Kamala Harris has made history as the first woman of color to be the U.S. presidential nominee of a main political party. But she's certainly not the first woman, or candidate of Asian or African descent, to run for office.
“And traditionally... our kind of common understanding of this, and the research has suggested, that [non-white] candidates can't win in districts where white voters make up a majority of the population," Eric Gonzales Juenke, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Chicano/Latino Studies Program at Michigan State University, said. "And our research finds that's just not true.”
Juenke studies the way Black and Latino candidates are perceived and received by American voters. He joined Stateside to discuss the factors influencing turnout and voting patterns this election.
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GUESTS ON TODAY’S SHOW:
- Eric Gonzales Juenke, associate professor in the Department of Political Science and the Chicano/Latino Studies Program in the College of Social Science
