Do Latinos Actually Lean Left?—Rich Valdes

Jan Jekielek

Senior Editor

Jan Jekielek is a senior editor with The Epoch Times, host of the show “American Thought Leaders.” Jan’s career has spanned academia, international human rights work, and now for almost two decades, media. He has interviewed nearly a thousand thought leaders on camera, and specializes in long-form discussions challenging the grand narratives of our time. He’s also an award-winning documentary filmmaker, producing “The Unseen Crisis,” “DeSantis: Florida vs. Lockdowns,” and “Finding Manny.”

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November 18, 2019Updated: November 18, 2019

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Why do Hispanic-Americans predominantly vote for left-leaning candidates, even though they actually tend to have more conservative values, in Rich Valdes’ view?

Why is access to a good education the most important factor to success? How has progressive ideology taken over higher education?

And how is it that so many Americans embrace socialist and communist policies?

This is American Thought Leaders ??, and I’m Jan Jekielek.

Today we sit down with conservative political commentator Rich Valdes, the associate producer and “Mr. Call Screener” of the Mark Levin Show. He shares his incredible journey from starting a business at sixteen, to founding a charter school, to working for Governor Chris Christie, to becoming host of the podcast “This is America.”

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