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The Latino swing voters who could decide the US election

A demographic that historically leaned Democrat is slowly drifting to the right. In a tight race, this shift could seal the party’s fate

In Texas’s Starr County, mainland America’s most Hispanic parish, turning your back on the Democratic party once meant certain ostracisation.

For Alberto Olivares, the decision to do so in 2020 was “kind of like divorcing your family”. But his reasoning was plain: “The party no longer represented me,” says the 54-year-old former border patrolman.

Today in Starr County, which has not backed a Republican presidential candidate in more than 100 years, voters are increasingly following suit. 

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