{"id":62224,"date":"2020-11-29T15:37:59","date_gmt":"2020-11-29T21:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62224"},"modified":"2020-11-29T15:37:59","modified_gmt":"2020-11-29T21:37:59","slug":"62224","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=62224","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama Smears Trump\u2019s Latino Voters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Confounding Democrats across America, President Trump made big gains in the Latino community on Election Day in states like Florida and Texas, vastly improving his 2016 performance with them.<\/p>\n

The data doesn\u2019t lie, as Politico\u00a0explains<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Despite four years of\u00a0being defined<\/a>\u00a0as a racist for his rhetoric and harsh immigration policies, Trump improved his margins in 78 of the nation\u2019s 100 majority-Hispanic counties. And he did better with Latinos in exit polls of each of the top 10 battleground states, a POLITICO review of election data found.<\/p>\n

Joe Biden still won Latino voters overall. But as post-election data trickles in, Democrats are growing concerned. Trump\u2019s notable gains weren\u2019t limited to Miami\u2019s\u00a0Cuban Americans<\/a>\u00a0or border-region\u00a0Tejanos<\/a>. Although\u00a0Florida and Texas<\/a>\u00a0stood out for the notable shift, Puerto Ricans as far away as Philadelphia and Mexican Americans in Milwaukee drifted Trump-ward.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

………..<\/p>\n

There are many reasons for Trump\u2019s improved standing with a voting bloc that has long been crucial to Democrat wins at the state and national levels. We\u2019ll get into those in a minute, but first, let\u2019s take a look at how former President Barack Obama tried to explain away Trump\u2019s gains.<\/p>\n

In an interview to promote his new book \u201cA Promised Land,\u201d Obama\u00a0told<\/a>\u00a0the New York City-based \u201cBreakfast Club\u201d radio program Wednesday that Hispanic voters who went for Trump ignored his allegedly racist rhetoric and instead supported him because he was pro-life and against gay marriage:<\/p>\n

\u201cThose of us who live in DC or New York or LA,\u201d Obama argued, sometimes lack \u201ca good enough sense of how big this country is and how a lot of folks do not accept at all\u201d policies that people living in larger metropolitan areas take for granted.<\/p>\n

The former president turned to the topic of Hispanics who voted for Trump as an example.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople were surprised about a lot of Hispanic folks who voted for Trump, but there\u2019s a lot of evangelical Hispanics who, you know, the fact that Trump says racist things about Mexicans, or puts detainees, undocumented workers in cages. They think that\u2019s less important than the fact that he supports their views on gay marriage or abortion,\u201d he explained.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While Trump is indeed pro-life, gay marriage was never a focal point of his 2016 presidential campaign, nor did he make it an issue during his presidency.<\/p>\n

So with that in mind, on what did Obama base his claims? He didn\u2019t say, but it\u2019s a safe bet to guess that the basis for his remarks came out of the same old Democratic playbook that almost always boils down Republican gains among key voting groups to some form of bigotry or ignorance, because minorities who vote for Republicans couldn\u2019t possibly be rejecting the Democratic Party for legitimate reasons, right?<\/p>\n

Contrary to what Obama told the Breakfast Club hosts, the Hispanic voters who pulled the lever for Trump and other Republicans in down-ballot races\u00a0did so<\/a>\u00a0because they rejected the Democrat messaging on socialism, defunding the police, and job-killing initiatives like the Green New Deal:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u201cMost Latinos identify first as working-class Americans, and Trump spoke to that,\u201d said Josh Zaragoza, a top Democratic data specialist in Arizona, adding that Hispanic men in particular \u201care very entrepreneurial. Their economic language is more aligned with the way Republicans speak: pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, owning your own business.\u201d<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s the way the left spoke \u2014 or were framed by Trump\u2019s campaign for speaking. Calls to \u201cdefund the police,\u201d a\u00a0boycott<\/a>\u00a0of Goya Foods and the threat of socialism turned off some Latino voters. And even using the term Latinx to describe Latinos in a way that\u2019s gender-neutral only served to puzzle many Hispanics.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat Trump did is understand the basic values of Hispanics,\u201d said [Rep. Henry] Cuellar, a conservative [Texas] Democrat who survived a\u00a0primary challenge<\/a>\u00a0by the Justice Democrats group that helped propel Ocasio-Cortez to Congress. He said Latinos along the border are deeply patriotic, pro-business and favor fossil fuel development because of the jobs it brings, he said. Oil industry jobs and law enforcement were the top two issues Republicans ran on.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And though Joe Biden won the majority of votes in El Paso, Texas, Trump\u00a0did better<\/a>\u00a0with voters there than he did in 2016, despite high-profile Texas Democrats like Beto O\u2019Rourke blaming Trump for the August 2019 El Paso mass shooting that killed 23 and injured 23.<\/p>\n

What happened in the areas Trump did better in is that a growing number of Hispanic-Americans rejected Democratic identity politics and instead voted on kitchen table issues that are important to a cross-section of Americans like jobs and keeping their neighborhoods safe.<\/p>\n

Beyond Obama reaching for the tiresome \u201cbigoted\u201d crutch Democrats often use to explain away political shifts they don\u2019t understand, what was really offensive about what the former president did in his remarks about the Latino voters who supported Trump was that he essentially accused them of being willing to sell out their own communities because of social issues like abortion and gay marriage.<\/p>\n

This is not unlike how black voters and female voters are treated when they vote for Republicans. Democrats like Obama never stop to think that those voters could have legitimate disagreements with their party that have nothing to do with being backwards or wanting to live in a different time. They just fall back on the \u201cbigotry\u201d card because it\u2019s all they have left.<\/p>\n

A question minority voters need to ask themselves in future elections is this: Just who are the real bigots here? The party that says you should only think and vote a certain way (remember Biden\u2019s \u201cyou ain\u2019t black<\/a>\u201d comments?) or the party that encourages you to think for yourself and then decide?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Barack Obama Smears Trump\u2019s Latino Voters. Confounding Democrats across America, President Trump made big gains in the Latino community on Election Day in states like Florida and Texas, vastly improving his 2016 performance with them. The data doesn\u2019t lie, as Politico\u00a0explains: Despite four years of\u00a0being defined\u00a0as a racist for his rhetoric and harsh immigration policies, … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62226,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62224\/revisions\/62226"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}