How a diverse electorate is shaping the political landscape

The demographics of the American electorate are changing.

This fall roughly one-third of eligible voters will be people of color. This makes for America's most racially and ethnically diverse voting pool to date, according to Pew Research.

Khalilah L. Brown-Dean, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Political Science Quinnipiac University and co-author of "50 Years of the Voting Rights Act: The State of Race in Politics" and Kareem Crayton, Founder & Managing Partner at Crimcard Consulting Services and Visiting Professor at Vanderbilt University Law School joined MPR News host Kerri Miller to discuss how that fact is shaping the current political discourse.

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