans.

That will say a lot about 2024, he added. Democrats are so afraid of their own shadows, naturally. But I think that if it works this time, this could give permission to not be afraid.

For Republicans, the toxicity of the Supreme Courts overturning of Roe v. Wade was not singularly in the unpopularity of the decision, but in its undercutting of Republican efforts to brand Democrats as extreme. At the base of every non-economic attack Republicans leveled at Democrats from crime to immigration and education was the idea that the left was out of touch. But Roe, supported by a majority of Americans including independents critical in a midterm election was a reminder that on one of the most salient issues of the midterms, Democrats were in the mainstream.

On top of that, abortion as a voting issue has been blotting out other cultural concerns, second only to inflation, according to an NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll released on Thursday.

Patrick Ruffini, a Republican consultant and pollster who has worked for the Republican National Committee and former President George W. Bushs 2004 reelection campaign, said that while Republicans still have winning arguments on issues including school curriculum and pandemic-related restrictions, abortion happens to be the most salient issue right now.

Whit Ayres, a longtime Republican pollster, noted that cultural issues still benefit Republicans, but Dobbs is a big deal, because it really energized women who werent particularly political before, including younger women.

The best case for Republicans is to have this be a referendum on the Biden administration and Democratic governance, especially inflation, immigration and crime, he said. Anything that detracts from that referendum undermines the Republican case.

For Republicans, the result has been a general election reset in which the GOP is refocusing squarely on inflation and on Biden, whose low job approval ratings remain a drag on the Democratic Party. Republicans are still widely expected to take the House in November, though likely by narrower margins than once expected. But if they do win the House it will likely be those kitchen-table issues, not the culture wars, that put them over the top.

This is visible in Colorado and Washington, where Republicans are casting incumbent Sens. Michael Bennet and Patty Murray as stooges of a Biden administration responsible for inflation and a teetering economy. In Nevada, Republicans are similarly hitting Democratic Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto on the Biden-Masto economy. They are still campaigning on crime rates and on immigration in some states. But they are saying as little as possible about Roe.

In Minnesota, Scott Jensen, the Republican nominee for governor, this week released an ad in which he holds a baby, dismisses abortion as a divisive issue and appeals to voters to instead focus on the issues that matter.

With Democrats doing better than anyone right now on cultural issues, said a former Republican congressman familiar with the partys campaign operation, its going to be back to the economy and bread-and-butter for the GOP.

Its going to be about the economy and peoples views on whats in their economic best interest, said the former congressman, granted anonymity to speak candidly. Thats the way Republicans are going to win in the fall, I think.

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U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock's campaign bus tour in Albany, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock's campaign bus tour in Albany, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022.

ALBANY, Ga. Johnnie Armstrong says he has voted in Albany since 1955, so he remembers an era when local officials tried to keep Black voters like him from the ballot box.

"They'd give you a bottle, a big thing with a lot of marbles in it," he says. "You guess how many marbles, then you can vote."

Armstrong says it felt remarkable that about 65 years later he got to help elect Georgia's first Black U.S. senator, Democrat Raphael Warnock.

Even better, Armstrong says, is Warnock spending a muggy August morning taking selfies with voters on Albany's Ray Charles Plaza as he campaigns for a full term in Washington.

Until recently, a statewide candidate spending significant time in this thinly populated, substantially Black, southwest corner of Georgia was virtually unheard of.

Johnnie Armstrong, sitting in front of the Ray Charles Memorial on Aug. 29, 2022, says he has voted in Albany, Ga., since 1955. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Johnnie Armstrong, sitting in front of the Ray Charles Memorial on Aug. 29, 2022, says he has voted in Albany, Ga., since 1955.

For years, Democrats failed to win statewide in Georgia. The ground began to shift about four years ago when Stacey Abrams made her first bid for governor.

"Atlanta cannot live without Albany, and Albany cannot live without the investments that come from Atlanta," Abrams said in 2017, launching her campaign, not in Atlanta, but in Albany. "We need to talk to those forgotten voters, the ones who are rarely talked about. I am running for governor because we need a governor who comes from a town like Albany. Where we begin does not dictate what we become."

