In the upcoming presidential race, voters are going to want a candidate they agree with on the issues. But relatability matters too, and with roughly 54 million Latinos in the U.S. (and growing), knowing how to speak Spanish, or at least having a good understanding of the language, is definitely a bonus for presidential hopefuls.

Here's how the official, and likely, candidates for the Presidential Election 2016 stack up when it comes to their Spanish skills.

Hillary Clinton

Hillary Clinton’s made her grand announcement that she would be running for the highest office in the land with a YouTube video that featured a diverse cast of citizens including a subtitled Latino saying, “Mi hermano y yo estamos empezando un primer negocio,” -- or “My brother and I are starting our first business.”

The former first lady and Secretary of State might have been one of those out here that needed those subtitles, because as it turns out she admittedly doesn't speak Spanish at all -- though she never tried to pretend that she could, as noted by Quartz.

Verdict: No hablan español

Bernie Sanders

On the political left she is not alone. Bernie Sanders -- the Vermont independent who recently announced he was seeking the Democratic nomination and has no problem asserting that the U.S. should strive to be more like Scandinavia -- can’t speak Spanish either.

Verdict: No hablan español (Svenska? Dansk?)

Marco Rubio

The candidates that can speak Spanish (or even a little), regardless of their ideas on immigration reform may be, all seem to be coming from the right. Marco Rubio, a 43-year-old Cuban-American who hails from Miami, is absolutely fluent in Spanish.

Verdict: Sí

Ted Cruz

Meanwhile Ted Cruz, the 44-year-old junior Senator from Texas and son of Cuban immigrants, can only just get by with the language.

That may not be a relatability problem for Cruz though, as he's been able to spin his poor Spanish skills into a way to connect with acculturated Latinos before.

For example, in 2010 he told Univision, by way of declining to debate an opponent in Spanish on their network, “My Spanish is a situation many of your viewers will recognize, which is that as a second-generation immigrant, my dad came from Cuba when he was a teenager, not speaking English. And I grew up here speaking Spanglish," said Cruz, as reported by the Daily Beast.

Verdict: Muy poco español

Jeb Bush

On the list of Spanish-speaking Republican presidential hopefuls, Jeb Bush comes out near the top. The son of former President George Herbert Walker Bush, he apparently knows Spanish so well that he identified himself as Hispanic in his 2009 Miami-Dade County voter-registration application, which came to light as an early pre-candidacy gaff recently.

The accidentally self-appointed nature of Bush's "honorary Latino" status aside, he certainly has the skills. Bush taught English as a second language in Mexico when he was a teenager and later went on to graduate college with a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies. 

Verdict: Sí