More than words needed with Latino voters - Jorge Ramos

I recently had an interview with Obama and asked why he thought he lost the Latino vote to Clinton.

“You know, I think it really just had to do with the fact that the Latino vote was less familiar with me than they are with Senator Clinton,” Obama said. They were not aware, he said, of his work with the Latino community in Chicago, or that he backed efforts to legalize undocumented immigrants and to improve education programs.

However, what many Latinos do know is that as a member of the Senate, Obama voted for construction of a 700-mile fence along the border with Mexico. “If you become president, would you stop the construction of the fence?” I asked.”*

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