In Case You Missed It, new polling finds that over 80% of Nevada’s Latino population believes abortion should be legal, regardless of their personal beliefs on the issue. Meanwhile, corrupt politician Adam Laxalt continues to attack a woman’s right to choose, putting him far out-of-touch with the majority of Nevadans.
Laxalt supports overturning Nevada’s protections for abortion access. As Nevada’s attorney general, Laxalt pushed to restrict access to birth control and he is a clear threat to abortion access in the Senate. He called Roe v. Wade a “joke” and said the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn the right to choose was a “historic victory.”
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Nevada Independent: 81 percent of Nevada Latino voters think abortion should be legal, personal beliefs aside
Michelle Rindels // 8.30.22
A new poll shows a wide majority of Latino voters in Nevada believe that abortion should be legal even if it goes against their personal beliefs on the issue.
The survey, conducted from July 20 to Aug. 1 by Mi Familia Vota and UnidosUS, found that 81 percent of those surveyed opposed taking the choice of abortion away from others. The same poll found that only 25 percent believed religious leaders should tell their members which candidates and policies to vote for, and the rest opposed that practice.
“Latinos have historically not viewed political questions through a religious lens, which makes our next finding a little bit more understandable,” pollster Gary Segura, president and co-founder of BSP Research, said during a call with reporters on Thursday.
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Fifty-six percent of those surveyed said they were certain they would vote in November. Mi Familia Vota is planning to knock on 21,000 doors in Clark County, run digital campaigns that are both bilingual and directed to monolingual, English-speaking Latinos in Nevada, as well as send 240,000 calls and text messages in an attempt to mobilize voters.
“You see high interest, particularly a few months out in a midterm election cycle, for participating in this election,” said Rafael Collazo, the national political director of UnidosUS. “This is not an apathetic electorate. It’s unconvinced.”
The poll surveyed 300 Nevada Latino eligible voters in English and Spanish and had a margin of error of plus or minus 5.7 percent.
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