Mauricio D'Alessandro, un argentino residente del país del norte quien será veedor electoral, habla sobre la estrategia del Partido Demócrata para aumentar la participación y cómo el nivel de actividad en los centros de votación puede indicar qué partido está teniendo éxito. También destaca el creciente número de latinos que estudian en universidades y cómo esto podría afectar el panorama político.
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00:00Yes, indeed. We are on our way to a voting center right now.
00:06Yes.
00:07And...
00:08But you don't vote.
00:09There are several...
00:10No, no, I don't vote, but I'm a voter. I'm registered as a voter.
00:14Ah, look, that's good. Tell us, tell us that. Why are you a voter, Mauricio?
00:18Well, I just joined a delegation many years ago from an American studies center.
00:23I've been coming since 2007.
00:25Yes.
00:26This is my third time voting, but it's just out of curiosity.
00:34It doesn't have any other implication.
00:37No, well, but it's great.
00:38This is an election.
00:39Yes.
00:40An election where there is less fervor in the street,
00:43even though it is supposed to be voting a lot more people than what usually happens.
00:48It is a strategy of the Democratic Party to try to get more people to vote.
00:55And it has promoted, through that, the voting, at least here in Washington, D.C.,
01:03and in the states that surround it.
01:07Because it is known that Washington, the District of Columbia,
01:12is a very small space surrounded by three states where people also vote, obviously, today.
01:20Of course. And let's remember that it is also a system of electors.
01:23It is not a direct election.
01:24Now, what is the system like?
01:26Are there schools, too, in clubs?
01:28Is it like here, the voting reference points?
01:32It is quite similar, with the difference, much less cardboarded.
01:37There is no problem of inspection.
01:39Although, generally, there are people from both parties,
01:43the particularity is that they have posters,
01:46they put posters outside the voting place.
01:50It is as if the posters are allowed almost inside the place where you vote.
01:58And they are a kind of cardboard boxes where the machine is to vote.
02:04Of course.
02:05They are not classrooms.
02:07Generally, if it is a school, a gym, or an open space, an open classroom,
02:15where these kinds of precarious cardboard boxes are established,
02:21with a computer, where people vote.
02:25Mauricio, does a particular place touch you?
02:27Or do you have to see different places, like Bedor?
02:31At this moment, I am going to the first of the places, which is in Madigan,
02:35about 15 minutes from the center of Washington.
02:39And there we have the first place to observe.
02:45And what do you do? You arrive, you introduce yourself?
02:49A particularity, sorry to say,
02:51is that yesterday, when we were in the Capitol,
02:54in the office of a representative, particularly of Representative Salazar,
03:00a representative from Miami,
03:04and many of her advisers were there.
03:08We asked her why they were not on the street.
03:11In Argentina, they would be distributing tickets, giving tickets.
03:14And the answer was that they did not consider it necessary.
03:19As they had decided in some districts in particular,
03:24mainly in Florida, not to insist on the campaign,
03:28because the people were saturated and it was not necessary,
03:32given the advantage that the Republicans had in those states.
03:37It caught my attention a lot.
03:39Aha, look, they are particularities.
03:41Now, is it known or can it be foreseen
03:44at what time we will have the name of the new president of the United States?
03:50Or will we have to wait until tomorrow?
03:52In virtue of how they come so even.
03:56The forecasts are that it will be quite late.
04:00Quite late.
04:02The place where I have always been,
04:06where I have always been with some anticipation,
04:09is the Center of Democratic Women,
04:12which is in front of the Argentine Embassy in Washington.
04:16Why? For some reason, surely, because there is ...
04:20Well, that had a special boom when Hillary was a candidate.
04:24But that's where one has the pulse.
04:27If there are many cameras,
04:29if there are many people coming in and out,
04:31if the Democrats are doing well,
04:33if the place is desolate, as it happened in 2016,
04:36it is that the Republicans win.
04:38Aha.
04:39And what do you think, Inspector,
04:41because of the information, the friendships you have in the United States,
04:44are you going to play it?
04:47Yes, yes, I think it's even,
04:50but I understand that Donald Trump, as they say here,
04:54will make the difference, will give the feeling.
04:58In the swing states, in those seven states that are definitive,
05:01especially Pennsylvania?
05:04Yes, yes.
05:06In addition, always and generally,
05:09this feeling for the American is very important,
05:12the idea of feeling the power, right?
05:16This idea that what the people perceive as the most powerful
05:20is the one that ends up winning.
05:22And the reality is that,
05:24despite all the time,
05:27the years that also happen to him and others,
05:30he has always been seen as someone very powerful, right?
05:33Even now, it seems that he has resisted
05:36even a death attack.
05:38Mauricio, is Trump's guilty vote shameful?
05:41Of many people who don't say it, but end up voting for him?
05:46I have two children here,
05:48one of them,
05:50clearly a Democrat,
05:5220 years ago he lived here,
05:54and for the first time I have seen him hesitate.
