PHOENIX (AP) — President-elect Joe Biden’s campaign credits its success in Arizona to the immigrant-rights and grassroots organizations that have been mobilizing Latinos for nearly two decades. The fruits of their labor — in triple-digit heat, no less — paid off in this traditionally conservative state, where changing demographics and suburban voters turning out to oppose President Donald Trump also worked in Biden’s favor.
Oh, I have an idea. How 'bout we retire that sad sack Supreme Namer of Vermont Post Offices and Castro apologist. I think it might go a long away toward winning the support of folks, who actually consider themselves white, by the way, whose ancestors fled brutal dictators in Latin America. Maybe.
Nationally Latino/Hispanic vote went 62 to 29 for Biden.
You’re Welcome
Thank you for not saying latinx
A function of gop finding 10 million more votes this year, additionally socialism is a no go in florida
and unpopular with Venezuelan Nicaraguan and many central american communites nationally
Just like people classed as “white” are varied, so are Latinos. By income, by region and by countries within regions. And by length of time in the United States, not to mention place of birth, as well as relative degrees of socialization to U.S. norms of their locality.
Finally, as a way to deal with a separate area of conversation, the White-PersonOfColor divide is a continuum for a lot of Spanish-speakers.
Absolutely
the gop has done more than Bolivar in terms of unification
but they also reveal their dismissiveness if they cared to they could be slicing and dicing segments of the latino/hispanic demographics into blocs ranging from the indifferent to the reactionary
The fact that they haven’t clued into this after decades tells me the gop isn’t really interested
Which may be a blessing look what “moderate” Pete Wilson did in California.
Whatever Barack would need could be satisfied by a consultant who is as versed with the wide range of the group of people called “Latino” as David Plouffe was in helping Barack and Joe Biden get elected.
“But according to some conservative Hispanics, Obama’s characterization of evangelical Hispanics’ support for Trump lacks nuance and minimizes how much they are concerned about undocumented workers — and their children — being put in cages or the president’s comments about Mexicans that many of his critics deem xenophobic.”
I read his article, I was not impressed. He essentially talked in circles and established nothing but getting paid for his opinion.
Edit… I meant to put this in ‘your vote for Trump minimizes your concern’
Too my way of thinking this block of Trump supporters is no different than any other. They all live in some form of alternative reality. There are some you can drag back into the reals, the others the Mike Flynns, the QAnon the one who buy into whatever political agitprop tickles their fancy, you just have to move past. Just like your relatives who swear by every crack pot theory on Coast to Coast AM. It’s the same cohort, the racial mix doesn’t matter.
I saw a young African American couple on the street today, both wearing “Jesus is my Savior, Trump is my President” hats.
They, and their Latino equivalents, are unreachable.
“There is reporting that shows that fears about the Democratic Party’s alignment with the anti-capitalist movement and with lawmakers affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America — associations that reminded Hispanic voters of socialist governments in many of their home countries — played a role.”
Seriously?
Which candidate cozied up to the ex-Soviet KGB colonel and journalist-murdering thug whose rubles – for decades – have propped up the Cuban, Venezuelan, and Nicaraguan dictators against their own people?
Which candidate has a bromance with the fratricidal, nerve-agent-spreading, nuclear-missile-rattling Communist ruler of North Korea?
Which candidate got scores of sweetheart patent deals for his daughter from the Chinese Communist Party?
(Hint: It ain’t Biden.)
With all due respect to Eugene Scott, either this is complete bullsh-t, or the level of cognitive dissonance in said demographic is utterly staggering.
It isn’t so much getting increased support in the Latino community as it is getting the supporters to vote. Turnout in Latino communities is always abysmal.
