>> OFTEN >> REFERRED TO AS A SLEEPING GIANT.

LATINO VOTERS ARE THE SECOND FASTEST GROWING VOTING BLOCK IN THE U.S. PEW RESEARCH CENTER ESTIMATES NEARLY 36 MILLION LATINOS ARE ELIGIBLE TO VOTE THIS YEAR.

AND ACCORDING TO A NEW POLL IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, LATINO VOTERS FAVOR FORMER PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP OVER PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN IN THE UPCOMING ELECTION.

JOINING US NOW WITH MORE OUR SAMANTHA GOT SCOTT GAS COSTS, REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE FOR ILLINOIS, 19 SENATE DISTRICT, WHICH INCLUDES TINLEY PARK AND SURROUNDING AREAS.

AND JAIME DOMINGUEZ, A POLITICAL SCIENCE PROFESSOR AT NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY.

THANK YOU BOTH FOR JOINING US.

CAN YOU CORRECT ME WITH YOUR LAST NAME?

I'M PRETTY SURE.

UP A LITTLE GAS TO MAKE SURE WANT TO GO STRAIGHT TO YOU.

THERE'S BEEN TALK OF A RIGHTWARD SHIFT IN LATINO VOTERS.

>> HOW DO YOU SEE THIS?

>> OVER IT'S NOT THAT THEY GET THAT.

THEY'RE WATERS WALKING OVER TO TO REPUBLICAN CAMP AND ROAD IS THAT IS AN ACCURATE YOU FIND IT IS GRADUAL INCREASE >> MALE, LET YOU KNOW WATER'S PERHAPS SUPPORTING TRUMP HIS PLATFORM.

YOU KNOW, WE JUST KNOW THAT WE'RE LET YOU KNOW IN TERMS JUST PROBABLY HAVE BECAUSE LAST PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, WE SEE, FACT WANT TO STILL SUPPORT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

I THINK WHAT HAS HAPPENED IN THAT THAT IT'S MORE ABOUT WHAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND PARTICULARLY PRESIDENT BIDEN HAD DONE MORE BUT THREAT FORMER PRESIDENT TRUMP IS SAYING SO.

I FOR EXAMPLE, ONE THING THAT THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY DOING, THERE'S STILL PLENTY OF TIME BETWEEN NOW AND NOVEMBER TO BE BRIEF THEIR MESSAGING AROUND THE NARRATIVE ABOUT WHAT IS LIKE?

YOU KNOW, VOTER LIKE, YOU KNOW, VOTER WHAT EVERY OTHER VOTER WANTS BURY ITS, YOU KNOW, JOBS, THE ECONOMY AND HEALTH CARE.

SO I THINK THE LAST ONE OF THE POLICY HEALTH CARE, THAT'S VERY, VERY IMPORTANT.

I JUST LIKE A LITTLE BIT TO THE THAT THE DEMOCRATS.

41, WHEN IT COMES HEALTH CARE ALSO REPRODUCTIVE THAT COULD BE A WINNING FOR DEMOCRATS.

MORE OF YOUR RECENT A RECENT POLL WE NEED THOSE US SHOW FACT THAT OR 70% OF APPEALS ACTUALLY SUPPORT RIGHT TO REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS THAT ABORTION SHOULD >> AND JAIME, IT'S INTERESTING, AS YOU SAID, A WAR THAT POPPED OUT TO ME REFRAINING.

AND SAMANTHA, I WANT TO GO TO YOUR HALF.

EXECUTING RECENTLY SECURED THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR THE 19 DISTRICT SENATE SEAT.

WHAT DO YOU SEE ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT ARE DRIVING LATINO VOTERS?

>> I WOULD SAY YES, I'M I'M I'M THE PROJECTED WINNER.

SO THAT'S I WOULD I WOULD SAY THAT SOME THINGS THAT ARE DRIVING LAW, TAKE LATINO VOTERS.

THERE'S THIS HUGE PUSH.

MASCULINITY.

