Apart from the NJ senator, is there a single Democrat senator who speaks Spanish. I think of Barack Obama and his remarked about people speaking “Austrian,” rather than German. We yucked, but the dim -wit had a point. The German spoken in Austria differs from that spoken in “Prussia,” quite noticeably. The Spanish spoken in Columbia differs from that spoken in Mexico or Puerto Rico. Accordingly, the people in Vienna and Berlin ought not to be lumped into the same pot, and likewise those in Bogota, Mexico, and Havana. “Hispanic” is a generic term like Asian/European. In any case. if Cruz and Rubio do onto Spanish TV, looks for the Mexican mayors in LA and SA to appeal to Mexican prejudices.
The Austrian German is a dialect, almost like the Bavarian dialect. There are many dialects in Germany, like the Bavarian, the Frankonian and those are even different depending on the area like Upper Frankonia, Middle Frankonia, and Lower Frankonia. Then there are the Hessian dialect, the Swabian dialect, the Saxonian dialect, the Thuringian dialect. Even dialect differ from town to town in the same region.