The Latino Vote Podcast: Midterm Races to Watch (Video)
07 Aug 2026 Reading time: 1 minute • Must Watch VideosThe Latino Vote Podcast breaks down the midterm races to watch, insights from Abdul El-Sayed’s success, and other midterm developments so far.
The key insight: a lot of this is not ideological — and there are great moments in here where Mike Madrid identifies exactly that. What it mostly is, in my view, is populism — and that has been the through-line of modern American politics for 10+ years now. That said, some of it is ideological — I’d put the split at maybe 65–35, populism to ideology — but either way, there are some genuinely interesting insights from experienced folks here.