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Hispanic Voters in This Pennsylvania City Are Shifting Toward the GOP. Both Parties Want to Know Why
The Wall Street Journal ^ | December 28, 2021 | Aaron Zitner

Posted on 12/29/2021 12:11:22 PM PST by freddy005

Republican gains among Hispanics in Reading mirror those in other parts of the country, but Democrats think they still have important advantages with this growing demographic!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.

—strategists in both parties are trying to determine why a larger share of Latino voters backed Mr. Trump and whether the shift is durable.

One main conclusion: The social constraints that were once a barrier to voting Republican have eroded, in large part because the strong economy during much of Mr. Trump’s term caused many Latino voters to give the party a second look.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: 2020election; elections; hispanics; paping; polls; readingpa; trump
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You know The Republicans are lost when "they" don't even know how this is happening....pathetic and shame on them!!!
1 posted on 12/29/2021 12:11:22 PM PST by freddy005
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To: freddy005

As a group Hispanics put family before everything. I guess such a simple concept is too much for the GOP.


2 posted on 12/29/2021 12:13:20 PM PST by Seruzawa ("The Political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence" - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: freddy005

Here’s a thought.

Ask a Hispanic voter in this uh Pennsylvania City?


3 posted on 12/29/2021 12:15:26 PM PST by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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To: freddy005

My observation has been that Mexicans who came here legally are disgusted with the Democrats opening the flood gates to the illegals.


4 posted on 12/29/2021 12:15:30 PM PST by HandBasketHell
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To: Seruzawa

I guess such a simple concept is too much for the GOP.

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The GOP is largely a one issue party: taxes.


5 posted on 12/29/2021 12:16:00 PM PST by Starboard
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To: Seruzawa

I guess it’s because they aren’t dead yet, but I am confident the Dems can rectify that.


6 posted on 12/29/2021 12:16:12 PM PST by Glenmore
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To: freddy005

If you hit your pet dog that you raised from birth with a rolled up newspaper enough, it will bite you sooner of later. What is so mysterious about that?

wy69


7 posted on 12/29/2021 12:17:37 PM PST by whitney69
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To: freddy005

Oh, they know why it is hispanics and other minorities are gravitating towards a Trump-led GOP.

It just doesn’t pay as well.


8 posted on 12/29/2021 12:19:13 PM PST by skeeter
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To: HandBasketHell

Latinos have lived under corrosive socialismo. They’ve seen this movie before and don’t want to live under it again.

If you think about it Latino culture has very little in common with white progressivism and wokeness.

If I was hispanic I’d be very afraid of what the Democrats are selling. It defeats the whole purpose of them coming to this country.


9 posted on 12/29/2021 12:20:45 PM PST by Starboard
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To: skeeter

You got it right. The GOP is only interested in bigger personal payoffs rather than winning elections and advancing the conservative agenda.


10 posted on 12/29/2021 12:22:17 PM PST by Starboard
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To: freddy005

In spite of the Dims dreams of how to use massive immigration from south of the border, legal and illegal, too many “Hispanics” are now 2nd, third, fourth, fifth plus generation Americans with the same basic concerns of most all Americans - well run cities, basic public services like good police protection and good schools, the ability to make progress not because of your “ethnic” background or “race, but regardless of those attributes - not a handout just an equal chance. They have seen the deterioration of family life, religious life and values generated by the identity politics and government plantation society promoted by the Dims, and just as so many people become more “Conservative” as they get older, many “immigrant” families become more American as the generations go by.


11 posted on 12/29/2021 12:24:26 PM PST by Wuli
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To: freddy005

Why for either party.


12 posted on 12/29/2021 12:25:11 PM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: freddy005

If both parties decide the Hispanic shift to the GoP is real, then the southern border will get slammed shut so fast it will make your piñata spin. The evil party will insist on it.


13 posted on 12/29/2021 12:26:07 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: freddy005

Clueless group Republican politicians. Plain as the nose on their faces. Hispanics didn’t trudge 1,000 miles on foot to be lectured about transgender inequities, social justice, or carbon footprints.


14 posted on 12/29/2021 12:26:36 PM PST by blackdog (Jab Dodger. )
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To: freddy005

All these former Democrats voted for Trump but he still lost. Yeah, I don’t buy it.


15 posted on 12/29/2021 12:31:04 PM PST by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: Starboard

Exactly. If we get another GOPe President they will immediately propose a tax cut
Anything else that they do will be things they work out with a combination of Democrats and RINO Republicans.


16 posted on 12/29/2021 12:31:08 PM PST by lasereye
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I don’t really care much about someone’s race but “Hispanic” isn’t really a race at all is it?


17 posted on 12/29/2021 12:34:59 PM PST by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: freddy005

The clueless GOP and the malignant Democrats. Great combination.


18 posted on 12/29/2021 12:35:19 PM PST by Luke21
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To: freddy005
First of all, the author of the article is part of The Big Lie. President Trump has never has said anything against Hispanics. Speaking out against gang bangers and criminals is not anti-Hispanic.

Imagine if President Trump spoke out against ghetto thugs and drug dealers. They would say that President Trump is anti-Negro.

19 posted on 12/29/2021 12:35:47 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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To: blackdog

They probably see news stories about another minority getting out on low bail after murdering someone.
Who wants to live in that world?


20 posted on 12/29/2021 12:36:34 PM PST by Leep (Freedom: "What's the big deal" -joe biden)
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