What Draws Latino Voters to Trump
The Political Scene | The New Yorker
The New Yorker
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🗓️ 22 November 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
How is it that Donald Trump, who won the Presidency with racist rhetoric and a promise to build a wall along the southern border, has managed to make gains in the Latino community with each election cycle since 2016? Geraldo Cadava, a historian and New Yorker contributing writer, joins Tyler Foggatt to consider recent polling and the issues that may be driving voting trends. Trump, Cadava explains, appeals to conservative and evangelical Latinos by presenting himself as pro-business and a defender of religious freedom. The community’s burgeoning embrace of Trump comes as a wake-up call to Democrats who assumed that the changing demographics of the United States would guarantee their Party future victories. Cadava argues that, in order to maintain their hold on the Latino vote, Democrats will need to find effective responses to Trump’s promises.
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| 0:46.9 | Would you say that the Democratic Party has been taking Latino support for granted? |
| 0:51.1 | Yeah, I would agree with the statement that the Democratic Party has been taking Latinos |
| 0:56.0 | for granted for a long time and that the 2020 election in particular kind of really |
| 1:00.6 | opened their eyes to the fact that the vote is up for grabs. That's Geraldo Kadava, a New Yorker |
| 1:07.6 | contributing writer and a historian. He has written extensively about Latino voters |
| 1:12.3 | and most recently about their growing support for Donald Trump. |
| 1:16.1 | What may have looked like a minor change |
| 1:18.0 | has turned out to be a continuing trend |
| 1:19.7 | that might decide the next election |
| 1:21.4 | and shape the larger American political landscape. |
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| 1:27.1 | I'm Tyler Foggett, and I'm a senior |
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