Hispanic Voters Shifting Toward the GOP

[applegrove]

Hispanic Voters Shifting Toward the GOP

December 28, 2021 at 7:16 am EST By Taegan Goddard 139 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2021/12/28/hispanic-voters-shifting-toward-the-gop/

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Wall Street Journal: “Nationwide, Mr. Trump’s share of the Latino vote grew by 8 percentage points compared with 2016, an analysis by Catalist, a Democratic voter-data firm found earlier this year. New calculations by the firm find that while then-candidate Joe Biden won 61% of Latino voters, the shift toward the GOP meant that he carried the group by about 750,000 votes less than had Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee four years earlier.”

“That erosion is a danger sign for the party, given that President Biden’s winning margin in five states was less than 100,000 votes.”

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[rso]

1. Biden

Hopefully this trend is offset by suburban women and independents.

[Progressive Jones]

18. I live in a suburb on the fringe of Chicagoland. 45% Hispanic. Very few are GOP. nt

[applegrove]

2. Dems need to teach how BBB is all paid for and will grow

the economy not increase the debt. The "socialism" trope GOP is using against Democrats is obviously winning.

[moondust]

3. GQP cries of "socialism" and "communism"

probably sways a few Latin American immigrants whose families fled Castro and other Latin dictators. Particularly in South Florida where Ana Navarro has noted a constant propaganda campaign.

[Progressive Jones]

19. It definitely swayed the Colombian wife of a friend of mine. nt

[Liberal In Texas]

4. RW is spending lots of $ on Spanish radio propaganda.

Dem media presence compared to the RW is really weak. And it shows.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

5. Abortion and evangelical outreach

And Democrats taking for granted that they are a monolithic voting bloc are what did it.

[UTUSN]

6. 1- Voting against own interests, 2- shifting to Fundie-ism (not that fundie-Catholicism is better)

[brush]

7. How accurate is this? And what's the extent of this alleged shift?

How much is real and how much is repug propaganda?

[jimfields33]

8. It look like numbers that shifted

The reasons could be varied of course.

[former9thward]

14. In south Texas Hispanics have shifted towards Trump and the Republicans in 2020.

An article on this: https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/democrats-losing-texas-latinos-trump/

[brush]

17. Some might consider themselves white but do racist whites consider them white?

They need to get a grip and look at history and the big picture. The treatment of Latinos in the US is not great.

[Vogon_Glory]

9. We need to do better outreach

Our party’s leadership should be working on selling the idea that we are the party that not only supports upward social mobility and keeps middle class folks in the middle class, unlike the Republicans, who cut student aid, allowed public university tuition to skyrocket, and are cutting more social assistance funding to keep their ideologues happy and to support further tax giveaways to their billionaire campaign donors.

Furthermore, we shoulld expose the Republicans’ ties to white nationalists. These people regularly use code speak words like “illegals” not only to refer to undocumented immigrants, but Hispanics who have been here in the US for generations. (And sometimes decades longer than the forebears of certain white nationalists).

As for Florida… I’ve lost a lot of sympathy I once had for Republicans of Cuban origin. If they wish to continue their love affair with Trump, Democrats ought to remind Florida voters about the passive reactions of many Cuban politicians when Fulgencio Batista overthrew the last freely-elected Cuban government in a coup in 1952.

Marco Rubio and others of his sort lacked the guts to impeach Donald Trump this year just as his forebears lacked the guts to oppose Batista.

[applegrove]

10. All good points.

[Vogon_Glory]

15. We should also remind voters that families are economic units

Republicans have been rooting their heinkel horns about how they’re the “pro-family” party all the while they’ve fought policies that benefit most American families. They ought to be called on that.

[W_HAMILTON]

12. Outreach was limited in 2020 due to the pandemic.

This is yet another reason why I think we would have had an EASIER time beating Trump if not for the pandemic.

[FakeNoose]

11. Many Hispanic voters are also Roman Catholics

... they've had lifelong indoctrination against abortion, maybe even against family planning of any kind.

We need to understand that other values are in play here. The Latinos (some of them) have been raised in an anti-feminist culture. It's going to take a lot of patience and understanding to get through, but I believe we can do it.

[JHB]

13. And for those, we need to have plenty of video and audio of evengelicals saying...

..."Catholics aren't Christian."

[Vogon_Glory]

16. True, but

While many of them are staunchly anti-abortion, those clinics are also providing gynecological and infant care that these Latino Republicans’ dear white evangelical “friends” refuse to fund or support.