History repeated itself on the University of Miami’s Coral Gables campus Sunday evening. Three months after Democratic presidential hopefuls participated in a first-of-its-kind Spanish-language forum, seven Republican presidential candidates vying for their party’s nomination took to the stage at UM’s BankUnited Center last night, wooing Hispanic voters in a similar forum broadcast to millions of viewers on Univision’s television, radio, and online platforms.
Mayor Rudy Giuliani, Governor Mike Huckabee, Congressman Duncan Hunter, Senator John McCain, Congressman Ron Paul, Governor Mitt Romney, and Senator Fred Thompson debated issues ranging from education and immigration to the Iraq War, health care, and U.S. foreign policy in Latin America.
Univision Network news anchors Jorge Ramos and Maria Elena Salinas moderated the forum, posing questions in Spanish to the candidates who had earpieces that allowed them to hear simultaneous translations into English. The candidates’ responses were simultaneously translated into Spanish for the broadcast.
The forum came on the heels of a study released December 6 that shows Hispanics nationwide are returning to earlier levels of preference for the Democratic Party. According to that study, conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center, 57 percent of registered Hispanic voters now say they are Democrats or favor the Democratic Party, while 23 percent say they align with the Republicans.
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