#46 - Mike Madrid

Mike Madrid is a Republican political consultant and a nationally recognized expert on Latino voting trends. He is also partner at Grassroots Lab, and is currently teaching a seminar course at the University of Southern California titled "Race, Class and Partisanship; America and The Great Transformation.”

Madrid graduated from the Edmund G. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1997, where he wrote his senior thesis on Latino politics and the perspective that politicization of emerging Latino voter groups in Southwestern states was unique in American history.

The completion of his thesis at Georgetown University in Washington DC on Latino voters became the basis for his pioneering work on Latino communications and outreach strategies in California, Texas, Florida and nationwide.

He has served as the press secretary for the California Assembly Republican leader and as the political director for the California Republican Party. In these roles, Madrid played a key role in pioneering Latino outreach and communications strategies.

In 2001 he was named as one of America’s “Most Influential Hispanics” by Hispanic Business Magazine. He is a regular commentator on Latino political issues in statewide and national media publications.

SHOWNOTES

INTRO


2:40 - A people business


5:30 - Watching folks land after the GOP drubbing in the midterms


10:14 - Republican campaigns are under-resourced


14:07 - What does a competitive republican party in California look like?



20:30 - The #CAGOP2019 chair race was not a “heart and soul” election


23:30 - The chair elections & delegate games generally


31:00 - The current trajectory of the Republican party


33:30 - It's never personal


37:30 - State’s where the Republican Party is getting stronger



39:20 - Trump trolling California


43:22 - Latinos & racial identity 



47:08 - High Speed Rail



51:19 - Immigration and the 2020 presidential election 



52:30 - A majority of Democrats voted for Prop 187



57:36 - Mike’s thesis on the Chicano movement 



1:00:00 - Mike’s prediction: Bernie Sanders wins young Latino’s in CA


1:04:00 - Instability in both major parties


1:07:00 - Predicting a fight at the Democratic convention…



1:08:16 - Blocking Bernie (again)


1:10:47 - The hypocrisy of the whisper campaign



1:12:37 - When the trolls come I’m there to fight em’ off!

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