Where the hell is the Republican leadership to welcome these folks? Is it because Trump opened the door for them?
This article looks like the GOP’s first twitch toward promoting latinos and illegals again, resuming where the project left off under Bush.
Over the years, Republicans have shown that they know how to do token diversity outreach efforts. The only thing they have persistently failed to do is field credible candidates in heavily nonwhite districts and make serious efforts to persuade and court the votes of minority constituents. One often gets the sense that some Republican politicians would rather just pack these voters into gerrymandered districts designed to elect Democrats, shrug, and ignore them.
This needs to change now because Republicans are starting to find more and more of these constituents banging on their party's door as the Democratic Party loses its mind. It's time to answer in good faith and show some manners.
A few sharp political reporters at major publications have noticed how South Texas Hispanic voters shifted strongly toward the Republican Party during Donald Trump's presidency. Trump dramatically improved his party's margins in South Texas, where a conservative Latina Republican came within 3 points of defeating a sitting Democratic member of Congress in 2020 in a seat that is 82% Hispanic.
In the time since, President Joe Biden's border crisis has won Democrats very little love in the communities of the Rio Grande Valley. South Texas Republicans have just lately started winning noteworthy elections for a change. They are especially excited about a coming special U.S. House election in which they might even have the upper hand.
South Texas Democratic congressman Filemon Vela resigned to become a lobbyist just before midnight Friday. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott has the power to call a special election. If he does, the Republican nominee will be favored to win and represent this 84% Hispanic district. She will then have the opportunity to run for re-election as an incumbent in the fall.
The hope is that this seat and perhaps two others in South Texas are at a historic inflection point. Texas Hispanic voters may be about to turn away from electing Democrats and toward electing Republicans. If this happens, it could spread. The potential is explosive.
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When the premise of the party is to take away road blocks from people doing for themselves, it is hard to have an outreach for those used to having gov. give them things.
The only “Hispanics” I see trending GOP are Venezuelan emigres (Florida and Texas), Tejanos in south Texas, and to a lesser extent Colombians in South Florida. Younger Cuban Americans seemed to have gotten even more GOP, returning to the party of their grandparents/parents. Other “Hispanics” not so much.
I think this is nonsense. I am not a Republican because Republicans pay attention to me and consider me important. I am a Republican because, of the two major parties, it comes closest to believing what I believe.
To modify what Republicans believe in order to attract more voters would be and has been very unproductive.
Would I remain a Republican if Republicans became anti-gun? Hell,no.
Would I remain a Republican if Republicans became pro-abortion? No!
Would I remain a Republican if Republicans became pro-trans? No.
If Republicans want to attract various minorities they simply need to effectively communicare where they stand, remain steadfast in that stance, and insure that minorities understand the evil consequences of liberalism.
The “LatinX” stuff was the last straw, along with rewarding lazy people who don’t work.
It’s about time Hispanics got out of the democrat criminal enterprise disguised as a political party.
Hispanics don’t like the plantation the dems set up for them. Dems want Hispanics to be failures, dependent, angry, and to blame it all on Anglo-man. Most are not buying it. Most are hard working and have family values. They should ditch the dems.
So Republicans will get 37% of the Hispanic vote instead of 35%
Yay!!!!!
They’re being replaced by a million at the southern border. Dems aren’t worried - they have a new voting base already arriving.
Hispanics in Florid are a big part of the Team...and have been for decades. We welcome our brothers and sisters in the Hispanic community - and they welcome us back...
Hispanics in Florida are a big part of the Team...and have been for decades. We welcome our brothers and sisters in the Hispanic community - and they welcome us back...
We ought to be telling them that the more illegals that come, the worse this country will become, and it will turn into the sh*thole you left.
For most of my 24 years on FR the near-consensus among freepers had been “don’t waste your time trying to get black votes— they won’t ever leave the reservation(or plantation).” Likewise Hispanics. I’m glad to see at last that thanks to Trump, conservatives may be waking up.
Y’all come. Welcome aboard. It’s long past time for our Hispanic brother and sisters to get off the Democrat crazy train.
Don’t believe it. Hispanics will still vote Democrat over Republican 70-30.
He was around eighteen years old and had been in the U.S. illegally since he was an infant. He spoke perfect english, was very respectful, very productive, and he welcomed a conversation about why I would be a conservative.
I explained to him how his productivity had created wealth.
Together we had purchased ten thousand dollars worth of material and added his ten thousand dollars worth of labor to re-side my house.
I traded my twenty thousand dollars for twenty thousand dollars worth of re-sided house. I came out even.
The hardware supplier sold ten thousand dollars worth of material and came out ahead by whatever their profit margin is.
The young man working on my house ended up with ten thousand dollars in his pocket that didn't exist prior to doing the work. That, I explained, is how wealth is created.
I'm pretty sure he got the point.