((patrick walker)) libre initiative president daniel garza says the tight race is up for grabs... and hispanic voters will make the difference. a new nbc news/wall street journal poll has the race a statistical tie among latino voters... 43 percent favoring heck... 42 percent favoring cortez masto. but many are criticizing that poll... calling it faulty. that includes artie blanco... nevada director of the progressive group "for our future." ((artie blanco/nevada state director, for our future: "i don'be the latinos that we've been talking to, the latino voters here in las vegas and in washoe, almost 80 percent, or 75-80 percent are supporting catherine cortez masto.")) ((patrick walker)) blanco says the different groups that affiliate with "for our future" have visited nearly 600-thousand homes statewide. ((artie blanco/nevada state director, for our future: 19.11 "we are door-knocking every single day, we've been door-knocking straight since july." 19.16)) ((patrick walker)) and while blanco and garza disagree on how close the race is... both agree that the latino vote will deci

daniel garza told me the group race because of what he called uncertainty about donald trump. ----so he was doing the media rounds today for one reason: to help joe heck win the most important senate race in the country, the one that may determine control. i asked garza if he had sleepless nights as the head of a hispanic group trying to prevent the first latina in history, catherine cortez masto, from being elected. 11:58: "man, i'm being latino community." ----so how much is garza's group doing to try to defeat cortez masto? a lot, they've knocked on 20,000 doors here, made hundreds of thousands of phone calls. in a race that looks very close, in a race where the hispanic vote will be critical, it could make a difference. nevada voters will decide several important ballot issues on november 8th including one that's flying under the radar. backers say... question -4- could save thousands of folks from paying sales tax.... on home medical equipment.... motorized wheelchairs. channel 13 sat down with the man.... behind the initative.... who said.... it's a chance for voters....

este curso que toma la campaÑa polÍtica estÁ con nosotros fernando treviÑo, estratega polÍtico y daniel garzacias por estar con nosotros, querÍa comentar con usted el anÁlisis suyo de lo que ocurre en estos momentos, donald trump a raÍz de estos incidentes ha perdido el apoyo, especialmente entre las mujeres que es tan clave porcentaje de la poblaciÓn que vota. >> sÍ, no, es un tema muy delicado, muy sensible, la cuestiÓn del tratamiento de la mujer, pero tambiÉn hay claras evidencias, ya vemos a lo largo de esta campaÑa que ambos candidatos no se han lucido en cuestiÓn de sus principios, sus valores, Ética personal, creo que han habido lapsos, errores personales que los dos han mostrado, estos correos electrÓnicos que salen de hillary clinton y su equipo que es una mÁquina aplastodora, vemos que manipularon la mÁquina del partido demÓcrata para aplastar a bernie sanders, creo que es una falta de Ética, lo que resta es enfocarse en los dos candidatos, en las ideas, ¿ cÓmo van a gobierno, reducir los impuestos, reformar obamacare y todos los problemas?. >> y la pregunta que le hice, ¿ le estÁ

daniel garza is the organization's executive director. >> you have an influx of puerto ricans that are leaving that economic condition in puerto rico, not because they want to, but because they have to. what you see in puerto rico is starting to happen here. we're on an unsustainable path, a fiscal path here that is going to ruin the next generation. it's important for us to drive that conversation within the puerto rican community here in orlando, because they can make a difference. >> reporter: the current republican nominee has said some pretty controversial things about immigrant communities latino communities. >> to say the least. >> reporter: are you worried at all about what that means for conservative candidates? >> look, we are part of a long- term effort. we focus on ideas. we don't want to see our growth rise and fall based on personality. so we stay away from associating to personalities who we feel there's a lack of enthusiasm around by the latino voters. we see a lack of enthusiasm around both candidates, to be honest. >> reporter: president obama carried florida in both

next to her, we have danielle garza who is the director of initiative. he's also a white house official under president george w. bush. and immediately to my right is linda chaz vez who's the president of the institute. well-known indicated columnist and white house official in the reagan white house. so a number of different republican administrations here. i was thinking as we're getting ready for this panel about the ark of the republican party and republican white house on this issue. and it reminded me in a previous job being in the white house on a thursday morning in early saept 2001. >> one of the true points on immigration reform. and then low and behold, that was a thursday afternoon in the next tuesday morning which was equally beautiful here in washington. we had smoke coming up from the pentagon and the attacks on the world trade center. and that was the i think in some respects the end or dramatic change to that chapter in the immigration reform discussion, but it's interesting because hopes were so high at that time and then now we have th