The Daily Show: Ears Edition - Behind the Show: John Leguizamo Calls Out Democrats on Their Weak Appeals to Latinos

Episode Date: May 6, 2024

John Leguizamo joins Daily Show writer, Kat Radley, to explain the crucial role the Latino vote will play in the 2024 election. John breaks down why Spanglish ads from the Biden-Harris campaign are not enough to secure Latino support, how Trump and the GOP dominate with messaging, and how Democrats need to fund the inspiring grassroots organizations often led by female organizers.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Wherever you get your podcast. You're listening to Comedy Central. You're listening to the Daily Show Ears Edition. This is Kat Radley, writer for the Daily Show. I'm here with actor, activist, and Daily Show contributor, John Liguazamo. Contributor, that's, oh, that's a high praise. I don't deserve that. You've gotten a promotion, you're a contributor now.

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It looks like the Democrats are in trouble. And you might be thinking, how is this possible? Donald Trump is winning Latinos? Build the wall? Donald Trump? Mass deportations? Donald Trump? Guy who thinks Daddy Yankee is a baseball player, Donald Trump? There's exciting to be a writer on this piece and can you break it down for our listeners, like what was this segment about?

You know, it's about a call to action for Biden, a call to action to Julie Chavez Rodriguez, his campaign manager. It's a call to action for Latinos. And everybody listening, that we are the largest voting block after white people. 36 million Latinos are going to vote and we're going to decide who's going to be president. And it's tricky now because we only care about, we don't care about immigration. Unfortunately, I thought we did, but we don't give a flying F about immigration.

We care about our businesses. We care about improving our business, about getting bank loans, about getting taxes cut. Yeah, paying for groceries and gas. And that's what this piece is focusing on. And as writers, we hear you're coming, we get very excited, and we kind of want to pitch some ideas, like how important Latinos are, they're the biggest voting bloc. Yeah.

We are the fastest growing population in America. That's right. Fastest growing. You know what that means? We be f-fixing. And the thing is that white people are shrinking too, and then you see why white fragility is such a thing. I'm totally fine with it. No, I know you had that. I wasn't looking at you can blame you or looking at you try to, no, I thin. Or looking at you the. I thi Oh, I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I th. I thi, I thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, or thi, or thi, or thin, or, or, I thin, or, I th. I th. I th. I thin, thin, thin, th. I, th. I, th. I, th. I'm, th. I'm, thi, or, thin, or, or, or, the the the thin, the thin, thin, the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thin, thi. thi. thin, theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, you know, I mean, we can all live together. That's the one thing, the beautiful thing about Latin people.

We love everybody. We'll have sex with everyone. We don't, we love everybody. We love having sex with everyone. We love black, Asian, Jewish, white, you name it. And that's what this podcast is really about. Who are the question. So getting back to the piece though, like, they're like, so since the Latino voters, they do have the power to really swing this election whichever way they want and one of the things that this piece covers is that they are losing ground with Biden and gaining ground with Trump even though Biden's the one who's trying harder.

What is it that you think the Democrats are doing wrong in their messaging? Why are they losing Latino voters right now? Because they take us for granted, man, I mean Trump already knew in 2020 and that's why he was able to get Florida. Republicans are working hard. They were coming at us in WhatsApp with ads. They were coming at us in our Spanish language radio stations with all kinds of trigger words like socialism that triggers Cubans, Venezuelans, and Colombians now, because the influx of immigrants from Venezuela escaping Maduro.

I may be getting thick into the Latin politics, but that's what we're here for. And they came at us with ads. They talked our talk. Biden assumed, or in 2020, the Democrats assumed that we were Democrats just because we were Latino, but no, you have to come for us. You have to work for us, you have to knock on our doors, you have to call us, you have to talk about the words that trigger us into voting for you. And there were so many Latin organizations, grassroots, that got zero help in Arizona and Texas. Zero help.

