did latinos help joe biden win the white
house
or nearly cost him the u.s election
well it turns out both are true biden
beat donald trump among latinos by two
to one a critical margin but it was the
president
who increased his share of the latino
vote compared to 2016.
and that was crucial in key states
democrats
sort of thought that the latino
community
would naturally be drawn to their party
given the
negative rhetoric by donald trump
everyone thinks that if you're a latino
then you're democrat and you're for open
borders and i don't
i don't see that but a lot of latinos
got
most of them that i know got here the
right way and so we care about a lot of
other things other than just immigration
nikola hood used to be a democrat but he
says the party has changed
and its values no longer align with his
personal beliefs
there's literally nothing in common
nothing
i mean from how you treat the flag to
whether you stand up for the anthem
for the family unit and whether we want
to respect the nuclear family unit
to abortion to immigration
to taxes to whatever
in texas we have uh primarily
mexican-americans
they're traditionally conservative they
traditionally consider themselves
more american than they do mexican
i guess i hear the the saying of the
border
across us we didn't cross the border
rings true
democrats hoped they could turn texas
blue in 2020
but conservative latinos helped keep it
read
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in florida where almost half of latinos
voted for trump
it was cuban and venezuelan americans
who proved decisive
i feel like i was immediately oppressed
for
saying that i supported trump my parents
came to this country
with nothing and they were able to
create an amazing life
socialism is not the answer to our
nation's problems these communities come
with different experiences
they come with different acculturations
different beliefs about how
government should intervene in their
lives but in arizona where immigration
is a bigger
issue biden did perform much better
despite criticism that he didn't do
enough to reach out to latino voters
i saw 902 but i haven't seen 833. so we
fell to
activists to get out the vote this is a
community that is progressive
it is a community particularly in
phoenix that is first
and second generation and so the message
of immigration resonated with that
community
and uh they went to the polls and showed
their support
we all remember 2016 we remember the
feeling i
remember that feeling i literally have
goose bumps thinking about that day
i wasn't able to vote so people were
like well you didn't show up to vote i
was like i couldn't
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this election has proved that the latino
vote with all of its diversity
really matters and that politicians
should never take it for granted
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