US politicos woo Latino voters, often with grating Spanish

MIAMI: The Democratic presidential hopefuls in Miami this week talked tax rates and immigration in Spanish while across town Republicans touted their"Latinos for Trump" campaign.

The Democratic candidates have been dropping in on Univision, the country's largest provider of Spanish-language content, to talk policy over tacos.The first debate on Wednesday - broadcast by Univision's rival Telemundo - descended at times into a three-way game of bilingual one-upmanship between Beto O'Rourke, Cory Booker and Julian Castro.

And while anyone trying to explain complex policy positions in a second language gets full marks for effort, the pronunciation and syntax has furrowed the occasional brow among viewers. "They were directed at the white liberals who vote in the primaries. They'll see that and say, 'wow, cool, that candidate speaks Spanish," he told AFP.Hispanics are already the largest ethnic minority in the US and are expected to account for more than a quarter of the US population by 2060.Trump's hard line against leftist governments in Latin America has proved popular with Cuban Americans and Venezuelan exiles.

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