These Latinas were doing it by themselves, and they gave us Arizona, and they almost purplized Texas, but they didn't have any funds. And that's where the mistake is put that money in these grassroots organizations that are working their ass off to flip these red states, which are ridiculous that they're red. I mean, Arizona is 30% Latino. Texas is, the majority is Latino, 40% Latino, 12% Black. White people are a minority in Texas. The fact that Texas hasn't gotten blue yet is such a failure, I think, on the Democratic Party's part. Because we could have totally made that blue. It's a hard one, though, because they have gerrymandered it to a moth fucking inch.

I mean, now that they got AI, that she's going to be even crazier. They've have so many blocks over there, so many tricks harder to vote. And it's been proven, like you said, with the grassroots organizations, that that is where the real difference matters. When you get the people registered to vote in those communities and increase the voter block, even by a few numbers, we realize it does make a big difference. Yeah, that's the one thing I never knew about politics in voting was, it's just a few numbers. I mean, sometimes it's it's a one, it's a one, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the people, and the people, and the the people, and the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th., and the th., and thi., and thi, and thi, and thi. thi. thi. thrownea. threats. thea., thea.a. theananananananann. theaughea, and thi. thea, and thi.'s incredible. So it makes you realize how important your vote is. So the apathy, you know, Latinos have apathy too. They have the apathy, you know, they feel like, I mean, I've been traveling

around with my show, MSNBC show, like Osama does America, and I can't name the cities, but people are living in hard places that get no funding, that get no funding, that get no, the schools are defunded hospitals are going away, because they're trying to gentrify an urban renewal basically, you know, kill these cities where Latin people are living. So they understandably, they're upset and angry and have apathy. Yeah, and Biden's the president now, so it's natural to think, well, he's the one to blame. And people have short-term memories, too. They don't realize that Trump, that Trump, that Trump, th. thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thu, thi. thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, thi, their, thi, thi, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, thi. And, thi. And, thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thee. the. the try. thee. try. thee. thee. thi. the. thi. thi. too. They don't realize that Trump handled COVID so badly that that's why we had such huge inflationary problems and have all these economic problems. But Biden is fixing it and helping it but you know. But they're not good at getting that message across. No, definitely. We never never, we weren't good at it with Obama either. Yeah. And in terms we're talking about like reaching them in their language in Spanish and now they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're th. they're th. th. they're th. th. th. they're th. th. th. th. th. they're th. th. th. they're they're th. th. thi. thi. thi. they're they're th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. to. they're to. to. to. they're they're they're thiiiiiii. they're thi. thi.. I mean Spanglish, it only gets to, makes you laugh. Yeah. I mean it's not really, it's Latinos who like to goof.

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to write for you because you are so fun to write for. Because you, as an actor, you know, you're really good at the characters and the voice acting, so we can have a lot of fun playing with the different characters in the pieces. And with Univision, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, we, the, to, to, the, to, to, the, to, to, the, to, to, the, the, the, the, to, the, to, to, to, to, to to to to to their, the, their, to to their, their, their, their, their, th, thi, thi, to write, to write, to write, to write, to write, to write, to write, to write, to write, to write, to write, the the the the the their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, to to to to to to to their, to to, their, their, their, their, their, to their, thracea, thi, thi, the Trump interview and how they gave him the softball questions. Disgusting. Univision facing growing backlash after giving Donald Trump the royal treatment. Last week the network hosted a very friendly hour-long exclusive interview with Trump that his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, helped arrange. I just, mother-finding meal. I don't know what's more shocking that Univision gave Trump a softball interview or that

Trump led a Latin guy into his house. How did that happen? That piece that we did was vital because I got a call from Univision and their marketing expert who tried to talk me down and I was like, nah, bra, you softballed him on purpose and you need to fix this because I've heard from a lot of newscasters that you're swinging right and on purpose. And it's not okay. You need to be neutral. they go, oh, well, what are you talking about? You need to come down and meet with us. We love to because we really really really want to want to want to do want to do want to do want to do want to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do the right the right to be to be to be the right to be to be to be to be to be the right the right the right, the right, the right their their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, no, no, no, no, no, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their. their. their. their. their. their. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. their, their. their. their. their. their the. thea. tooo. tooo.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a.a. I's their.a.a. their. their. their, their. their to be neutral. And you go, oh, well, what are you talking about? You need to come down and meet with us.

