It took a voter uprising for the national liberal Latino press to finally report about the “most grave mistake” made by Virginia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, which the same media HID from their viewers prior to his crushing loss: telling parents that they had no role in the education of their children.
Univision underestimated the level of information their audience has and underestimated its ability to influence that. The Latino vote, as Univision correspondent Edwin Pitti acknowledges in a report for Despierta América, “was key this time in giving the victory to the Republican candidate Glenn Youngkin.”
DESPIERTA AMERICA
September 3, 2021
EDWIN PITTI – Good morning Satcha. We mentioned it yesterday in Despierta AméricaThe Latino vote played a key role in this election, giving victory to Glenn Youngkin, Republican candidate for the governorship. This is the first time that a Republican has won the governorship here in Virginia in 12 years. Even though the Democrats appear to be denying their error, many are still puzzled by what they did. Terry McAuliffe committed a grave error over the past few weeks in relation to an issue that is very important for the Latino community. Youngkin criticized him for saying that the Virginia state curriculum should be developed without parents. Youngkin also noted that McAuliffe focused much of his campaign on education, promising higher salaries to teachers.
According to Pitti, the Democrats were left wondering “what mistake they made” to warrant such a crushing defeat. Simple. Tell a Latina mother that her child is not in the education of her children and then run for your freedom. 55% of the Latino vote went to Youngkin, regardless of the Hispanic media’s total blackout of the Loudoun County (Virginia) School Board’s cover-up of two alleged sexual assaults on school grounds by the same student.
As MRC Latino observed in an Oct 14th reportThBlog, The network’s silence about the cover-up and the arrest of the student who sex assaulted two minors stands out in stark contrast with the network’s coverage on the “controversial” arrests of two parents at a Loudoun County school board meeting last summer.
We hope for more honest discussion between the Spanish media and the real issues facing the communities that they serve.
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