AND CERTAIN TYPE OF MASCULINITY IN THE MEXICAN POLICE AND THE MEXICAN CULTURE.

I GREW UP IN LIKE MY MUCH A SMALL, STRONG.

THAT'S HOW IT COMES ACROSS.

AND I THINK THAT SOMETIMES MAYBE THAT'S WHAT THEY SEE AS OPPOSED TO WISHY-WASHY CAUSE WISHY-WASHY DOESN'T GET YOU ANYWHERE.

YOU HAVE TO STAND THINK THAT THE LATINO VOTERS, A REPUBLICAN WAS BELIEVE THAT DONALD TRUMP THE STRONGER CANDIDATE.

>> FOR THESE ISSUES.

>> I THINK IN THE LATINO THAT I'VE SPOKEN TO SPECIFICALLY, I THINK THAT THAT IS >> ISSUE FOR THEM THAT ILLEGAL AND ALSO HOW THEIR CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS.

I THINK THAT'S A BIG THING BECAUSE AS FAR WHAT I CAN FROM WHERE A TRADITIONAL PEOPLE.

SO, YOU KNOW, THE WAY THAT LOOK AT OUR FAITH IS LIKE A WHOLE LIFE EXPERIENCE LIKE EVERY DECISION WE MAKE IS FILTERED THROUGH THAT.

AND THAT'S THAT'S THE ULTIMATE TRUMP IS MORE TRADITIONAL.

I'M I WOULD SAY THAT THE POLICIES THAT HE INSTITUTES OUR MORE TRADITIONAL IN NATURE.

>> I MEAN, WHAT ARE YOUR WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER SIDE OF THE AISLE?

WHY DO DEMOCRATS FEEL THE TRUMP IS NOT THE ANSWER ON THESE ISSUES?

>> WELL, I JUST THINK THEY'RE THEY'RE 2 DIFFERENT PARTIES.

YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT INTRODUCE DEMOCRATIC PARTY ALTHOUGH TATTOO MORE FUN, ALTHOUGH WE DIDN'T HAVE DISCUSSION ABOUT AND I I DON'T I DON'T THINK IT'S ABOUT THAT.

SOMEHOW THE REPUBLICAN PARTY RESENTED SOMETHING.

ESSENTIALLY A OF IMMIGRATION.

I THINK THAT'S KIND WE'RE GOING TO COME YOU ELECTORATE OR THE CAUSE INTEREST.

IF YOU JUST GO BACK AND GO BACK YEARS AND THE EVERY POLL, IMMIGRATION ACTUALLY IS LIKE THE 4TH OR 5TH TO PRIORITIES.

FOR WE CAN HAVE A DEBATE DEAL, FOR EXAMPLE, THE ISSUE OF THE BORDER MATTER, THAT IS A PRETTY MATTERS TO EVERYBODY, NOT JUST TO LET YOU KNOW.

SO I THINK THERE COULD BE DIFFERENCES IN TERMS OF THE APPROACH TO THE IMPLEMENTATION, PERHAPS IMMIGRATION POLICY OR VISIT.

BUT FOR EXAMPLE, WOULD BE THAT WAS AT ODDS WITH YOU KNOW, GREAT.

AND I WOULD SAY NOT THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT GREAT A BIG CHUNK OF IT WAYS IN WHICH IN THE LAST ADMINISTRATION THE WAY THAT PRESIDENT, PRESIDENT TRUMP DOWN THE SEPARATION OF FAMILIES, RIGHT.

BUT AGAIN, I I WANT TO JUST CIRCLE BACK AROUND IT.

BUT I THINK THIS IS BASICALLY AN OPPORTUNITY FOR BOTH.

THEY'RE PARTIES AND I GET IT THAT, YOU KNOW, WHETHER OR YOU KNOW, GOING FOR DEMOCRATS SUPPORT OF SHARE WITH REPUBLICANS THAT JUST SPEAKS TO THE HEAD QAEDA, DIVERSITY THIS POPULATION.