We love to because we really want to do the right thing. But it was BS because they have been swinging right. And it's not okay to pick a side like that. Just we got to be new to your news station. Yeah. Because they're swinging for you're supposed to be impartial, which... Fox News obviously is not impartial. I mean you know that. Yeah, I mean there's American media like on the left and right that is swinging both ways or wrong with the other. At least we're swinging at least MSNBC

swinging with facts. Yeah, that's true. They're still swinging left, but I hate calling it left, I'm, I hate calling it left because we don't have a real left in America. I'm from Latin America. We have a real left. The real left wants to destroy the government. You don't have, we don't have that in America. We have a left of center left. But we have a real right in this country. Oh yeah, yeah. That's very real. That's what's weird. Yeah. You know what I mean, Kat? You know what you're doing? They dig in so hard on the right, and they're really good at actually pulling, like, the social issues and making them, like kind of take place in real life,

intangible legislation and things like that, that are actually affecting people. How do they do that, I don't know? I wish we could figure out how you know, the vouchers are hitting. Everybody was believing that vouchers are great, which will destroy public school education for everyone. So only the best students will get an education, everybody else will have to fall through

the cracks. I'm glad you brought up education because that's another thing I wanted to talk to you about. Well yeah, because I think, that's my passion, you know, is education, the education, is education, the education, the education, the education, the education, their, their, their, their, because, because their, their, because their, because their, because their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, the's my passion, you know, is education, it's everything. Actually, I used to be a high school English teacher before I was a writer at the Daily Show while I was doing comedy, but that's, we can get into that later. But one thing that, like one piece of legislation I think on the right, they are so good at is getting like the anti-Cart and the anti-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-D-Da-e-e-e-e-e-e-easelia-sli-e-a theasea-sha-shihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihihiiii th, th, th, th, th, th, thi, thi, thi th, th, th, th, th, thiiii th, th, thiiiiiiii, th, the past few years that looking at how whitewashed American education and curriculum is. Right, true that. People are finally kind of talking about it.

But it's something that you've noticed a long time ago and your show, Latin History for Morons, you even tried to like essentially fill that whole yourself, for my children, for other people's children, for other people. Yeah, it's crazy. You grew up in America and you only learn about, I mean, I hate to say white history, but it is kind of like white people's history of America, but denies everything that was there before. Like you barely toubl the genocide of all the Native American people, the stolen land, the treaties broken forever. They invaded them and took it from them.

I mean, they don't even mention that. They don't mention, you know, of course. No, we discovered it. How can you discover something and settle something that was already discovered and settled by another people? That's what's incredible how you can whitewash that and change and make the other people who were living there the villains. I mean, that's what Westerns flip me out. It's like, wait, you made the people who were living here, the people who were genocided and attacked and murdered and slaughtered, you made them the villains. That's incredible writing and genius

marketing. Yeah, those people grew up their descendants became the right-wing media people who were so effective in getting that messaging out. Right, that messaging is so easy to get. I don't know how that's, it's much easier than, I guess, showing sympathy and empathy for others. Yeah, which is sad. You think that should be easier to... thin, thi, you, you, thi, thin, thi, thin, thin, thi, thin, thi, thin, their, thi, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their their their their descendants, their descendants, their descendants, their descendants, their descendants, their their their their their their their their, the Americans do want decency though? I really feel like traveling around America and I travel a lot. People do want decency. They want decent people. They want respect. They want everybody to be respected. I think that's that's why I love America because I know that's deep in our DNA in America. Yeah, no I agree and it's it's sad for the people who maybe do get the misinformation or they're only to to to to of reality or electing the people who really would do the things that would make their life better.

