As the second-largest voting bloc in the U.S., Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump both need to appeal to Latino voters to win the November election. According to data gathered by the Pew Research Center, it's estimated 36.2 million Hispanics are eligible to vote in the 2024 presidential election. While data suggests Latino voters across the country voted for President Joe Biden by very wide margins in 2020, Trump gained support among Latino voters in 2020, earning a higher percentage of voters than he did in 2016. On today’s special edition of “Closer Look,” we continue our series of conversations with specific voter blocs leading up to the 2024 presidential election. Rose talks with several guests, varying in political views, about top-of-mind issues of Latino voters in Georgia and across the nation.

Guests include:

Paola Ramos, an Emmy-award-winning journalist, as well as a contributor for Telemundo News and MSNBC, and the author of the book, “Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What It Means for America"

Jerry Gonzalez, the CEO of GALEO

Mark Hugo Lopez, the director of race and ethnicity research at Pew Research Center

Tahini Fuentes, a college student at the University of North Georgia and a first-time voter

Allie Fuentes, a second-time voter

Jacky Rendon, the owner of the New Era Artist Beauty Academy.

Manuel Portillo, a DACA recipient and a member of the LGTBQ-plus community.