So, the Latino vote is slipping away to the Democratic Party, right?
They are not supporting the President or the Republican Party because ... they are pro-secure borders?
They are pro-life? They want this country protected, and Republicans campaign on caring for family?
The truth is that the corrupt media has gone into overdrive to smear Trump and create wedges between the President and the GOP with Latino voters.
It does not appear to be working, however ...
The 55-year-old Colombian immigrant is a pastor at an evangelical
church in suburban Denver. Initially repelled by Trump in 2016, he’s been
heartened by the president’s steps to protect religious groups and appoint
judges who oppose abortion rights. More important, Gonzalez sees Trump’s
presidency as part of a divine plan.
“It doesn’t matter what I think,” Gonzalez said of the president. “He
was put there.”
Colorado has gone Democratic in the last three elections. The demographics are changing, and not just in terms of ethnicity. The state is taking in more intra-national "Refugees" from blue states like California and New York, who sadly are bringing their same left-wing lunacy into the state. What's worse, a handful of well-connected billionaires have taken over with their big money political machinery.
We need more people with conservative credentials and liberal bank accounts to help make the difference.
So far, the Latino vote has not disappeared entirely from Republican considerations.
Though Latino voters are a key part of the Democratic coalition, there
is a larger bloc of reliable Republican Latinos than many think. And the GOP’s
position among Latinos has not weakened during the Trump administration,
despite the president’s rhetoric against immigrants and the party’s shift to
the right on immigration.
Yes, this bloc of Latino Republicans is discernible, and it's growing by the day. George W. Bush won 44% of the Hispanic vote in 2004. That factor should not be lost on anyone. By the way, Bush 43 didn't mention amnesty one time.
In November’s elections, 32 percent of Latinos voted for Republicans,
according to AP VoteCast data. The survey of more than 115,000 midterm voters —
including 7,738 Latino voters — was conducted for The Associated Press by NORC
at the University of Chicago.
By the way, the only reason that California went from bad to worse is due to ballot harvesting and voter fraud. One is now legal, the other has been going on for the last six years, and no one wants to do anything about it.
Other surveys also found roughly one-third of Latinos supporting the
GOP. Data from the Pew Research Center and from exit polls suggests that a
comparable share of about 3 in 10 Latino voters supported Trump in 2016. That
tracks the share of Latinos supporting Republicans for the last decade.
The stability of Republicans’ share of the Latino vote frustrates
Democrats, who say actions like Trump’s family separation policy and his
demonization of an immigrant caravan should drive Latinos out of the GOP.
That's actually quite a racist statement, if anyone assesses it on its face value. Do the Democratic Party leaders really believe that all refugees and illegal aliens are ... Latino?
“The question is not are Democrats winning the Hispanic vote — it’s why
aren’t Democrats winning the Hispanic vote 80-20 or 90-10 the way black voters
are?” said Fernand Amandi, a Miami-based Democratic pollster. He argues
Democrats must invest more in winning Latino voters.
The media spin is stifling isn't it? "Why isn't the Democratic Party winning 90% of the vote," as if they should be in the first place?! Can anyone imagine a headline which reads "Why does anyone vote Democrat?" I wonder why?!
The VoteCast data shows that, like white voters, Latinos are split by
gender — 61 percent of men voted Democratic in November, while 69 percent of
women did. And while Republican-leaning Latinos can be found everywhere in the
country, two groups stand out as especially likely to back the GOP —
evangelicals and veterans.
Evangelical and veteran voters care about issues beyond skin color. These demographics need love, respect, and support. They care about this country. They are not invested in skin color, ethnicity, or racialism. Their value systems of God and country make all the difference and supersede their ethnic background.
Evangelicals comprised about one-quarter of Latino voters, and veterans
were 13 percent. Both groups were about evenly split between the two parties.
Mike Madrid, a Republican strategist in California, said those groups have
reliably provided the GOP with many Latino votes for years.
Mike Madrid sucks.
“They stick and they do not go away,” Madrid said. Much as with Trump’s
own core white voters, attacks on the president and other Republicans for being
anti-immigrant “just make them dig in even more,” he added.
Of course these voters dig in and don't back off. They have being lied to, and all these statements that Trump is "anti-immigrant" have turned into full-on lies. It's simply not true.
Sacramento-based Rev. Sam Rodriguez, one of Trump’s spiritual advisers,
said evangelical Latinos have a clear reason to vote Republican. “Why do 30
percent of Latinos still support Trump? Because of the Democratic Party’s obsession
with abortion,” Rodriguez said. “It’s life and religious liberty and everything
else follows.”
