Hispanic Voters’ China Concerns Put Titus, Lee Records Under Spotlight

A new national survey showing elevated concern among Hispanic voters about alleged Chinese access to American election systems is putting renewed attention on the records of Nevada Democratic Reps. Dina Titus and Susie Lee.

VOZ reported that 72 percent of Hispanic likely voters said they were concerned about allegations that China accessed U.S. election systems and obtained information from more than 220 million voter records. The figure was 10 points higher than the 62 percent recorded among likely voters overall in the Rasmussen Reports survey.

The findings could carry particular weight in Nevada, where roughly one in five voters is Latino. Nevada’s congressional races are routinely decided by narrow margins, making shifts among Hispanic voters potentially decisive.

For Titus, the polling renews scrutiny of her past travel and financial disclosures.

Her 2019 annual financial disclosure identifies the “Gov’t of China” as the source of travel payments for an August 2019 trip and indicates that lodging and meals were provided.

During the trip, Chinese state media reported that Titus met in Beijing with senior Communist Party official Wang Chen. The United States later sanctioned Wang for his role in implementing China’s national security law in Hong Kong.

A Chinese foreign-affairs organization reported that the delegation also met Zheng Zeguang, who later served as China’s ambassador to the United Kingdom and called allegations of genocide against Uyghurs “absurd.”

Titus’s 2013 financial disclosure also listed a matured Bank of China-New York certificate of deposit. The filing reported between $50,001 and $100,000 in interest income from the investment.

Lee’s record is drawing attention on trade policy. In 2023, she voted against H.J. Res. 39, a bipartisan measure intended to end the Biden administration’s temporary suspension of tariffs on certain solar imports routed through Southeast Asia. Supporters argued that the suspension allowed Chinese manufacturers to circumvent American trade protections. The resolution passed the House 221-202.

Lee also delivered keynote remarks during a separate session of a 2021 U.S.-China forum that featured Qin Gang, then China’s ambassador to Washington and later the country’s foreign minister.

“Hispanic families know communism’s brutality because many escaped it. Yet while they sound the alarm, these spineless Democrats are on their knees before Beijing, taking Chinese-funded perks, parking their money in Chinese banks and voting to protect the CCP’s interests,” NRCC National Hispanic Press Secretary Christian Martinez told The Globe.

“In November, voters will crush Beijing’s favorite bootlickers and send them packing.”

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