>> THIS WEEK'S ILLINOIS PRIMARY ELECTION SAW A NUMBER OF INTERESTING DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING LATINO LEADERSHIP IN STATE AND LOCAL POLITICS.

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AMANDA, LET'S GET TO IT.

WHAT THIS TUESDAY PRIMARIES SAY ABOUT LATINO REPRESENTATION?

>> WELL, SAYS, I THINK THAT WE'RE STILL SORT OF FIGURING THIS OUT.

WE KNOW THAT TURN OUT WAS DISMAL ACROSS THE BOARD AND THAT HOLDS TRUE AS WELL.

WE BELIEVE FOR LATINO VOTERS, WHITE VOTERS, BLACK VOTERS, VOTERS IN GENERAL CLEARLY DID NOT COME OUT ON TUESDAY.

BUT WE KNOW THAT INCREASINGLY THERE ARE GOING TO BE MORE LATINOS WHO ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE.

THE ILLINOIS LATINO FROM THE THE LATINO POLICY FORUM THAT IS DID STUDY AND REALLY LOOKED AT SORT OF SOME OF THE CENSUS NUMBERS AND FOUND THAT 400,000 MORE ELIGIBLE LATINO VOTERS IN 2020, THEN THERE WERE IN 2010 AND THAT IS ONLY GOING TO CONTINUE TO CHANGE BECAUSE THERE IS A VERY YOUNG POPULATION OF LATINOS.

SO AND AS THEY GROW UP AND BECOME VOTING AGE, THOSE NUMBERS ARE GOING TO INCREASE.

SO PRESUMABLY THAT IS GOING TO LEAD TO MORE LATINO POWER AT THE POLLS ARE REALLY COUNTING ON THOSE PEOPLE TO COME OUT AND VOTE.

NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT CIRCUIT COURT CLERK, IRIS MARTINEZ, LOSING.

>> WELL, SO THIS IS SORT OF THE REVERSE OF THAT.

I GUESS YOU MIGHT SAY.

SO.

THE LATINO POLICY FORUM CONVENES WHAT'S CALLED THE ILLINOIS LATINO AGENDA.

AND I'M TOLD THAT THE LATINO AGENDA HAD MEETING WITH THE HEAD OF THE COOK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND HAD STRESSED THAT THEY REALLY BELIEVE THAT THERE NEEDED TO BE ENDORSEMENTS FROM THIS POWERFUL BODY FOR SOME OF THEIR OFFICES.

AND THAT INCLUDED ONE THAT HE'S HELD BY IRIS MARTINEZ WHO HAD BEEN SERVING AS THE COOK COUNTY COURT CLERK.

INSTEAD IN THIS IS SOMETHING THAT IS FAIRLY RARE IN GENERAL, THE COOK COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY DIDN'T GO WITH THE INCUMBENT, DID NOT GO WITH MARTINEZ.

SO WHERE THE WAS ARE LOOKING TO LOOK GOING FORWARD.

BUT REALLY, I THINK THE RESULT OF THIS GO BACKWARD IN TERMS OF WHAT HAPPENED THERE OR WHATEVER THE INTERNAL MACHINATIONS WERE AT THE THOSE LETTERS OF SORT OF THE COOK COUNTY MACHINE, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

>> AND WHY THEY CHOSE TO NOT GET BEHIND MARTINEZ.

SHE DID LOSE AND HER FOLKS REALLY DO POINTS TO THE POWER OF THAT PARTY.

IT HAS TO DO WITH MONEY.

IT HAS TO DO IS SORT OF THE ARMY THAT GOES BEHIND.

KNOCKS ON DOORS, GETS PEOPLE TO VOTE.

AND LATER, I KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE HAVING THE DISCUSSION AS WELL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN JUDICIAL RACES AND REPRESENTATION IN THAT 3RD BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT.

BUT ALSO FRUSTRATION ON THE PART OF THESE LATINO LEADERS THAT NOT ONLY SOMEBODY WHO THEY SAY THIS WAS AN ACT BECAUSE MARTINEZ HAD THEN IN MANY OFFICES FOR A VERY LONG TIME, PROVEN WORTH TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY THAT SHE WAS EXCITED, BUT ALSO JUSTICE JUDGE JESSE RAY HAS WHO HAD RUNNING FOR THE ILLINOIS SUPREME SAYS IS A LATINO FRONT SPLIT.

NOW.

I WANT TO GO TO THE NEXT QUESTION.

WHAT ABOUT STA'S LEGISLATION RACES?

WELL, SO THIS IS ONE WHERE WE REALLY WANT TO KEY ON HIGH-PROFILE RACE.

ALL A LOT OF MONEY WAS SPENT TIME TALKING WELL OVER 2 MILLION DOLLARS, WHICH A LOT OF MONEY SOME LITTLE DISTRICT CHICAGO.

AND THAT IS THE 20TH DISTRICT THAT HE'S BEEN CURRENTLY REPRESENTED BY STATE SENATOR NATALIE TORO.

SHE WAS APPOINTED OVER THE SUMMER TO FILL A SPOT THAT COME ACTUALLY SENATOR KRISTINA PAST YOAN ISAIAS HAD LEFT TO GO WORK FOR MAYOR BRANDON JOHNSON ADMINISTRATION.

SHE CAMPAIGNED FOR AND YOU SAW HER HAVING THE BACKING OF THE SENATE DEMOCRATS, BUT THE PROGRESSIVE WING OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WANT TO CROSS THE AISLE AND GUZMAN AND SHE REALLY PREVAILED IN THIS RACE.

AND SO AGAIN, THE LEAD TEAM KNOWS THAT I SPOKE WITH IN SOME OF THE LATINO LEADERSHIP SAY THAT ONCE UPON A TIME THEY WERE REALLY FIGHTING FOR THERE TO BE ANYBODY IN ANY OF THE SEATS ARE CONTESTS.

AND THIS IS THE SEAT, BY THE WAY, INTERESTINGLY, THAT HAVE BEEN TOLD BY IRIS MARTINEZ THEY HAVE BEEN FIGHTING FOR THAT.

AND NOW THERE 2 WELL QUALIFIED INDIVIDUALS THAT WERE CAMPAIGNING.

AND THEY SAY THAT THAT IS FOR SURE PROGRESS.

AND WE ONLY HAVE TIME FOR LAST QUESTION.

IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN REALLY TAKE AWAY FROM TODAY'S TUESDAY'S RESULTS OR IS IT MORE COMPLICATED THAN THAT?

I IT'S COMPLICATED AS WE TALKED ABOUT IN TERMS OF ALL THESE SORT OF ON POLITICAL MACHINATIONS AND ALLIES, IT GOES, OF COURSE, BEYOND BEING LED TEEN OTHERS RELATIONSHIPS.

THERE'S SO MUCH THERE.

BUT AS I NOTED, THERE IS GOING TO BE, I THINK THEY INCREASING LATINO POWER.

AND THEN WE ALSO HAVE TO TALK ABOUT CHRISTINA PAST KNEES.

I WHO VACATED STATE SENATE SEAT BECAUSE AS YOU TALKED ABOUT EARLIER, SHE IS NOW GOING TO BE SERVING IN A