NATIONAL ORGAN IMMIGRATION EXPERIENCE ALONG LANGUAGE ASSOCIATED SURPRISING, RIGHT THAT LET YOU KNOW, THEY'RE ALL PRETTY MUCH ALONG THE ENTIRE PUBLIC POLICY SO IT'S JUST A MATTER OF CAN THESE 2 CANDIDATES GOING FORWARD RIGHT MADE THAT ISSUE ARE THOSE ISSUES IT WAS SO THAT THEY THEN A GAUGE OF BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT ENGAGEMENT IS VERY KEY HERE BECAUSE GIVES COMFORT TO NOT LET YOU KNOW GETS PAID TO PARTICIPATE OR RATE.

THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT THEY'RE NOT INTERESTED BECAUSE, IN FACT, WE JUST LOOK AT.

>> THE LAST 4 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION SIDE.

PARTICULAR WE JUST LOOK AT PERIOD BETWEEN 2016 20, THE NUMBER OF VOTES CAST BY THAT, YOU KNOW, YES.

>> I WANT THANK YOU FOR THOSE FACTS.

I WANT TO BRING SAMANTHA AND ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.

YOU KNOW, SAMANTHA.

DESPITE SOME OF TRUMP'S OFFENSIVE OF RHETORIC TOWARDS IMMIGRANT AND LATINO COMMUNITIES.

I THINK THOSE ARE STILL SUPPORTING TRUMP AND GIVING THEM THEIR VOTE.

CAN YOU JUST TELL ME A LITTLE BIT WHY WHAT SEEING YOU'RE SAYING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU SPEAKING WITH THE COMMUNITY, WHAT WHAT ARE YOU HEARING?

RIGHT?

AND I'M NOT HERE TO DEFEND THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY AND LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP IS A WHOLE.

>> I'M AN INDIVIDUAL ON RUNNING FOR MY SPECIFIC STAY OFFICE.

SO I FIND EVERYTHING THAT ANY PERSON DIES ACCEPT JESUS CHRIST BY EVERY PERSON HAS THEIR FAULTS.

IF YOU COULD REPEAT THAT, WHAT ACTUALLY MY FIRST THOUGHT THAT COMES TO MIND IS AS WE'RE SPEAKING WITH THE IMMIGRATION POLICIES ALLOWING PEOPLE TO COME ACROSS THE BORDER.

THIS IS ONE OF THE HOTBEDS FIRST FOR THE DISTRIBUTION OF MINORS FOR THE PURPOSES OF TRAFFICKING.

SO WE'RE LEARNING A TON UNDOCUMENTED CHILDREN COME ACROSS THE BORDER WHO, QUOTE ON, QUOTE, NOBODY CARES ABOUT.

YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I MEAN, I CARE ABOUT THAT.

A LOT OF US CARE ABOUT IT.

BUT DO WE CARE ENOUGH TO DO ANYTHING?

AND, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO ASK ONLY HAVE TIME FOR ONE LAST QUESTION.

I WANT TO GO TO YOU, SAMANTHA.

WHAT TYPE OF POLITICAL OUTREACH HAVE YOU IMPLEMENTED TOWARDS LATINO VOTERS?

>> WHAT ARE THE VALUES THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS THAT MATTER TO YOU?

>> WELL, WOULD SAY.

THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

I WOULD SAY COMPASSION AND LOVE IS MY NUMBER ONE.

PAYING LIKE I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I HONOR GUY TO MY CAMPAIGN AND THAT I HONOR THE VOTERS.

I DON'T TRY TO PUSH MY BELIEFS ON OTHER PEOPLE, BUT I WILL SAY THAT IT'S PROBABLY A LOT OF PEACE AND A LOT OF COMFORT AND A LOT OF LOVE THAT I HELP OTHERS WITH BECAUSE I'M ACTUALLY A SURVIVOR OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND ABUSE.

THINGS MEANT FOR SURE.

YEAH.

YOU BOTH FOR YOUR