Spanish-language radio show overflows with frustrated voters in Pa. battleground – NBC10 Philadelphia

Spanish-language radio show overflows with frustrated voters in Pa. battleground  NBC10 Philadelphia

Victor Martinez runs a Spanish-language radio station in the Lehigh Valley and regularly hears voters' frustration with everyday realities. Victor Martinez, who runs La Mega 101.7, a Spanish-language radio station in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley, hosts a politics talk show from his studio in Allentown, Pa., on Sept. 29, 2026. Stream Philadelphia News for free, 24/7, wherever you are with NBC10. That's all Victor Martinez wanted from listeners of his Spanish-language radio station — tell him one positive thing about President Donald Trump. Someone mentioned the $5,000 payout that Trump promised if Republicans keep control of Congress, which Martinez thought was so hilarious that he played a laugh track. Then, a trucker shared a silver lining from high diesel prices — he was expecting to take an unplanned vacation because he could no longer afford to fill up his rig.

Martinez has been hosting his show for nearly a decade in Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley, where Latinos have gone from a fifth to nearly a quarter of the population over the same time period. He added an hour of politics to his morning talk show at the end of Trump's first term, and listeners flooded his phone with their worries about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, their unhappiness with inflation and their concern over Joe Biden's age. Breaking news