What I do and what I try to encourage politicians to do is not knock on our door
every four years with the taco truck and try to get our vote.
Don't say our vote matters when our lives don't matter.
You have to engage in these communities every day, not every four years.
>> Chris Wallace sat down with actress Eva Longoria to discuss how a larger
portion of the Latino vote switched over from the Democratic Party to vote for
Republican candidates.
And the big question is why did that happen?
Now to be clear, Democrats still enjoy widespread support among Latino voters.
But before we get to the details of what transpired in 2022, why don't we
hear a little more from that conversation and then I'll fill in the blanks.
>> What is it that the Democrats are missing that some Hispanics are now
saying, you know, maybe that I've got a place in the Republican Party?
>> Well, I think the number one issue for all Americans including Latinos,
which Latinos are Americans, is the economy.
That's the number one issue.
People think our number one issue is immigration or abortion.
And it's jobs and an economy and
I think there's a party that speaks better to that.
I'm not saying they have a better track record.
I'm just saying they have a better marketing plan,
I think, because I think the Democrats have done some
progressive things when it comes to creating jobs.
So who's creating the jobs, our community.
We're creating a lot of jobs and a lot for this country.
And so I think they're looking for somebody who has the business solution,
the economic solution to their pocketbook, to their monthly bills,
who's gonna help me.
>> And so when Republicans talk about lower taxes and less government spending,
that's attractive.
>> I think it's attractive.
Yeah, I think a lot of the talking points for
both sides are very deceiving.
>> Definitely agree with deceiving talking points from both sides.
And I agree with the heart of the conversation,
which is to say that what drives Latino voters and quite honestly, voters in
general is what impacts them economically, what impacts them financially.
So just to give you some numbers,
let's take a look at this CNN exit poll data from 2022.
And it shows you that in 2018, you had 69% of Latino voters voting for
Democratic candidates, 29% voting for Republicans.
Well, that 29% for Republican candidates jumped up to 39% in 2022.
So you see a larger share of Latino voters supporting Republican candidates.
I also want to show this next graphic which demonstrates
that there was a bigger change among Latino men, right?
So in 2018, you see a larger portion of Latino men voting for
Democratic candidates.
But that gap narrowed considerably in 2022 among Latino male voters,
changed a little bit for Latino women but not as much.
It's not as pronounced as you can see when it comes to Latino men.
So I have more details on this Cenk.
But one other thing I'll just quickly say is it's important to also remember that
the Latino community is not monolithic, right?
So I think that's a big mistake that pollsters make, that reporters make
because they talk about Latinos as if they're all the same and
they all have the same interests.
I think voters in general prioritize the economy as one of
the issues that matters to them.
But when it comes to cultural differences, when it comes to social conservatism,
that's pretty prominent among some Latino voters,
which I think is worth talking about as well.
>> Yeah, so you see the numbers going down from a 40 point lead for
the Democrats to a 20 point lead and it's going in the wrong direction.
So why do Latinos vote for Democrats in the first place and
why have they stopped going in that direction?
Well, number one, there's only one real reason why Latinos vote for
Democrats is because Republicans call Latino immigrants, dirty criminals.
It's not complicated.
They do it all the time.
Trump ran his whole 2016 campaign on they're sending rapists and
criminals from Mexico, from Latin America.
My God, there's a caravan coming.
This is in the ensuing years.
Tucker Carlson does this segment.
They're dirty.
They're changing America.
We gotta have more white babies because the Latinos are ruining America and
the way that it is.
Now, if the idiots didn't do that,
I think they would actually Republicans would get a majority of the Latino vote.
Why, because a lot of new immigrants are generally conservative in nature,
and religion is a big part of Latino culture and
they have conservative family values, they would be.
And they believe in the American dream.
If you went back to a Republican party, that is not insane, they could easily get
not just a little majority, I think a significant majority of Latino votes.
But their problem is they hate them and they say they hate them.
So that's why the Democrats were getting the Latino vote.
So why have they stopped gaining momentum in that direction?
Because the Democrats never deliver.
And that's Eva Longoria is totally right about that.
She's like, they come by with a stupid taco truck and
they tell us all these pretty little lies, and then they for
four years they sit around and do nothing for us, especially on the economy.
That's exactly right.
That's not identity politics.
Here at TYT, we're not big fans of identity politics.
She's saying, but did you pass anything?
Did you actually affect anyone's life in a positive way?
And the answer for Democrats is always no, Republicans are big and bad and
terrible, which is true.
And then they stop, but they never, ever, ever, ever deliver.
If they actually delivered one or two pieces of legislation that helped everyone
including Latinos on the economic front, they'd get 80% of the Latino vote.
>> Look, both political parties are in a lot of trouble,
which is a funny thing to say considering this is a story about Republicans making
gains among Latino voters.
But those Latino voters are going to hit the same brick wall that they hit with
the Democratic Party.
And sooner or later, they're going to realize, well,
Republicans actually have no interest in helping us with the economy either.
The fact of the matter is for the longest time,
before corruption was baked into our system thanks to the Supreme Court and
its ruling in Citizens United, you had one party, the Republican party that
really leaned heavily into the culture wars to accumulate power, right?
Because their economic views were not at all popular.
