Billionaire and former presidential candidate Mike Bloomberg has donated $500,000 to Voto Latino to help register more Latinos to vote and get them to the polls. - NBCLatino
Those young Latinos who have come of age since the 2016 election"heard the president call their loved ones criminals and rapists," Kumar said."This election will be a referendum on the politics of hate and divisiveness."
Kumar said Bloomberg's donation will help pay the costs of registering 500,000 new voters this election cycle. That's part of a larger effort to register and get to the polls 1 million Latino voters in Arizona, Florida, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wisconsin and other key states ahead of November.
In addition to registering Latinos to vote, Voto Latino runs get-out-the-vote operations that include paying for rides for voters on Election Day and leadership summits for young Latinos. Voto Latino started the year with $3.5 million cash on hand and has raised $11 million to register Latino voters, Kumar said.and $1 million from an anonymous donor. Kumar said she's seeking $4 million more.
An estimated 32 million Latinos are eligible to vote in 2020. This will be the first year Hispanics make up the largest non-white population of eligible voters. But Latinos have lower turnout rates than black and white voters.
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