In the 2020 presidential race, an election advertisement about Democrats taking Latino voters for granted was the hook for one of former President Donald Trump’s most popular ads.
Featuring UFC fighter Jorge Masvidal, the nearly two-minute video showed then-candidate Joe Biden at a Hispanic Heritage Month event one month earlier playing “Despacito” on his cellphone. “To pander to us,” said Masvidal, a Miami native of Cuban and Peruvian descent. “Hell no.”
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