Latino Democrats launch super PAC to tackle party's problem with key group
A pair of influential Latino Democrats are teaming up to launch a new super PAC to mobilize Latino voters in support of Democratic candidates after the party suffered major slippage with the key voting bloc in recent election cycles.
Former congressman Tony Cárdenas (D-California) and Chuck Rocha, a longtime Democratic strategist who served as an adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vermont) presidential bids and Sen. Ruben Gallego's (D-Arizona) Senate campaign, are starting Campeones PAC — which means champion in Spanish — in response to their party's challenges with Latino voters.
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