In Arizona, President Biden won by a sliver back in 2020 –just over ten thousand votes. Arizona Latinos helped deliver that victory. They're a quarter of all eligible voters in this state – and that's the largest percentage of Latino voters in any battleground state.
This week, Consider This host Ailsa Chang's reporting led her to an RV in the arid state. She joined Mayra Rodriguez on her mission of going directly after this bloc of voters on the issue she cares the most about – Abortion. Even if it means enduring lousy air conditioning in the RV when it's 108 degrees outside.
"You get sweaty, it is hot, right? And this is what I tell my children, and any people that complain about this heat, if you don't like to heat, then imagine hell," Rodriguez told Chang. Hell, to Rodriguez, would be seeing Prop 139 pass – that's a ballot measure that would expand access to abortion beyond the current 15 weeks here in Arizona, and would enshrine it as a right under the state's constitution. This movable billboard is emblazoned with urgent warnings about abortion.
But Rodriguez has an uphill battle here. Because according to Pew Research Center, 62% of Latinos believe abortion should be legal in all or most cases. But it wasn't always this way.
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