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but you've been vocal about, you know, increasing representation and equity for Latinos. How the thoids, yeah. Yeah, one of the many voices. but you've been vocal about, you know, increasing representation and equity for Latinos in Hollywood especially, but across the board, and it was something you got to cover during your guest week host here, which was always, which was also very fun with like the various sketches and jokes we did for that. In terms of how you started out as like an actor and a comedian, was there a certain time where that shift kind of the role of activist and advocate and advocate thaketeeteeteeteeteeteete. th. th. th. th. th.. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the the th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. Yeah, the th. Yeah, the the the the the the the the the the the th. Yeah, the the the. Yeah, the. Yeah, the. the. thee. theeeeate. to. to. the theeeeate. the the the thoooo. the the. the. th, was there a certain time where that shift kind of happened where you started to take on the role of activist and advocate as well for the Latino community? Was there like a certain moment where you, or was it kind of a, yeah, I mean I was always always socially conscious, cat. I was always socially conscious

because I was aware of the disparity and the inequality. I mean, it was front and center in my life. Like, here I am in NYU and I'm the only Latino in my class. And, you know, I had Andrew McCarthy my class. I had D.B. Sweeney. You, I don't know if people know, remember these, it's an age cap here. But they were going to five editions a day. DB Sweeney. He was in the cutting edge. Yes, yes. And Andrew McCarthy was in like every 80s movie, you know, every breakfast club movie. And they were going to five editions a day and I was going to one every five months. Oh wow. For a drug dealer. And I was like, oh my god, I was an idealistic young man and I realized

oh my god my opportunities are not the same, no matter if I got A's, they didn't get A's, I was paying the same tuition, I did not, no matter how, what I did, I was never going to have the same opportunities as them. That's when I realized that this deck was stacked against me and I didn't lose sight of that. And then you get to the DNC and then I. John Kerry I was at the DNC and all of a sudden I was like oh wow this is politics, it's accessible, I can talk to these people, they're reachable, that made me realize that there was something I could do that that could talk to people and it made me change my whole mind about it that it was not you know certain people's politics that I had a little bit of that apathy th. th. th. th. th. th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm th. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I was not thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th. thi. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. It's thi. It's thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm theeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. I'm thi. that apathy too you know just because growing up in the hood and whatnot. But actually you felt like there was something you actually could control or affect change in a certain way. Yeah

that things that I did, things that I participated had an influence of some you know whatever small little influence we all have some influence. Yeah that's great that's powerful to hear becauseto the point where they think that vote wouldn't matter, but there's even so much more that you can do. I mean, when I go travel around America and I see these, mostly Latinos organizing with no money, nothing on their own, and organizing and going door to door and getting people to flip their votes and giving us Arizona, I mean it's incredible. And it's in Arizona, Texas, California, you know AOC did it in New York, she went stomping, my mom went with her and all over Queens and they knock on doors, hello you want to vote for us come on you can do it

I know you can't come on vote come on go go it's always the women who have to end up doing right yeah the hard hard hard labor yeah the hard hard all the to get shit done come come on. Yeah, yeah. No, it's always have. Yeah. In terms of this piece and like the writing process, I know like the writers came with some pitches and ideas, did you have, like, did you know what it was you wanted to talk about? Or were you kind of open to see like, okay, what were their pitches is their way we can't marry the voting situation.

And then boom, she ran for it, you know, and I, and I send her like, you know, 36 million Latino, little ad, little Wikipedia information or Google information. I google, I googled. That's the Spangles right there. And I sent it to her and then, boom, she had a piece. And then I said, you know, I want I want I want I want I want I want I want I want I want I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted I wanted to I wanted to to to to to to to to do, I wanted to do to do to do to do to do to do to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to do to. I to. I to. I to. I to. I to. I to. I to. I to. I to. I to. I to. I to. I to. to. to. to. to. to. to. the the the the ge. the the the the to. too. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. to. I to. I to. I to. I to him, and then boom, she had a piece. And then I said, you know, I wanted to do accents and voices and do my cousins and do my uncles and whatnot. You know, you guys wrote it. And then boom, here we are. Yeah, that's great. One thing I thought was when I originally, a pitch I had, which we didn't get to, you were saying you wanted to focus on two they care about. In fact, they don't even really care about it that much at all compared to other issues, like it's all about the economy and inflation now.