05:58I think that,
06:00despite the fact that the economy,
06:02look, yesterday was part of the discussion in the Capitol,
06:05because an advisor from Salazar said
06:09that the economy had been a disaster,
06:12and a member of the delegation,
06:14who is an expert in economics,
06:16said, he rejected it with numbers, right?
06:20The economy has not been,
06:22and there has been inflation,
06:24but the economic performance of Biden has not been bad,
06:29and also many people think
06:32that there has been an escalation of violence in the world.
06:37But, nevertheless,
06:39people understand,
06:42they continue to complain,
06:44numbers say one thing,
06:46but people say another.
06:48Mauricio, there is a curiosity.
06:50Mauricio, I'm Lucio, how are you? Good morning.
06:52Hi Lucio, how are you?
06:54Good, good, nice to greet you.
06:56There is a curiosity that particularly catches my attention,
06:58of which the United States had escaped.
07:00The United States used to have continuities,
07:02it used to have re-elections.
07:04It won a candidate, Democrat, Republican,
07:06and then it was re-elected.
07:08Clinton, Bush himself.
07:12Yes, yes.
07:14Mazzotti, Barack Obama.
07:18If you win Trump,
07:20you would have alternations, right?
07:22It would be Trump, Republican,
07:24Biden, Democrat,
07:26Trump back.
07:28Renewal rates are quite scarce,
07:30after the period ...
07:32Of course.
07:34In San Blanco, what you say,
07:36that the numbers say one thing,
07:38but the dissatisfaction of society
07:40goes the other way and generates another vote.
07:42Yes, this idea of the deep United States,
07:46where Donald Trump told them
07:48that they were important,
07:50that they were worth it,
07:52that that silent white majority ...
07:54In one of the interviews
07:56we had at the Pew,
07:58which is the most important
08:00Washington Post poll institute,
08:02something caught my attention.
08:04Of every four Americans,
08:06three study university degrees.
08:08A very high proportion.
08:10But within that very high proportion,
08:12the ones who are most likely
08:14to be elected,
08:16a very high proportion,
08:18the ones who study mostly
08:20are not the American WASP,
08:22the white Anglo-Saxons.
08:24Yes, white Anglo-Saxons.
08:26They are not them.
08:28They are the Latinos.
08:30That is, they are the Latinos
08:32and the African Americans
08:34who complete the majority
08:36of people studying
08:38at the university.
08:40That is, that white majority
08:42of the interior
08:44of the U.S.
08:46has been left behind
08:48and has also been disengaged
08:50from the process
08:52of social ascent.
08:54And it makes you feel, right?
08:56It makes you feel a lot.
08:58Mauricio, there is a feeling ...
09:00Before you said, well,
09:02you go to the United States
09:04with effort, with work,
09:06you get ahead.
09:08Like that costs more
09:10than previous years?
09:12Yes, at least 50% more
09:14than three or four years ago.
09:16And that makes you feel.
09:18They have been improving
09:20their careers.
09:22They all studied at the university
09:24and then they did an MBA,
09:26which is a kind of postgraduate,
09:28and they have been improving
09:30their salary a lot
09:32because this is like a career
09:34where you advance almost automatically.
09:36But they still feel it.
09:38Especially the second of them
09:40that that discontent
09:42is present.
09:44And the criterion at the time of the vote
09:46mostly has to do
09:48with the pocket, right?
09:50Yes, there is also ...
09:52It is the stupid economy,
09:54as Clinton's advisor said
09:56at the time.
09:58And a topic that is still important
10:00for them has to do
10:02with issues,
10:04at least for the greatest.
10:06They all have to do with social programs.
10:08There is also
10:10an important point.
10:12Historically,
10:14the Democrats
10:16benefited more
10:18from people
10:20with less resources, with social programs.
10:22The Republicans cut taxes.
10:24Kamala Harris's platform
10:28has about 440 pages.
10:30As you already know,
10:32and surely you have been informed,
10:34it covers issues that have to do
10:36with abortion, very minor issues.
10:38Not only does the president vote,
10:40but some issues are voted
10:42in some states,
10:44particularly in Miami,
10:46in Florida, which is what I looked at.
10:48The little piece of paper I looked at
10:50tells you ...
10:52Issues are voted
10:54that have a lot to do
10:56with the expectation
10:58of a certain life, right?
11:00To live better or more
11:02social assistance or more help.
11:04Issues like abortion,
11:06as I said.
11:08And in that,
11:10those who are not ...
11:12everything that is
11:14the immigrants,
11:16they become proclives
11:18to vote for Kamala.
11:20Mauricio, it has been a pleasure
11:22to talk to you,
11:24and we will probably communicate
11:26tomorrow with the president.
11:28Because it must be said that Trump
11:30has sown a little distrust,
11:32he was going to say
11:34that he was stolen back,
11:36but hey, let's see what happens.
11:38If this time what happens happens,
11:40if he wins, ready.
11:42If it is not defined,
11:44Trump is to get nervous
11:46in this context, right?
11:48He's a capricious boy.
11:50He's a little boy.
11:52A hug, Mauricio.