How Trump Made Huge Gains Among Latino Voters

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🗓️ 8 November 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Political strategist Mike Madrid says that democrats are in for a “long overdue reckoning” following an election where Trump support among self-identifying Hispanic voters was up some 14 percentage points compared to 2020, according to an Edison Research exit poll. We talk to Madrid about why he says the democratic party is less ethnically diverse than it was and what it needs to do to regain working class and Latino voters. Guests: Mike Madrid, political strategist, his new book is "The Latino Century: How America's Largest Minority is Transforming Democracy" ; co-founder, The Lincoln Project Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.5	Coming up on forum, as Democrats lick their wounds following Tuesday's election, one takeaway
1:12.3	is very clear. Their policies and messaging did not appeal to large numbers of Latinos. In fact,
1:19.0	Trump won an estimated 45% of Latino voters nationwide. That's a huge increase since 2016,
1:25.7	in spite of his anti-immigrant rhetoric, promises to deport millions of
1:29.4	immigrants, and saying that immigrants are poisoning the blood of the United States.
1:34.2	Republican political consultant Mike Madrid has been warning Democrats for years that Latino
1:39.1	support was slipping away. His book is The Latino Century. He joins us right after this news.
1:48.3	This is Forum. I'm Scott Schaefer in Fermina Kim. Well, following the shalacking they got in
1:54.2	the presidential election Tuesday night, the Democratic Party has a lot of questions to answer.
1:59.9	Near the top of that list, why are Latino voters
2:02.7	drifting toward Republicans, despite Trump's hostile rhetoric aimed at immigrants? Republican
2:08.6	political consultant Mike Madrid is an early co-founder of the anti-Trump Lincoln Project. He's got
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