Why Are More Latino Voters Supporting Trump?

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

WNYC Studios and The New Yorker

Politics, Obama, News, Wnyc, Washington, Barack, President, Lizza, Wickenden

4.2 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Despite a surge of enthusiasm for Vice-President Kamala Harris’s campaign, the 2024 race remains extremely competitive. And one factor very much in Donald Trump’s favor is an increased share of support from Latino voters. Anti-immigrant messaging from Trump and the Republican Party has not turned off Latino voters; he won a higher percentage of Latino voters in 2020 than in 2016, and he was roughly tied with President Biden at the time Biden stepped out of the race in July. Geraldo Cadava, the author of “The Hispanic Republican,” wrote about the Republicans’ strategy for The New Yorker. He spoke with prominent Latino Trump supporters about why the message is resonating, and how they feel about all the signs reading “Mass Deportation Now.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	This is the political scene and I'm David Remnick.
0:07.0	This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC studios and the New Yorker.
0:21.0	Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. With all the headlines about
0:25.8	Kamala Harris's surging campaign and poll numbers that indicate a very real
0:31.2	change is taking place. The 2024 race remains extremely close.
0:36.6	Harris and Tim Waltz can hardly expect to win a national election on vibes alone.
0:42.1	Any Democrat or anyone really who remembers 2016 will tell
0:47.2	you that it would be kind of crazy to write off Donald Trump just yet. So today
0:52.4	we're going to look at two critical aspects
0:54.4	of the Republicans race to reclaim the White House.
0:58.8	Back in 2013, after Mitt Romney's loss to Barack Obama, a Republican autopsy of the campaign
1:05.3	said that Latino voters were being turned off by the party's hard-lined stance on immigration.
1:11.2	The report said if Hispanic Americans hear that the GOP doesn't want them in the United States,
1:17.3	they won't pay attention to our next sentence.
1:20.1	Well, that turned out to be wrong.
1:23.0	Since 2015, Donald Trump has said any number of false, misleading, and racist things about people from Mexico and Central America.
1:31.0	He put in place policies like child separation at the border.
1:34.9	And yet his share of the Latino vote increased in 2020 and the trend continues.
1:41.7	Comparing Trump and Biden back in July,
1:45.0	Latino voters were split evenly.
1:48.0	All of this was on Geraldo Kadava's mind
1:50.0	when he covered the Republican National Convention for the New Yorker.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from WNYC Studios and The New Yorker, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.