Posted on 11/26/2020 3:14:20 AM PST by USA Conservative
President Donald Trump boosted his share of Latino votes because of religious and social issues, not because of his successful economic record, according to former President Barack Obama.
Obama made the claim as he admitted November 25 to a radio host that urban Democrats are often oblivious to the views of people outside their social circle.
“People were surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump,” Obama told The Breakfast Club, a radio show run by Lenard Larry McKelvey, who calls himself “Charlamagne tha God.” Obama continued:
But there’s a lot of evangelical Hispanics who, you know, the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans, or puts detainees, you know, undocumented workers, in cages — they think that’s less important than the fact that, you know, he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion, right?
Obama’s comments echoed his 2008 dismissal of midwestern voters’ economic worries in a speech to elite donors in San Francisco:
You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them. And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
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Odumbo built the cages
Obamasplaining; a symphony for fools.
It shows that the dems are keenly aware of how many voters they are losing because of their warped positions on the cultural issues...
Which speaks directly to the issue at hand. If so many Hispanics shifted to Trump this election, then isn’t that yet more evidence that he actually won, and probably by an even bigger margin than last time?
And he is still vying for the role of Antichrist.
The cages that he and his administration put in place... OBAMA is a loser and fraud!
I love the way leftists say that there are no absolute values and then condemn people for having values that leftists do not share. Why is it wrong to value innocent life in the womb over enforcement of immigration laws?
go home to Michael and cry on his shoulder
A lot more people have died because of abortion than of because of a temporary stay in a retaining area, so, yes, I do care more about abortion than about the cages you built, Mr. Obama.
Indeed. Obama is very stupid and bigoted man. And his asinine comments are alienating Hispanics even more. So keeping talking, Obama.
Obama BUILT the DAMN CAGES!!! And to Democrats, KILLING BABIES is their SACRAMENT! EVIL INCARNATE!
It would certainly be poetic justice if Biden legalized 30 million Hispanics and they ended up voting for GOP candidates.
“...the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans..”
Name one? (That’s NOT a deliberate perversion of words by the media)
No cage ever built is strong enough to hold Big Mike!
I’ll take ant fiery crash.
Obama complaining about his own cages? Insanity.
St. Barry the Pompous. A chief collaborator in the attempted coup to destroy Donald Trump and remove him from office. Rat bastard.
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