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Latinos in once true-blue Texas border zone are getting on the Trump train
The Guardian ^ | 10 Aug 2024 | Ed Pilkington in Zapata, Texas

Posted on 08/11/2024 2:03:28 AM PDT by blueplum

...The convoys are known as “Trump Trains”, and though they have appeared in other states they have taken off in the Rio Grande valley. They symbolize the political drama that is unfolding in this overwhelmingly Hispanic community that has for generations been umbilically tied to the Democratic party: the seemingly unassailable rise of Trump....

An opinion poll from April conducted by the Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation (TxHPF) found that Trump was leading his then presumptive rival Biden in South Texas by 44% to 36%. That was an astounding statistic given the region’s previously lock-tight Democratic record...

Religion is another critical factor. Opinion polls suggest that Trump’s popularity in Texas is especially high among born-again Christians.

According to the TxHPF poll, Trump held a clear lead within this religious community over Biden of 61% to 18%....

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: eljefe; hispanic; latino; riogrande; tejano; texas; trump; zapata
this is a very looooong article, even by Guardian standards, focused on individuals' stories.
1 posted on 08/11/2024 2:03:28 AM PDT by blueplum
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To: blueplum

Yeah, yeah, we hear this story every election:

“Really guys, this time the browns and blacks will vote Republican this year for sure!”

And of course they always go 99% Democrat so they can steal whitey’s tax dollars


2 posted on 08/11/2024 4:15:01 AM PDT by pigeoninthepark
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To: blueplum

All legal residents of the US...except those who live in rich suburbs of DC and other major cities...are discovering that illegal immigration hurts *them* personally!


3 posted on 08/11/2024 4:26:12 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Gay State Conservative
All legal residents of the US...except those who live in rich suburbs of DC and other major cities...are discovering that illegal immigration hurts *them* personally!


ALL residents of the US are seeing how negatively illegal immigration and lack of control over the border is hurting them.

Crime, violence and drug addiction are out of control.

The drugs coming in over the border from China are worse than lethal - they destroy peoples brains and central nervous systems and leave people with permanent , debilitating cognitive and physical damage that is often beyond rehabilitation.

People are living on the streets and living conditions in cities are worse than the Great Depression due to substance abuse driven vagrancy that makes the old Skid Row look like Disney Land.

Our cities are literally becoming third world shantey towns. Nobody can escape living in the degenerating Biden Administration America.

You might be a dolphin or a whale but if you are swimming in an ocean that is polluted and dying, you are no better off than a squid.

Rich or poor, blue collar or professional - living in the Democrats America is like living in a sewer which is no fun for anyone. If you are poor and living in a bad neighborhood, you always had the option of working hard and moving to nicer areas.

Democrats are intentionally destroying the nice things in America and are running the country into the ground

.The increasingly rare nice places are becoming unavailable for most Americans which is bad for everyone. I go to places where I have lived in the past and I no longer recognize them.

4 posted on 08/11/2024 4:49:20 AM PDT by rdcbn1
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To: blueplum

Democrats make the mistake that all Latins are loyal to each other. Same as saying all from Africa are loyal to each other. They are not. Mexicans may be loyal to other Mexicans, but illegal immigration is not just Mexicans. It involves people from all over Latin America, Africa, Middle East, and Asia.

Whatever Latins do vote Democrat this year, it’s for some other different reason.


5 posted on 08/11/2024 5:18:59 AM PDT by Marko413
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To: blueplum

thanks

Most Latinos including illegals are culturally, socially somewhat conservative

most do NOT like at ALL homo parades blocking traffic, mutilation of children, mass-scale taxpayer-subsidized abortion factories, perverted men beating women at the Olympics, tampons in men’s rooms, and all the rest of the sicko krap that the D party pushes

most (not all, admittedly) want jobs and opportunities, and some recognize how the D party is killing employment in USA

R’s reaching out to the Latino/Mexican community will pay off in votes (won’t get them all but will get MANY of them with genuine, cordial invitation)


6 posted on 08/11/2024 5:19:37 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: blueplum

Did Karl Rove write this?


7 posted on 08/11/2024 5:26:04 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Yes, they may be conservative in life issues, but they’ll vote for that EBT, medicaid and all the other freebies every time which the Demonrats dangle above their heads every election.

Demonrats publicize over and over that the mean old Pubbies will take away their EBT, medicaid, SSI, SSD, S8, etc. etc.

If EBT, medicaid, SSI, SSD, S8 and various other “programs” comes bundled with the LGBTQABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ+, gun grabbing, tax to high heavens, big brother government, anti property rights agenda, so be it.


8 posted on 08/11/2024 5:26:50 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: AbolishCSEU

I can never get over why people don’t see California as a lesson on how they vote. I lived it. The more illegals and south of the border people came in the bluer the state got. You can’t get near a welfare office of any kind, or hospital in California without hearing nothing but Spanish spoken.


9 posted on 08/11/2024 5:58:52 AM PDT by sheana
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To: blueplum


10 posted on 08/11/2024 6:27:12 AM PDT by Iron Munro (Sun Tzu: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes)
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To: sheana

And here comes Proposition 33!!!


11 posted on 08/11/2024 7:08:36 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: rdcbn1

The democrats are experts at dividing and slotting everyone in to little groups of mind numb obedient voters for their own group. Never mind illegal immigration hurts everyone. “Hey trannies, we will give you access to children and free stuff.” “Never mind inner city low income blacks and Hispanics being pushed out of cheap rents, we’ll give you some free child care so you can get an extra job.” Never mind white women assaulted and raped by illegal aliens, you’ll get free abortions.” “Never mind student pants who can’t afford real estate, rent, food, gasoline, you’ll get you loans paid off.”

And they were all overcome with “JOYOUS EXUBERANCE!” Yay Kamala....

Whatever happened to that Obama Fanatic who “wouldn’t have to worry about putting gas in my car, food on the table, or afford that kitchen remodel.”


12 posted on 08/11/2024 7:59:27 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: faithhopecharity
reaching out to the Latino/Mexican community

What does that even mean? Why should Republicans have to kiss Latino butt and pander to get them to vote R? Why cant R's just say this is who we are and what we stand for now join us?

13 posted on 08/11/2024 8:13:14 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

in an ideal world, definitely we would agree on this
thanks

in this real world where the D’s have so employed racism in their campaigning and governing, “groups” of Americans now “expect” some sort of outreach effort

i think that all the R’s need to do is include some campaigning in Mexican/latino neighborhoods.... while delivering the same essential messaging as elsewhere...just to be seen as not avoiding or ignoring these voters

?


14 posted on 08/11/2024 11:54:23 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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