Can we please stop with the "Trump gained with Latino voters" hot takes? If you talked to ANY academic, commentator or journalist who has covered Latino voters over the last 40 years, the GOP has historically gotten a third of Latino voters nationally.
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NOBODY who has been following Trump and what his campaign did this cycle is surprised by the support he got. NOBODY.
The conversation needs to be this instead: there was NEVER a unified Latino voting bloc on the national level. Ever.
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Start thinking about how to specifically address these pockets:
SW/W (consistently voting blue)
Midwest (voters that can take you over top)
The South (see what's happening in Georgia/NC)
Texas (the elusive Holy Grail that will change)
Florida (not the only game in town any more)
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Why did Trump perform at the same GOP level historically with 1/3 of Latinos?
Because that is the base. Because he invested in the places he needed to invest in. Because the Latin Americanization of the left/right message works for this base. And so on and so on.
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So for all of you who are now writing really simplistic takes on Trump and Latino voter "gains," you have homework to do.
Listen to this
@LatinoUSA
podcast:
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And, oh yeah, actually FOLLOW all the AMAZING Latino and Latina voices that have been discussing and dissecting this for years.
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And take this thread by
@BermudezWrites
and plaster it on your walls.
It’s laughable that in 2020, this country still needs to be reminded, Sesame Street style, that Latinos are not a monolith & the Latino vote is a mirage. This misconception comes from how little u bother knowing us, how superficially u cover us & how absent we are in newsrooms.
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Finally, and this is an important point: if you look at where Trump got the support in the states, it's because his campaign worked to connect with the voters it needed to get and then rinse and repeat. It was effective, and more effective than Biden in some states.
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Adding another great thread by the FABULOUS
@SonjaFrancine
, who you ALL need to follow.
Thread: The
#LatinoVote
is complex and nuanced, yet American electoral politics either ignores these voters and their preferences or blames them for their loss.
Listen to my hot take with
@AirTalk
on the willful neglect of Latinos by both parties.
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@carloseats
@ReichlinMelnick
I mean, this little thread comes from reading this incredibly dumb take below. Am in the middle of doing a
@PostOpinions
piece about all this and I am changing my draft again LOL.
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@julito77
He gained with Latino voters in South Florida (cubans, venezuelans) which helped him to win that state. I thought this was a good take on that. Biden didn't quite manage to connect with that bunch.
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@ruedareport
yeah but everyone knew that for two years. this is not some new discovery. I was saying that in 2017.
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@julito77
It would appear he gained in South Florida. That would be about the only place he gained Latino voters. That was only Cubans and Venezuelans and not that huge of a gain.
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@julito77
So it is ok that the Dems continue to ignore the 50% of eligible Latino voters that don’t vote. And of those that do vote, hand 40% to the gop?
But If the Dems tried to win Latinos, they probably would then learn there are some differences among them.
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@ArturoCazares
am not saying that and I have always said that Democrats have to really begin to look at it like a swing state strategy, this doesn't leave Dems off the hook, which is another related issue
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