Ganovana Ayala of Boulder, Colo., holds a sign while attending a Latino voting rally on the campus of the University of Colorado before the Republican presidential debate Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, in Boulder, Colo.
Credit: AP Photo/David Zalubowski

The Latino electorate will reach a record high in 2016, soaring to 27 million eligible voters and nearly outpacing African American voters, according to a new Pew Research Center report — suggesting that members of immigrant families could help change the outcome of future elections.

The bulk of the group is increasingly young. Millennials make up almost 44 percent of the Latinos who will be eligible to vote in the 2016 election, according to the report’s projections. The Latino electorate also swelled in part because of the 1.2 million adult Latino immigrants who are living in the country […]