With voters feeling the pain of rising prices, they may take out their frustration on the party in power.
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But with prices rising for everything from gas to food to rent, Villanueva's job with Somos Votantes, a political organization founded in 2019 looking to boost Latino turnout in Nevada and across the country, is as much sounding board for the pain people are feeling as it is organizer.
Somos Votantes founder Melissa Morales acknowledged the pain that that rising prices is inflicting on voters:"It's a real thing." "It's a real thing," Morales said."And if we don't acknowledge what's happening, we sound crazy, right? We sound out of touch, and it doesn't help anybody. Our whole message starts with acknowledging people's economic pain points right now."Somos Votantes is making Nevada the focal point of its campaign, planning to spend half of its national budget on the state.
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