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joining me now to discuss a democratic congressman ruben gallego of arizona.campaign arm of the hispanic american caucus. let's going over those statistics. in 2018 in the midterms 69% of hispanic voters voted for democratic house candidates. why do you think we're seeing this shift from some hispanic voters away from the democratic party? >> look, i think you're going to see some shifts but right now all we're seeing is that we are pretty close to hitting 2018 numbers with hispanic voters. there is of course some headwind, we have a very hard economic situation for working class latino families, but overall, you know, we have latinos running in some very competitive seats and what we've seen so far, again, latinos are ready to vote for democrats. maybe not the highest level we have ever had, 22 was a pretty high level, but we are still pretty on track to hit the numbers we need to hit. >> how much of a factor is the border crisis for latino voters, specifically those that are living there in the south along border states? >> i mean, it can be for them, but we

. >> earlier i spoke with congressman ruben gallego and he's on the ballot as well.lked about the most pressing issues among voters and hispanic shvoters as well. you were visiting nevada and arizona. what are you hearing from voters? >> well people are hurting so much out there economically. and you talk to people who say they've taken on second jobs, that their cutting all of these costs and having trouble covering the bills so when you ask them about things like the inflation reduction act, which democrats are touting in these closing weeks, a lot of people say well i'm not feeling anything yet. and they -- some of them even laugh when you mention the name of that act. they say where is the reduction. so peepople are really hurting d it is a sour mood out there and that is a huge challenge for democrats in the final weeks. republicans haven't really offered much in terms of what their plans are to actually help people. but they are managing to hammer the democrats in these ads blaming inflation on the biden administration and democrats and people are just really s

ruben gallego wants to recall u.s. patriot missile defense systems from the country.ons entirely and yesterday introduced a new bill mirroring a prior republican effort tom malinowski yesterday introduced a new bill mirroring a prior republican efforts to withdraw 5000 troops from the region telling cnbc that u.s. support for the kingdom's defense should not be seen as unconditional. >> right now i think they count on us to always protect the relationship from the consequences of their base of their misbehavior. they never ask a question of should we do this. should we murder a washington post journalist. should we spike the price of oil. after all, the united states provides us with security. they are an important partner. >> they also wants to know why president biden to the crown prince in person and with the u.s. actually achieved on that >> california progressive said he wants rhett mcgurk, the head of middle east policy to testify before congress. he convinced the president to go over others objections. with congress out of session delaying any possible legislat

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