The majority of Americans do want a social safety net.
The majority of Americans love Social Security and
Medicare and do not want to cut it.
So in lieu of talking about their incredibly unpopular ideas,
they focused on culture war issues.
Now, increasingly that has happened with the Democratic Party as well because now,
they are bribed by the same corporate interests which runs counter to doing
anything in regard to legislation that would actually improve people's
lives materially.
So that is what is transpiring.
The Democratic Party, and I'm talking about the mainstream Democrats, are under
the assumption that they can just pander to Latino voters by just talking about
immigration, which by the way, they also dropped the ball on that issue as well.
They're not doing,
the Biden administration is doing a great job on immigration.
I mean, he extended Trump era immigration policies.
So you think if you're gonna lean on that, you might as well at least deliver on it,
but they haven't even done that.
So it's just, yeah, this, none of this is surprising guys.
What people care about the most is their ability to pay their bills and provide for
their families.
That is the number one most important thing for everyone in the country.
>> So look.
>> It's not rocket science.
>> And by the way, Chris Wallace is part of the problem in this case.
Did you see the sleight of hand he did at the end?
He said, so Latinos want lower government spending.
>> No, they want tax cuts.
He said tax cuts.
>> No, no, he said both, tax cuts and lower government spending.
They might want tax cuts, I don't know, that's debatable.
You'd have to ask a poll question and ask it in a fair way.
Lower government spending, nobody said anything about that.
I've never seen a Latino, by the way,
I've almost never seen anyone say, boy, I really want lower government spending.
No, those are generally right wingers who are white who think it's going to go to
minorities, right?
Those are the people that say that.
No, what they actually want is help in their real lives.
If the Democrats passed, for example, universal health care coverage,
they would win for the next 40 years straight because all of a sudden
everybody be like, I'm not gonna get bankrupted.
My kid's not gonna die when they get sick.
We're a developed nation now and we can rest easy.
My god, they'd never stop winning but they won't do that because they're corrupt and
both sides are corrupt.
So we're playing nonsense games about pick your poison.
Which one do you want?
Do you want the Republicans who hate you and they are going to do nothing for
you or do you want the Democrats who say they love you and
are going to do nothing for you?
>> And by the way,
I just want to provide some evidence to what Longoria is talking about there.
And she has been involved as a surrogate for the Democratic Party,
which is why they're having that conversation.
So there was polling, Pew Research for
instance found that 80% of all Hispanic registered voters said the economy is very
important when making their decision on who to vote for in the midterm election.
When broken down by party, 90% of Hispanic Republicans and Republican
leaning registered voters said the economy is very important to their vote.
3 in 4, or 75% of Hispanic Democratic and
Democratic leaning voters said the economy is very important to their vote.
And while Democrats again love bragging about their weak sauce infrastructure
bill, that's what they tend to lean on as evidence that they're actually delivering
on their promises.
Latino voters are not impressed.
A survey by Pew Research Center released last September also showed that more than
half, 54% of registered Latino voters disapprove of Biden's job as president,
while 45% approve of Biden's job as president.
Those are not good numbers, especially when it comes to a particular
demographic that has done well with the Democratic Party.
>> Yeah, look.
So there's two different problems the Democrats have.
Again, Eva Longoria's right, their marketing sucks.
So if I was buying every day, I'd do two press conferences about there's
the lowest unemployment in American history.
Lowest unemployment, lowest unemployment is one of the things that Latino voters
care about disproportionately to other demographics is jobs and wages.
So he could brag about that, but
doesn't because Democrats think it's uncouth to brag.
Okay, but there's the second larger problem that we've been talking about,
which is that they never deliver.
So what do they deliver on?
They deliver for corporations.
So if you're a giant transportation company or a construction company or
union that services them, you're gonna get billions of dollars.
But companies don't vote, real people vote.
And there's been, they haven't even seen anything built yet, right?
But they know the billions of dollars.
They brag about the semiconductor industry.
Whether you think that was the right bill to pass or not,
dp you think that average voter is gonna be like, thank god,
the semiconductor industry got $54 billion of our money.
Boy, god, no, I can't wait to vote for Democrats.
You'd have to be so stupid that you work in Washington media to believe that,
literally they will get zero votes for that, zero.
It's just a giant giveaway to enormous corporations, okay.
So what can they do that's reasonable?
Universal health care.
Well, that's really hard, you could say there's nothing they could do.
First of all, Joe Biden is against it, Nancy Pelosi is against it.
They're all against Medicare for all.
So don't pretend there's nothing they could do.
If you're an average Democratic voter, they don't want to do it.
But okay, let's take something super simple, paid family leave,
84% of Americans want it.
If all of a sudden people get pregnant and they know they're going to get two weeks
paid off, I'm sorry, 12 weeks paid off, they'd be thrilled with that.
That materially affects their lives.
And the Democrats bring that to you, you're gonna love them just like you love
them for FDR when he brought you Social Security and
re-elected him four times or re-elected him three times, he served four terms.
So the problem is corporations control everything, including both parties.
And so just voters keep bouncing back and forth, back and forth trying
to find one decent person who's going to actually deliver on their promises.
And I gotta be honest with you, we're in the news business,
I haven't found one yet.
So they're all talk, never any action.