It might be too late for Democrats to win back Latinos in Pennsylvania

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72% : In Reading, for instance, President Joe Biden won most precincts in the Latino inner-city with a healthy 50 percent lead -- but, in those same precincts, turnout for Trump increased by as much as 28 percent compared to his 2016 results.
67% : Right now, Democrats are hopeful that they've gotten a last minute boost with Latinos -- courtesy of Trump himself.
62% : And Trump is taking advantage of that.
61% : Today, that downtown office has a new tenant: Trump 2024.
61% : Every Latino vote Trump manages to win in places like Reading brings him closer to winning the state, and with it the White House.
57% : "When Trump came to Reading in early October for a rally, Rivera -- the only Latino elected official in the local GOP -- took the stage before him.
55% : In Reading, Morán listed off recent Republican visits: A week before we talked, Trump had held a rally at the downtown Santander Arena, which had attendees lining up around the block.
51% : But that's not why Trump did so well in 2020.
49% : In 2020, the predominantly white periphery of the county voted heavily for Trump, while the Latino city proper went overwhelmingly for Biden.
48% : But a recent, rare poll of Latinos in Pennsylvania from Equis Research found that Harris leads Trump 55-36 in the state.
48% : This year, both campaigns are back pushing their advantages: Harris, campaigning with anti-Trump conservatives like Liz Cheney, is making a play for tony suburbs that once voted Republican; Trump, meanwhile, is making a play for Latinos.Cepeda-Freytiz, for her part, said that Latinos in Reading are still winnable -- there could have been more votes here, if Democrats had been willing to fight for them.
47% : Now, the Trump campaign is back with a vengeance, trying to capitalize on that momentum.Democrats' hope is that enough Latinos still consider Trump, and the Republicans, to be bigoted -- polls still consistently show that Latinos consider Democrats the more welcoming party.
46% : The city entered Act 47, Pennsylvania's program for bankrupt cities.
45% : In an election that could easily come down to thousands of votes in Pennsylvania, Trump doesn't need to win a majority of Latinos -- he just needs to shrink Democrats' margin of victory.
42% : Trump promised to lower the cost of housing, gas and groceries.
42% : The surrounding suburbs all got bluer, shifting toward Biden (some by double digits), while the Latino inner city shifted toward Trump.
39% : Overall, Berks County went for Trump with 53.4 percent of the vote over Biden's 45.2 percent.
37% : But Perez said that those cultural issues don't explain why Trump improved among Latinos here in 2020, or why the pastor predicts he'll do well in 2024.
35% : Instead, Trump made gains with Latinos for the same reason he performed so well with white voters in factory towns across Pennsylvania in 2016: economic anxiety.
15% : At an irreverent rally in Madison Square Garden in New York this weekend, a comedian pumping up the crowd for Trump called Puerto Rico "an island of garbage."

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