Individual liberty and life matter to many people. Republicans would be fools to look the other way or abandon those core issues.
Some conservative Latinos say their political leanings make them feel
more like a minority than their ethnicity does. Irina Vilariño, 43, a Miami
restauranteur and Cuban immigrant, said she had presidential bumper stickers
for Sen. John McCain, Mitt Romney and Trump scratched off her car. She said she
never suffered from discrimination growing up in a predominantly white south
Florida community, “but I remember during the McCain campaign being
discriminated against because I supported him.”
Now, who's the one discriminating? The Left! The La Raza haters who demand that Latinos vote Democrat all the time. They are shamed for speaking for themselves and voting their own way. They refuse to be bullied into going along with the crowd.
The 2018 election was good to Democrats, but Florida disappointed them.
They couldn’t convince enough of the state’s often right-leaning Cuban-American
voters to support Sen. Bill Nelson, who was ousted by the GOP’s
Spanish-speaking Gov. Rick Scott, or rally behind Democrats’ gubernatorial
candidate, Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, who lost to Republican Rep. Ron
DeSantis.
Thank God that Florida stayed true to free markets, free enterprise, and free people. Some of the Congressional districts did flip blue, however. Let's hope that Republicans are willing to fight for what the voters want and then rally for their support in 2020. That is going to be another huge election year.
Still, in the rest of the country, there were signs that pleased
Democrats. Latinos voted at high rates in an election that saw record-setting
turnout among all demographic groups. Latinos normally have among the worst
midterm turnout rates, and while official data won’t be available for months, a
number of formerly-Republican congressional districts in California and New
Mexico flipped Democratic.
That’s why Republicans shouldn’t take solace from being able to
consistently win about one-third of Latinos, said Madrid. They’re still losing
two-thirds of an electorate that’s being goaded into the voting booth by Trump.
Madrid wants to lose Donald Trump and open up the borders. This guy is everything wrong with the consultant infestation in the state of California. Take a hike, Mike!
“That is contributing to the death spiral of the Republican Party —
even if it holds at 30 percent,” Madrid said. “That’s a route to death, it’s
just a slower one.”
LOL! The number of Latino Republican voters is getting bigger
Gonzalez, the pastor, sees the trend in Colorado. He distributed
literature across Spanish-speaking congregations supporting Republican
gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton, who was crushed by Democratic Rep.
Jared Polis as the GOP lost every race for statewide office.
The funny thing, though, is that Polis is openly gay. I wonder how many of the church congregants new about that? Does Polis have any interest in protecting the life, liberty, and property of each Coloradan?
Gonzalez understands the anger among some Latinos at the GOP and Trump
for what he says is a false impression of a solely hardline immigration stance.
“In the community that is not informed, that is following the rhetoric of the
media, there’s a view that Donald Trump is a bad guy,” Gonzalez said.
Evangelicals “understand that he’s there to defend values.”
There you go! Evangelicals and veterans know that the media is a total fraud.
Oscar Murillo, a 37-year-old horse trainer, is not a fan of Trump’s.
But he tries to stay open-minded about Republicans. He voted for the GOP
candidate for state attorney general, who visited the congregation before the
election. “He’s in the same party as Trump, but he seems different,” Murillo
said.
I know plenty of voters who do not like Trump's style, but his substance is making all the difference. They like the robust economy. They love that he cares about life and family. More voters, hopefully, will look past some of the bluster that they do not like (I like it), and more people will realize that Trump as President is doing better for the country than any of the Democratic contenders lining up to run against him in 2020.
Final Reflection
It's disgusting that the press will go to strange, strained lengths to promote the left, the Democratic Party, and the demographic demise of the Republican Party. Pat Buchanan trumpeted their demise repeatedly on the McLaughlin Group, and yet time and again Republicans have been doing surprisingly well in key states, targeted frequently by Democrats, by the way.
The House Elections for 2018 were a strong backlash, to be sure, but this kind of throw-out is customary. It's very rare for the party in power in the White House to retain seats during the first midterm. It happens, but not that often.
At any rate, the Latino vote was 27% for Trump in 2016. If his support has crept up to 32%, that's great news, but the ascent is high enough, fast enough. Can this change? Yes, but Republicans need to win the culture wars, not just focus on winning elections. They are not going to win big playing up amnesty, open borders, and lawlessness, either. There is something about pride in one's nation which engages many people, especially men and women who immigrated to this country--legally.
The Latino vote is not squarely in the Democratic Party camp. Steady, yes, and steadily moving into the Trump column, no matter what the press may report.
