Biden didn't underperform with Latinos, Trump added to his numbers

[octoberlib]

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Conversely, Obama did well in '12 bc he dug into discrete communities and didn't treat them all the same. Obama's efforts w Puerto Ricans in Orlando - in local media, non-traditional advertising, community organizing - might have won him the state against Romney.


Punctuation mark on this: Biden & Hillary basically got the same number of votes in Miami-Dade. Biden didn't "underperform." Trump added ... 200,000 VOTES to his 2016 number.

[bdamomma]

1. Weird

it's the same people who Stephen Mlller wants out.

[Ilsa]

2. How could Puerto Ricans support trump after

He left them to DIE after a major hurricane?

[JI7]

4. The ones voting for him in Florida didn't die

Just like with Covid. Yeah, people are dying but not THEM . That's how a lot of people think and they are just the type to support Trump. That's why Trump appeals to them. they would do the fucked up things he does to make money.

[JonLP24]

5. Biden actually did well with the Puerto Rican vote in Florida

[Tommymac]

7. I know several Latinos from different countries...

And the conservative ones are almost always 40 and older Males, first generation immigrant citizens, whose key issues is Guns.

They believe the NRA bullshit. They remember the authoritarian CIA backed governments in their original countries were constantly being tagged by Nationlal Fruit as 'Socialist Communists".

They remember Chile and Guatemala and Columbia and Argentina and Cuba and Nicaragua and...the list goes on and on.

And they remember the LACK of guns among the peons.

This along with the whole Catholic Abortion thing.

Tough groups to talk to.

[Ilsa]

8. Thanks. That makes more tangible sense than most

Explanations of their worldview.

[snowybirdie]

3. Perhaps

The Hispanic people here and voting resent the people trying to immigrate here from primarily Central America? Its that old, "I've got mine" attitude. Class structure looking down on others. Sad, but they may like rtumps immigration plan.

[Bigredhunk]

6. IDK

I had a talk with a cousin with whom I rarely get to see a couple of months ago. He's more on the conservative side these days. He lives in TX (San Antonio area). He said that the Latinos down there are some of the most racist people you'll meet. He said they hate blacks. He also said they hate Mexicans (and other Latinos) trying to get into America. He said they refer to Latinos trying to come here as "wetbacks." He's a pretty smart guy (except for being a little conservative), and I have no reason to believe he's lying.

I read a bunch on twitter tonight too that Latinos don't vote as a monolith. That is, Latinos in CA vote differently than those in TX or FL.