Bernie Sanders’s caucus target is Latino voters who are usually overlooked in mostly white Iowa
DES MOINES — For Luis Gomez, community has always meant soccer. Growing up in Mexico, he would tag along with his father as he played with his friends on Sunday mornings. After moving to Iowa, they kept playing together, drawing in new friends.
Sanders’s operation has done far more than his competitors in seeking the support of those voters, having belatedly realized in his 2016 campaign the growing heft of Iowa’s Latino voters — and their attraction to him.It estimates that fewer than 3,000 Latinos participated in the 2016 caucuses overall, and hopes to dramatically increase that number this year.
“But then there’s Bernie, who I relate to a lot,” Garcia said. “I’m just kind of stuck between them.” “It’s not difficult to find pockets in communities where there’s a large population from a certain ethnicity that live in that area, so it’s like: Oh, okay, this is a Latino neighborhood, we’re going to go to every single door here,” she said.
Like many Sanders supporters — Latino and not — Ramirez is in part drawn by his calls for Medicare-for-all and free public education. She is studying to be a nurse at thecommunity college and works full time — 25 hours a week at Starbucks and waitressing at a family restaurant. She pays about $3,000 a semester for tuition, taking out about $1,000 in loans each semester. Her siblings have warned her against taking on debt, but she thinks the investment is worth it.
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