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After moving to Iowa, they kept playing together, drawing in new friends.So when Iowa organizers for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) encouraged the presidential hopeful’s supporters to find ways to bring people together and prepare for Monday’s caucuses, Gomez suggested a soccer tournament.On a cold Saturday night in January, about 150 players — mostly Latinos, although there were also Bosnian, Nepalese and Bhutanese players — gathered at East High School for some 5-on-5 indoor matches. Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Ind., has Spanish-speaking organizers in cities with large Latino populations, including Des Moines, Storm Lake, Iowa City and Marshalltown — where one of his volunteers is a musician from Brazil who cannot vote but persuaded his boyfriend, who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, to caucus for Buttigieg on Monday.“We either need a woman or a minority or a gay man [elected president] to gain back the respect of the world,” said Hudson Lourenço, 27, who started out liking Warren and Sanders the most. “I’m just kind of stuck between them.”For months, the Sanders operation has been quietly doing things Latino activists have long begged presidential campaigns to do: Hire a diverse staff instead of a single Latino organizer; have Spanish-speaking staffers or volunteers visit or call the homes of Latinos instead of sending volunteers who can’t pronounce their names properly; visit diverse communities and listen to many viewpoints instead of meeting just with community leaders; create advertising and content that’s specifically for Latinos instead of simply translating (often badly) existing materials into Spanish; and talk to Latino voters about issues beyond immigration.Most campaigns focus their time and resources targeting Iowans who have already attended a caucus — a group that’s even whiter than the state’s overall population. While the campaign has the same list of caucus-goers that most campaigns purchase from the Iowa Democratic Party, it has built its own lists of college students and Latinos.“It’s not difficult to find pockets in communities where there’s a large population from a certain ethnicity that live in that area, so it’s like: Oh, okay, this is a Latino neighborhood, we’re going to go to every single door here,” she said.Gomez, the soccer tournament organizer, moved to Iowa in 2001 on a tourist visa, was a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient and hopes to soon become a citizen like hiswife.
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