Democrats must face the reality of their Latino voter problem
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Democrats are losing their grip on the Latino vote. That’s a huge political problem for the party.
In 2020, there was a demonstrable swing toward the G.O.P. among Latino voters — a trend that has sustained itself during Joe Biden’s presidency and now threatens to upend Democrats’ ability to build winning coalitions in 2022 and 2024 as the party’s platform moves further to the left.
Indeed, concern about Democrats embracing socialism and left-leaning policies drove many Latino voters to defect from the party in 2020, according to a post-election report conducted by a Democratic-leaning group, Equis Research. Democrats also lost ground to Republicans on key issues related to the economy, the most important overall voting issue for Latinos.
Between 2016 and 2020, support for Trump among Latino voters increased by 10-points, Pew Research Center’s validated voter survey shows. Trump won 38 percent of the Latino vote in 2020 — the highest percentage for a Republican since George W. Bush won 44 percent in 2004. Biden’s 21-point margin of victory among Latinos marked a significant decline from Hillary Clinton’s 38-point advantage in 2016.
ME: I brought this up in 2016 and was scoffed at. Now both LEXIT and BLEXIT are real issues. That's one reason the Left has gone unhinged with fake coup show trials and insane lies and violence.
Recent polling by the Wall Street Journal also shows that Latino voters are evenly split between the parties in terms of their choice for Congress in 2022, 37 percent to 37 percent. And in a hypothetical Biden versus Trump rematch, 44 percent would support Biden and 43 percent would vote for Trump.
Democrats must face the reality of their Latino voter problem
Ultimately, many Latino voters are moving further and further away from a Democratic Party that they feel no longer meshes with their economic or cultural ideals and values.
thehill.com
Democrats are losing their grip on the Latino vote. That’s a huge political problem for the party.
In 2020, there was a demonstrable swing toward the G.O.P. among Latino voters — a trend that has sustained itself during Joe Biden’s presidency and now threatens to upend Democrats’ ability to build winning coalitions in 2022 and 2024 as the party’s platform moves further to the left.
Indeed, concern about Democrats embracing socialism and left-leaning policies drove many Latino voters to defect from the party in 2020, according to a post-election report conducted by a Democratic-leaning group, Equis Research. Democrats also lost ground to Republicans on key issues related to the economy, the most important overall voting issue for Latinos.
Between 2016 and 2020, support for Trump among Latino voters increased by 10-points, Pew Research Center’s validated voter survey shows. Trump won 38 percent of the Latino vote in 2020 — the highest percentage for a Republican since George W. Bush won 44 percent in 2004. Biden’s 21-point margin of victory among Latinos marked a significant decline from Hillary Clinton’s 38-point advantage in 2016.
ME: I brought this up in 2016 and was scoffed at. Now both LEXIT and BLEXIT are real issues. That's one reason the Left has gone unhinged with fake coup show trials and insane lies and violence.
Recent polling by the Wall Street Journal also shows that Latino voters are evenly split between the parties in terms of their choice for Congress in 2022, 37 percent to 37 percent. And in a hypothetical Biden versus Trump rematch, 44 percent would support Biden and 43 percent would vote for Trump.
