ICYMI: Voto Latino Co-Founder and President María Teresa Kumar Speaks with Meet The Press’ Kristen Walker on Trump’s Refusal to Commit to Accepting the Election Results this November
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May 8, 2024
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In Case You Missed It: Voto Latino’s Co-founder and President, María Teresa Kumar, spoke on NBC’s “Meet the Press” with Kristen Walker about Trump’s election denialism, which would once again put our democracy in danger. Trump will not commit to accepting the 2024 election results if he loses, just as he did with respect to the 2020 election.
María Teresa Kumar also addressed Trump’s extreme views on abortion, including his view that states can decide to monitor women’s pregnancies. “You can’t get more extreme than that,” said Voto Latino President Kumar.
Key excerpts:
- Voto Latino President María Teresa Kumar on Trump’s questioning of the integrity of the 2024 elections and his refusal to commit to accepting the results: “You asked him (Tim Scott) a very simple question. Will you certify an election result? He wasn’t able to do it. Instead, what he did was take on a piece of Donald Trump’s tropes and try to say no, it’s actually the media’s fault. It’s the Fourth Estate pinning me down. And they continue doing that when you are asking tough questions to the millions of Americans that are now watching. At the end of the day, we need to make sure that our democracy is dependent on that transfer of power and legitimate elections. We have been able to demonstrate over and over again that every single one has been certified.”
- Voto Latino President Kumar discussed how Trump’s extreme views on abortion will strip women of their fundamental rights: “Let’s remind ourselves of what Donald Trump is saying. He is saying most recently in the Time Magazine interview, that states can monitor women’s pregnancies. You can’t get more extreme than that.”
- Voto Latino President Kumar explained the important role young Latino voters in Arizona will play in the 2024 elections: “The only reason that Arizona became a purple state was because Sheriff Arpaio was going after Arizonian families who are Latino. Since then, for the last 13 years, there’s been base building. Mark Kelly should not be Senator had it not been for the influx of young Latinos becoming eligible voters. There’s 163,000 Latino youth waiting in the wings who were not eligible in the last election who are now eligible. If you want to see how you talk about voter registration, the majority is going to start happening over the summer. The fact that they are paying attention and they’re hearing that they want to do massive deportations internally, that gets everybody on edge. I was with the president on Tuesday, and he said we are going to figure out how do we talk more to undocumented folks. That’s going to be huge.”
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