This election it appears that more Hispanics have voted for Donald Trump than in past elections.
This year, in the state of Pennsylvania, Trump picked up more Latino votes than in 2020, according to an exit poll conducted by NBC. Four in 10 Hispanics from the state voted for Trump versus three in 10 four years ago.
NBC’s exit polls also showed Trump getting 45% of the Hispanic vote. In 2020, Trump only got 36% of the Hispanic vote, according to Pew Research Center.
“Latino men are breaking for Trump by a 10-point margin, 54% to 44%, in a major reversal from four years ago, according to the NBC News Exit Poll. In 2020, Latino men backed [Joe] Biden over Trump by a 23-point margin, 59% to 36%,” reports NBC News.
Mike Gonzalez, author of “A Race for the Future: How Conservatives Can Break the Liberal Monopoly on Hispanic Americans,” says there are several reasons why Hispanic voters may favor Trump this election.
“If it turns out that Trump outperforms with Hispanics, a lot of it can be attributable to the Left’s relentless pushing of woke issues. On race, on sex, on climate, etc.” Gonzalez told The Daily Signal. “The Left took extreme positions. This turned off Hispanics, who know people cannot change sex and that boys should not be competing in girls sports or using female bathrooms.”
Gonzalez, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, also suggested that Hispanics dislike the term “Latinx” and says the Left pushed the controversial descriptor too hard.
A September survey conducted by a Latino advocacy organization, The LIBRE Initiative, showed that three-quarters of Hispanics think the country is headed on the wrong track.
In a July LIBRE Initiative survey, Hispanics also didn’t seem to favor the Biden-Harris administration, with 59% saying they disapproved of President Joe Biden, and 49% thinking they worse off than they were four years ago.
The Hispanic vote has historically leaned Democrat.
In 2020, roughly 36% of Hispanic voters supported Trump versus 61% whom supported Biden, according to Pew Research Center. In 2016, 28% of Hispanics voted for Trump and 66% for Hillary Clinton.
In 2012, 71% of Hispanics voted for then-President Barack Obama versus 27% who voted for Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, according to Pew Research.
Famed Latino singer Marc Anthony endorsed Harris this year and so have other prominent Latino celebrities such as Cardi B, Jennifer Lopez, and Ricky Martin, according to ColombiaOne news.
Carlos Trujillo, senior adviser for the Trump campaign, focuses on Latino issues for the campaign and has recently embraced some other observations that many Hispanics who support Trump have fled from dictatorships, even though plenty of Americans today refer to Trump as a “would-be dictator.”
Trujillo’s family fled from communist leader Fidel Castro, a Cuban so-called dictator back in the mid-1960s.
“A dictator doesn’t leave office. A dictator persecutes their political opponents, their opponent’s supporters, and weaponizes institutions,” Trujillo told a reporter for The New Yorker. “Trump never did that. Democrats have.”