Yeah, I mean, that's what I found talking to my, because I thought we did care. I was in my own bubble. I thought immigration was a big deal because I see the horror is happening. But no, Latinos are, especially immigrant Latinos who are naturalized, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are natural, who are naturalized, who are naturalized, who are naturalized feel competitive. Yeah. That these other people are getting asylum and getting their naturalization really quick and they didn't. They had to work their asses off and they feel bitter and I had no idea. I thought they were full of empathy and love and and ah, they see them as a threat because they actually can't take their jobs. Right. So that was a hard lesson for me.

Yeah, and that's I think probably what the two campaigns are having to learn as well. Not just inflation and the economy. Poles are also showing Latino voters are interested about crime and health care. And there's also all these other issues that disproportionately affect them. Like I was doing some research for the piece. Apparently of all women of color, Latinos are most hurt by abortion bans. Latinos are also more disproportionately affected by climate change because they tend to be working jobs that are, you know, like, like outdoors, they're vulnerable to extreme weather. And so I was like, oh yeah, there's so much stuff other than immigration that the media and these campaigns shouldn't focus on because, like another thing you were talking that, that, that, that, that, thi, thi, thi, thi, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, thei, thei. Like, the, the, like, the, the, the, like, they. Likethese campaigns shouldn't focus on because like another thing

you were talking about that you want to say that Latinos are not a monolith, you know, there are so many different issues that are affecting them and that's something I think our piece kind of touch on. Right, right, we try to touch them. I mean I got like three minutes on the topi. Yeah, I mean it's hard, it, it's, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, it's hard, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, well, th. th. th. th topics, but I mean, I guess everybody thinks immigration is a thing because even though we keep saying immigration, immigrants, what we're really saying is, we're saying Latinos coming across the border. Yeah. Nobody, I mean, that's what, it's so weird.

We're seeing pictures of Latinos, we see pictures of them rounded up by horses, we see them crossing river, we see them dying, but nobody's saying Latinos. They're saying immigrants. But that's the unspoken word that bothers me a lot. But yeah, Latinos are deep in their lives. They got a lot of trauma. They can't be as concerned about their immigrant brothers and sisters. So we need to win this election to fix all these things. So let's focus on the things things thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes thoes tho-Io-Io-Io-Io-I. tho-anan. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho-a. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. tho. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi-nn't thi-n't tho. thoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. that election to fix all these things. So let's focus on the

things that are going to get Latinos to vote. You know, Bernie had it. Bernie had the Latinos. Bernie had the Latinos. He had Latino consultants. He had A.O.C. He had a ton of them. They spoke to Latinos. Latinos were fired up about Bernie. Because he a little propped up. He spoke, he knew that the lingo, he had it down. They should just hire all the people he had, which I mean they're hard to get because they're all like moved up. Including Bernie Sanders maybe? Yeah. Bernie Sanders talks to them. He talks to talk. I don't know how he did it, but he got it all. That sounds like a great place to stop and there's so much more that we didn't get to cover in this podcast or in the piece. So we look forward to when you get to come back again.

Yeah. Absolutely, Cat, what a pleasure. Thank you for the pleasure. Thank you so much for the time to do this podcast and for the awesome pictures. Thank you for writing a kick-ass piece. Yeah, hey, hey, it's you're you, you're you, you're you, you're you're you're you're you're you're you're the the the's very fun. God love you for the liar, that's her. Okay, thank you so much for joining me and thanks for listening to the Daily Show Ears Edition. And thank you so much John Ligwizamo for being here. Grazie.

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