Instead of bending over backward to court more conservative voters, Abrams focused on activating non-voters and irregular voters, especially people of color in overlooked parts of the state.

"I know everybody looks at Atlanta as the African American mecca," says Albany Commissioner Demetrius Young. "But if you follow this blue wave in Georgia, it came right through Albany down into Southwest Georgia. We need to hold the ground that we've gained."

Abrams' strategy got her within 55,000 votes of the governor's mansion in 2018, losing to Republican Brian Kemp. Two years later, it helped deliver Georgia for Joe Biden and flip two Senate seats, giving Democrats control of the U.S. Senate.

Albany Commissioner Demetrius Young outside of Sen. Warnock's campaign bus on Aug. 29, 2022. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Albany Commissioner Demetrius Young outside of Sen. Warnock's campaign bus on Aug. 29, 2022.

Young is glad candidates come to Southwest Georgia now, but he says they also need to deliver on their promises for a region that's not benefited as much from the state's economic growth.

"With the pandemic, it ripped wide open the disparities we knew were already there," he says.

Roughly a quarter of Southwest Georgians live below the poverty line, nearly double the rate in the U.S. For a time, Albany had the country's worst per-capita death rate from COVID.

After several grueling election cycles, many voters are tired and organizers are trying to combat that.

On a drizzly Monday, Shayla Jackson, an Albany native with the nonpartisan New Georgia Project, canvasses a block of small homes, where backyard chickens roam freely. After striking out at a dozen or so addresses, Lavasha Hooks opens her door for Jackson, with a toddler hiding behind her legs.

Hooks says the economy, racial justice and the pandemic are all on her mind. She plans to vote but she hasn't thought much about the midterms yet. She says she doesn't think politicians have done much to improve life in her corner of Georgia.

"The wages are too low in my current job," Hooks says. "And everything is more expensive."

Jackson walks Hooks through finding her polling location and asks if she will need a ride to the polls. The New Georgia Project, which does not canvas for candidates or parties, was founded by Abrams in 2014 as part of her strategy to expand Georgia's electorate. Abrams is no longer affiliated with the organization.

Shayla Jackson, an organizer with the New Georgia Project, canvasses on Aug. 29, 2022. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Shayla Jackson, an organizer with the New Georgia Project, canvasses on Aug. 29, 2022.

More than 50,000 people have registered in Southwest Georgia since 2018. The majority are non-white, the New Georgia Project says.

"Look, for the most part, the rural characterization is true," says Dante Chinni, a researcher with the American Communities Project who has studied rural African American counties in the South. "Rural America tends to vote for Trump, tends to be Republican. But when you divide the vote further, you see these subtleties and nuances."

Nearly a quarter of rural Americans were people of color in 2020, according to an analysis by the Brookings Institution. And while the country's rural population is shrinking overall, its diversity is growing.

Still, the biggest shifts from red to blue in 2020 were in the suburbs of metro Atlanta, where newcomers have poured in from out of state and where then-President Donald Trump repelled many moderate voters.

And even while Democrats in racially diverse rural communities in the South turned out more voters in the 2020 presidential election than in 2016, turnout for Trump soared even more in these same counties, driven by white, rural voters.

"This is a both/and strategy. I think some people want to use it as an either/or," says Andra Gillespie, a professor of political science at Emory University.

"Even though Democrats expect to lose in rural parts of the state, they can't underperform there. Because if they underperform there, they end up losing the election."

Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, during a "One Georgia Tour" campaign event in Atlanta on March 14, 2022. Abrams also campaigned in Cuthbert that day. Bloomberg via Getty Images hide caption

Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, during a "One Georgia Tour" campaign event in Atlanta on March 14, 2022. Abrams also campaigned in Cuthbert that day.

Outside Albany, city blocks give way to acres of cotton and peanut crops. An hour up US-82 is the town of Cuthbert, Ga.

Its only hospital closed a few years ago.

"When the hospital closed, it became like a sudden death to us," says Rhonda Jones-Johnson, who used to work as a nurse there. "It broke some of our lives."

