Posted on 12/28/2021 5:07:35 AM PST by RandFan
READING, Pa.—Joseph Nuñez at first didn’t like Donald Trump. “I couldn’t stand the guy. I didn’t like the way he spoke about Hispanics or people in general,” he said. But by 2020, Mr. Nuñez had become a fan of Mr. Trump’s style and priorities, and he voted in favor of giving the president a second term.
So did many other Latino voters in this working-class city who had once backed Democrats or, like Mr. Nuñez, had skipped elections altogether. Now, as political strategists continue to sift through the 2020 election results, the emergence of these newly Republican voters is setting off alarm bells within the Democratic Party.
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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“The economy, the issue on which they trusted Trump, unlocked the door to embracing him,” Mr. Odio said.
At the same time, many Latino voters came to view the Democratic Party as untethered from their top concerns—unsupportive of law enforcement, too lax on border security and too focused on racial disparities, said Ruy Teixeira, a demographics expert and co-editor of The Liberal Patriot newsletter. Among other things, this brought the GOP new votes from Hispanic voters who have a conservative bent but hadn’t acted on it, he said.
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The answer is Trump, and it doesn't surprise me that Republican are dazed and confused.
Yea only the Republicans at the way are confused.
People with any brains at all (who are not mentally I’ll or impaired by the Wokeness Virus) understand the difference between the past 4 years of the Rrump Presidency and the colossal train wreck of the #JihadJunta Cabal.
Both parties want to know why.... The democrats want to know so they can spin new lies and the Republicans so they can make sure to effectively torpredo the trend
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As long as they are confused, they will continue to pursue counteractive measures that will not work.
Let ‘em.
Religion!!!! The more the Democrat party moves Athiest the more Religious people will move away from them!! We really need to get into these Hispanic Churches and Communities!!! All we have to do is tell them the truth!!
It’s because they’re smarter than blacks.
Also wide spread voter theft exists in black controlled inner cities. In Philly some districts routinely report 100% voter participation. This tends to daze and confuse Mitch $ McCarthy, not to mention our Republican pom-pom posters.
heavily macho, Catholic, pro life, work ethic, hmmm, hispanics moving towards the GOP... they also hate latinx.
a big mystery as to why...
They know why.
Black men, who have to compete for jobs with tens of millions of illegal aliens, are being red-pilled more and more. Hispanics, who mostly come from traditions strong in Catholic values and conservative beliefs, are likely horrified by Democrats' embrace of transLGBTXpedophilia and recognize the threat to their children. Ironically, despite AOC rhetoric, they also have to compete with illegal aliens for jobs and in places like Texas, Hispanics support stronger border and LESS immigration.
Pretty sure Reading was one with Trump country in 2016. Most of central PA is level-headed. Pockets of insanity in the colleges, however. :(
“given that President Biden’s winning margin in five states was less than 100,000 votes”
He didn’t “win”. He got at least 10 million fake, phony, fraud mail in ballots that should have been thrown out.
Communist Puppet Biden was “installed” NOT “elected”.
Machismo.............................
They shifted to Trump.
The GOP ignores this fact at its peril.
“The answer is Trump, and it doesn’t surprise me that Republican are dazed and confused.”
The Republicans are still trying to find someone who speaks Hispanic and thus can interview these voters.
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