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It&#8217;s key for Democratic candidates to woo Latino voters on &#8220;Super Tuesday&#8221; on March 3, when some 15 states, including Texas, will go to the polls to decide who will face off against Donald Trump in the November presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1076,1539],"tags":[4965,3571,26545,946],"class_list":["post-63819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-battle","tag-democrats","tag-latino-vote","tag-texas","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>In Texas, Democrats do battle for Latino vote - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/in-texas-democrats-do-battle-for-latino-vote\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"In Texas, Democrats do battle for Latino vote - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In Texas, candidates and youth-led organizations are focusing on engaging young Latino voters ahead of the Democratic primary. 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