This spring, Jones-Johnson spoke alongside Abrams, who held her first formal campaign stop in front of the shuttered hospital. At the event, Jones-Johnson described how her aunt died waiting to access care.

"We had only one ambulance in the county," Jones-Johnson said. "No emergency care. If only we had a hospital open here, I truly believe her life could have been saved."

Both parties are trying to convince voters far from metro Atlanta that they're listening. Republicans, like Gov. Brian Kemp and Senate candidate Herschel Walker, are regularly barnstorming whiter rural counties, rallying their most reliable voters.

Democrats hope to slice into the GOP's margins, particularly in racially diverse rural counties. Warnock has emphasized the plight of rural Black farmers. Abrams prominently highlights rural hospital closures as she pitches her plan to expand Medicaid.

Women listen as U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks in Americus, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Women listen as U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock speaks in Americus, Ga., on Aug. 29, 2022.

Youth organizer Maggie Bell appreciates the specific challenges this region faces. She also says the rural South is more diverse and vibrant than outsiders may imagine.

Bell graduated in the spring from Albany State University, a historically Black college.

"When people think of rural voters, they think of farmers, white people," Bell says, as Albany State's Marching Rams band parades by. "But really, there are Black people down here Black people who want to be part of the election process, but they don't get a knock at their door."

Bell feels the weight of history in Albany, too. In 1961, Black residents in Albany launched what's considered the country's first mass civil rights movement to desegregate an entire city.

Bell says she's optimistic about what can happen as voters in this stretch of Georgia harness their power. And she says campaigns in other states should take note, as Democrats nationwide have struggled to win rural voters.

"Pay attention to these counties," she says. "Because once you engage and mobilize Black and brown people in these counties, you will actually see your work come to fruition."

This fall will be another test. Two months out, Abrams is trailing Kemp in polls. Warnock is slightly ahead of Walker in averages.

Supports cheer for U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock outside his campaign bus in Americus, Ga. Nicole Buchanan for NPR hide caption

Supports cheer for U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock outside his campaign bus in Americus, Ga.

Both races are extremely tight.

On Election Night, cable TV anchors will spend a lot of time zooming in on their touch-screen maps on metro Atlanta, picking apart the returns from counties like Fulton, Cobb, Gwinnett and DeKalb.

But Bell still believes organizers have to work for every vote, especially in counties like hers, and especially in a state where election outcomes have become famously close.

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Adrian Fontes is tired of responding to the outrageous claims of Mark Finchem, a Trump-backed Republican election denier with ties to QAnon. Fontes faces Finchem on the ballot this year for Arizona secretary of state.

Finchem has said that if elected the states chief election official, he would ban early voting, move away from electronic vote counting, and allow state legislators to be able to reject election results. But hes offered little rationale or explanation for his extreme proposals.

He needs to explain himself and hes not doing it, Fontes said. All he does is throw out these crazy theories, these crazy ideas, and nobody is asking him why.

Much of Fontes frustration stems from the fact that he is not running in a typical race for Arizonas top election official. Finchem isnt a traditional Republican who might propose restrictions on voting, but would come to the campaign with explanations for why he believes his policies would protect the integrity of elections.

Instead, Fontes is running against someone who has said without evidence that the 2020 election was rigged and whomarched on the U.S. Capitolon Jan. 6.

Election deniers are running for secretary of state in five critical states across the country, and the Democrats challenging them in November say their campaigns have taken on increased importance.

As Fontes put it, Its a great deal of pressure knowing youre running in a political contest to save the republic.

The stakes are just as high in Nevada, where Democrat Cisco Aguilar is looking to defeat Jim Marchant, an election denier who has parroted former President Donald Trumps voter fraud conspiracies. In Michigan, New Mexico, and Minnesota, incumbent Democratic secretaries of state are seeking reelection against GOP candidates who have said that the 2020 election was not legitimate.

Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat who chairs the Democratic Association of Secretaries of State, said the Democratic candidates are feeling pressure to defeat big lie candidates who support Trumpthose who will suppress the vote, destabilize elections, and push out further lies.

The association has given unprecedented levels of support to candidates this year, due to the high stakes. Before she became chair in 2019, the group had never had any full-time staff and now it employs six people. Its alsoraisedclose to $20 million so far this cycle compared to a previous all-time high of $1.6 million, according to Griswold.

