Just a reminder. Male Latinos are literally the reason Trump is in office right now. Kamala had the black and white support to win, but make Latinos swung like 40 pts hard right.
White racism yeah. If we removed the right to vote from white people and only let hispanics, asians, and black people vote then Harris would have won by a large margin.
There should be a basic test of “are these actual problems” for voting, i.e. do immigrants actually hurt the economy, and most white people(who voted) would fail that test.
Secondly, It gets complicated fast and I dont think can be easily reduced to “swung hard right”. The “latino” vote is diverse and encompasses a lot of peoples: Mexico, central, south America, and Cuba (All pretty different folks with different political pressures, history, and biases) Immigration, economic opportunity, skepticism of the democratic party caring about them, anger about gaza and disapproval of Bidens justice policies broadly, and a general rejection of the economic status quo all factored in. By how much? Hard to get great polling data on that. But Biden and then Harris’s message was literally that “nothing will fundamentally change”, at a time when his approval rates were very low.
This whole comment thread is angry people shitting on Latinos as if they were the problem instead of white voters.
Just a reminder. Male Latinos are literally the reason Trump is in office right now. Kamala had the black and white support to win, but make Latinos swung like 40 pts hard right.
Indeed and racism played a heavy role while voting.
White racism yeah. If we removed the right to vote from white people and only let hispanics, asians, and black people vote then Harris would have won by a large margin.
So we’re all in on not letting whites vote, right? https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2024
There should be a basic test of “are these actual problems” for voting, i.e. do immigrants actually hurt the economy, and most white people(who voted) would fail that test.
That’s supposed to be the journalists work. But you have Fox News employees instead…
This is some bullshit, on several levels.
White people voted 42%Harris, 57%Trump.
Hispanics voted 51% Harris, 46% Trump.
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2024 Does that look like a hispanic voting problem or a white problem?
Secondly, It gets complicated fast and I dont think can be easily reduced to “swung hard right”. The “latino” vote is diverse and encompasses a lot of peoples: Mexico, central, south America, and Cuba (All pretty different folks with different political pressures, history, and biases) Immigration, economic opportunity, skepticism of the democratic party caring about them, anger about gaza and disapproval of Bidens justice policies broadly, and a general rejection of the economic status quo all factored in. By how much? Hard to get great polling data on that. But Biden and then Harris’s message was literally that “nothing will fundamentally change”, at a time when his approval rates were very low.
This whole comment thread is angry people shitting on Latinos as if they were the problem instead of white voters.