Eli Valentin

Eli Valentin

Eli Valentin serves as an adjunct professor at Iona University. He is a contributing columnist for Gotham Gazette, largely focusing on Latino politics in New York, and is a frequent guest political analyst at Univision NY and New York 1 News. Valentin has served as a political adviser to numerous elected officials across the country and is the editor of Sermons from the Latino/a Pulpit, and author of the forthcoming Reinhold Niebuhr and Politics (Wipf and Stock). Valentin has also begun work on a manuscript tentatively titled A History of Latino Politics in New York.

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Election worker Ramona Ortiz places a sign outside a polling station at a fire station in El Paso, Texas, just before polls open on Nov. 8, 2022. (AP/LM Otero, File)

Debunking myths about Latino vote involves examining religious ideologies

Are Latinos leaving the Democratic Party in droves and voting for Republican candidates? Commentator Eli Valentin says the Latino vote is more complex than that.

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