Were doing everything in our power to save democratic institutions, she said.

We have Democratic nominees across the country who will stand up for the fundamental right to vote for every eligible Republican, Democratic, and unaffiliated voter, and were up against people who are telling us that they will tilt elections away from the American people for their own political, partisan gain.

Heres a closer look at how two Democrats are running against election deniers who want to control elections:

Fontes, the Maricopa County recorder from 2017 through 2021, won the Democratic primary in August with more than 52% of the vote. As county recorder in Arizonas most populous county, Fontes enacted significant changesto how Maricopa County runs elections, increasing the number of registered voters by almost 500,000 and setting records in 2020 for the number of early ballots cast.

In 2020, nearly 92% of Maricopa County voters sent in an early ballot.

Though he lost his bid for reelection, Fontes said he would bring some of the lessons he learned as recorder to the secretary of states office.

Im just a county election official who knows how to do this stuff and would be best suited to be Arizonas next secretary of state, he said.

Fontes said hes not pleased that Finchem has drawn so much attention to their race by spewing falsehoods about the election system and proposing radical changes to voting procedures.

Banning ballot by mail when 92% of our voters used it in 2020 and 88% of primary voters, including almost that many Republican primary voters? Its a stupid idea, he said. I mean these are the people who actually vote, and he wants to force them to stand in line? Come on. Thats just dumb. If that isnt clear evidence of poor judgment, I dont know what is.

Finchem has alsocalled for Fontes arrestfor rigging the 2020 election, a contest in which Fontes himself lost reelection. What would the probable cause be? Fontes asked. He needs to explain himself.

Fontes also worries what the future for election administration looks like if those with experience doing the job are pushed away because of threats and harassment and are replaced with people like Finchem who have no experience in elections.

Theres an active campaign to gut election professionals out of the system by the very people who have no justification for doing it in the first place, he said. Theres a systemic brain drain thats happening all across the United States of America.

Cisco Aguilar ran unopposed for the Democratic nomination for Nevada secretary of state and will face Jim Marchant, a former state lawmaker, in November. Aguilar is an attorney who has worked for former Democratic U.S. Sen. Harry Reid and served on the Nevada Athletic Commission.

His first foray into electoral politics has not been an easy one. Aguilar said he lays awake at night worrying about the future of Nevadas elections, given how much is at stake if he were to lose.

This is not a campaign where youre looking at a typical Democratic platform or a Republican platform, he said. What youre looking at is the future of Nevada.

Marchant, like Finchem, has ties to QAnon and continues to claim that Biden did not legitimately win the 2020 election. He also said he would not have certified the election had he been secretary of state at the time.

Marchant has said that if elected, he would get rid of electronic voting machines, vote by mail, and early voting, and would replace electronic vote tabulators with hand counting of paper ballots.

What hes doing is irresponsible and dangerous, Aguilar said. Hes not a serious leader but the threat he represents is extremely serious.

Aguilar takes particular issue with Marchants desire to eliminate early voting, given the makeup of Nevada voters.

We are a 24/7 economy, he said. When you ask somebody to try to limit their opportunity to vote to a single Tuesday in November between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., thats a working shift for many people.

Aguilars campaign has seen an influx in money from both Nevadans and people outside the state concerned about what could happen if Nevada, likely to be a battleground in 2024, has an elections director who believes Trumps big lie he said.

Despite having no primary challengers, Aguilarraised more than $450,000during the second quarter of this year and reported having significantly more cash available than Marchant.

People understand the severity of this campaign, he said. We have to make sure our elections are secure because not only could we hurt Nevada, we could potentially impact the entire country.

Thats what keeps me up at night, he added. We cannot allow somebody to put their finger on the scale for the benefit of him and some other individual at the cost of every citizen in the country.

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As the midterms race closer, Republicans appear to be continuing to gain traction with Latino voters, a key constituency in winning control of Congress in 2022. While Democrats initially denied that such a demographic shift was even taking place, they are now in a desperate scramble to salvage their support among Hispanics.

