Trump has 30% Latino support and a poll says they think he won the 1st debate

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Opinion | Democrats, You Can’t Count On the Hispanic Vote


Democrats, You Can’t Count On the Hispanic Vote

President Trump’s standing is as strong as it has ever been.

By Linda Chavez

Ms. Chavez is the director of the Becoming American Initiative.

  • Sept. 23, 2020
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Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times
Democrats are counting on Hispanics to help them win the White House on Nov. 3, but they may be in for a surprise. Though I’ve been a conservative most of my life, I didn’t vote for Donald Trump in 2016 and won’t this year either. But I understand why his brand of populism and appeal to religious voters has struck a chord not just with white voters and evangelicals but also with Hispanics, who will likely make up 13 percent of voters in November.

While a majority of Hispanics routinely vote Democratic, for nearly five decades a sizable minority have consistently voted for the Republican nominee in presidential elections. In 1972, about a third of Mexican-Americans voted for Richard Nixon. In 1984, an estimated 40 percent of Hispanics voted for Ronald Reagan, a level George W. Bush also achieved in his re-election bid in 2004.

In the 2016 campaign, 28 percent of Hispanics voted for Mr. Trump, despite his openly racist language, saying Mexico was sending rapists to the United States. Polls now suggest that he has not just largely maintained his support among Hispanics nationwide; it has actually increased in key states.

In Florida, an NBC News/Marist poll shows Mr. Trump leading Joe Biden among Hispanic voters, 50 percent to 46 percent, which could put the state in a virtual tie. In Texas, nearly 38 percent of Hispanics say they support Mr. Trump, while in Arizona, 29 percent do, according to recent polls. As with other demographic groups, Hispanic men are more likely than women to support Mr. Trump, with nearly 46 percent of Hispanic men in Texas and 42 percent of young Hispanic men in Arizona supporting him.

Texas Hispanic Policy Foundation.

But perhaps more than because of racial or religious affiliation, some Hispanic voters may gravitate toward Mr. Trump because they think he will be better on the economy. Like most American voters, Hispanics rate the economy as the No. 1 issue in the election, at 80 percent according to a recent Pew Research survey. While they are more likely than Americans in general to rate income inequality as a major issue, fewer Hispanic men than women do, and income inequality and immigration rank below health care and the coronavirus outbreak as top voting issues.

Before the pandemic, Hispanic unemployment was lower and household income was higher than in most previous periods. Even though Hispanics have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus, both in disease rates and loss of income, roughly a third approved of Mr. Trump’s handling of the pandemic, a rate not substantially different among other Americans.

Another factor that may help Mr. Trump among some Hispanic voters, especially in Florida, is his continuous effort to portray Democrats as soft on socialism. Slightly more than one-quarter of Florida’s residents are Hispanic, with a plurality who are of Cuban origin but also sizable populations of Nicaraguans and Venezuelans who fled autocratic regimes. When Mr. Trump tells voters that “Joe Biden is just a Trojan horse for socialism,” it raises real fear among those whose families have lived under Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez, Nicolas Maduro or Daniel Ortega.

three weeks before Mr. Biden’s did and has an aggressive campaign with 16 offices focusing on wooing Hispanic voters in Florida, Arizona, Texas and Nevada. If Mr. Biden doesn’t devote more time, money and organization to winning at least as many Hispanic voters as Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama did, he may see his hopes of becoming president dashed.

@chavezlinda) is the director of the Becoming American Initiative and a senior fellow at the Niskanen Center.

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One day people will get real with each and stop hiding behind the false narrative of professionalism. We slowly getting there with social media activists, hustlers, capitalists and racists, and people staying on code, one day it's gonna crumble and reality will kick in, no more hiding.
 

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The Twitter troll poll is a joke. It shouldn't be in any serious discussion. Same as polls that kept saying Tulsi won the debates when literally no one was supporting her.

And the article just cherry-picks the worst polls in each state to try to act alarmist. Trump pretty much has the exact same Latino support he had in 2016. In some states it goes up and in others it goes down.

For instance, that poll claims Trump has 38% Latino support in Texas when the latest poll out yesterday shows him with just 25% Latino support there:

Joe Biden has 66% of Texas Latino vote, new poll shows


Latest poll in Arizona indeed shows Trump with 29% of the Latino vote. What the article neglects to tell you is that Biden is actually doing 1% better with Latinos there than Clinton did in 2016. Trump's gains there are with young men, which pretty much mirrors his gains in the Black community.

Biden leads among Arizona Latinos but Trump makes gains
 

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Yeah I'm going to keep it real. The fact that there is so many Latinos that support Trump is troubling to say the least.

I'm worried we could have a surprise like the 53% of white women that voted for Trump in 2016 in 2020.

Most don't. But a percentage like 30% is a good enough amount to tip in the election in Then favor of a candidate. Hitler came to power with 40% of the national vote.

Obviously as a black man I am not that person or it's not my place to really speak on it so I'm going to ask the Latinos on this board to spearhead this conversation.

Cuz it seems a lot of y'all that lean Republican really don't understand American white supremacy at all.

The ones that do I am not worried about. They aint fukking with Trump.

Its the ones that don't that might tip this election towards Trump and we'll have a neo-fascist hell for the next 4 years.

All Apologies but I'm really not understanding the thought process of actively voting or supporting somebody that's deporting their people, throwing them in ICE Camps, giving them hysterectomies, and shooting tear gas at them at the border. Not to mention building a wall to keep people out .

then again...white supremacy and stockholm syndrome can be a motherfukker.
 

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Hispanics love strong men and dictators. :yeshrug:
Unpopular opinion but I think the tie that binds the non black POC that support Trump is that they come from countries where democracy has already failed and they've already had dictators so they like Trump cuz he's like a dictator.
 

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Yeah I'm going to keep it real. The fact that there is so many Latinos that support Trump is troubling to say the least.

I'm worried we could have a surprise like the 53% of white women that voted for Trump in 2016 in 2020.

Most don't. But a percentage like 30% is a good enough amount to tip in the election in Then favor of a candidate. Hitler came to power with 40% of the national vote.

Obviously as a black man I am not that person or it's not my place to really speak on it so I'm going to ask the Latinos on this board to spearhead this conversation.

Cuz it seems a lot of y'all that lean Republican really don't understand American white supremacy at all.

The ones that do I am not worried about. They aint fukking with Trump.

Its the ones that don't that might tip this election towards Trump and we'll have a neo-fascist hell for the next 4 years.

All Apologies but I'm really not understanding the thought process of actively voting or supporting somebody that's deporting their people, throwing them in ICE Camps, giving them hysterectomies, and shooting tear gas at them at the border. Not to mention building a wall to keep people out .

then again...white supremacy and stockholm syndrome can be a motherfukker.


Make some good points but you’re looking at it the wrong way. They see themselves as whites an aspire to white. Do you want to be a part of the white supremacist structure
 

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Make some good points but you’re looking at it the wrong way. They see themselves as whites an aspire to white. Do you want to be a part of the white supremacist structure
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They equate whiteness with success. And what's whiter than the Republican Party?

And that's enough of a common bond between the non black POC that support Trump. They want to be white and they align themselves with whiteness.

It's probably bigger than the other reason of pure resentment of black people and anti-blackness.
 
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