Perhaps the clearest indicator of Democrats struggles with Hispanics has been President Joe Bidens performance with the group. Though Biden won Hispanics 59%-38% in 2020, that represented a net 17-point decline from Hillary Clintons 66%-28% margin in 2016. Moreover, Bidens approval rating with Hispanics is now hovering below 30%, one of his most dismal ratings among any demographic.

A number of polls over the past several months have also found Democrats only slightly ahead of Republicans in terms of support among Hispanic Americans, a dramatic shift after decades of Democratic candidates reliably earning anywhere from 60-80% of the Latino vote. Though Republicans arent likely to win a majority of the Hispanic vote in 2022 or even 2024, narrowing the gap to within a few points over just a few years is a drastic change given that such shifts often take decades to occur.

One big reason for Republican gains among Latino voters has been the rise of strong Latino candidates in dozens of races throughout the country. In a Texas border district earlier this year, Republican Mayra Flores, a Mexican immigrant, shocked the political world by flipping a U.S. House District that had been held by a Democrat for more than 100 years. In Virginia, Yesli Vega, the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants, is another potential rising star within the party. Many of these candidates have powerful personal stories of overcoming adversity, and their message of preserving economic opportunity and traditional family values for future generations has resonated with voters of all backgrounds.

Republicans are also increasingly talking to Latino voters about issues that matter most to them in particular, the economy. Hispanic Americans consistently rank inflation as their top issue heading into November, an ominous sign for Democrats.

Crime has also continued to be a major concern for Latinos, particularly in the wake of the BLM and Antifa riots of 2020. Latino communities and businesses were some of the hardest hit by the wave of violence that swept through dozens of U.S. cities two summers ago. Some were explicitly threatened by BLM activists. In June 2020, for example, a group of more than 20 businesses in Louisville, Kentucky, many of them Latino-owned, were sent a series of demands ordering them to employ at least 23 percent black staff, buy at least 23 percent of their inventory from black retailers, or make a recurring donation of 1.5 percent of their net sales to a local black charity, lest they be targeted by rioters. One Cuban immigrant and small business owner named Fernando Martinez who spoke out against the intimidation tactic made signs stating, We left Cuba because of socialism. Be careful what you wish for.

A key test of Republicans newfound strength with Latino voters will be in Nevada, where the seat of incumbent Democrat Senator Catherine Cortez-Masto ironically the only Hispanic woman in the Senate is a top GOP target. Latinos comprise nearly 20% of the Nevada electorate, or just above the national average of 19%. Cortez-Masto will likely need to win the Hispanic vote by around a 2-1 margin to stave off Republican challenger Adam Laxalt. While Cortez-Masto currently holds a 3-4 point lead in polling, a wave of disaffected Latinos could hand the race and perhaps control of the Senate to Republicans this fall.

Clearly concerned about a decline in support among Hispanic voters, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus last month announced a six-figure outreach effort aimed at shoring up the Latino vote in November. The campaign, our Lucha or our struggle, is built around a series of YouTube videos that will unpack a variety of topics that matter to our communities.

However, the content of the outreach effort appears only to underscore further why Democrats are losing support with Hispanic voters. The actual videos released by the caucus come across as dismissive and demeaning, labeling conservative-minded Hispanics as crazy. One video asks, Do you have a superstition-loving Abuela or a crazy tio whos always saying crazy things about stuff he heard en la radio? So do we. So, lets talk about it. The videos and other Democratic outreach efforts to Latino voters also routinely use the Latinx label, something which a majority of Hispanic Americans have repeatedly said is out of touch and offensive.

Regardless of the outcome in November, Republicans standing with Latino voters looks stronger than it has in decades. By some estimates, if the GOP is even moderately successful in 2022, the number of Latino House Republicans will increase by 50%. This complicates not only Democrat attempts to hold onto this vital minority group, but also their efforts to dismiss their opponents as militant racists. As Republicans diversify, statistically speaking, Democrats are becoming whiter, more elite, and less connected to the American people than ever before.

Andrew Abbott is the pen name of a writer and public affairs consultant with over a decade of experience in DC at the intersection of politics and culture.

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