Why More Hispanics Voted for Trump in 2020

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🗓️ 5 November 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump did historically well in terms of the Hispanic vote. In both Texas and Florida, the Republican nominee did well among Hispanics. Per NBC News, “55 percent of Florida’s Cuban-American vote went to Trump, according to NBC News exit polls, while 30 percent of Puerto Ricans and 48 percent of 'other Latinos' backed Trump.” Nationally, he went from 28 percent among Hispanics to 32 percent.

What happened here? Were particular issues at stake in the 2020 election affected the Hispanic community’s votes? What about Trump's immigration policies? And lastly, is there even a Hispanic voting bloc--or should we look at these voters in a different way?

Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss all this and more.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, November 5th. I'm Rachel Del Judas.
0:10.0	Today's show is a special election edition. We still don't have all the election results,
0:14.8	but we will be talking with Mike Gonzales, a senior fellow in the Douglas and Sarah Allison
0:19.0	Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation, about the significant amount of support Trump received
0:24.2	from Hispanic voters and why Biden lost ground to Hispanic voters that Hillary Clinton
0:28.7	gained in 2016.
0:30.3	And please don't forget, if you're enjoying this podcast, please be sure to leave a review or a five-star rating on Apple
0:36.7	Podcast and encourage others to subscribe. We're joined today on the Daily Signal Podcast by Mike Gonzales. He's a senior fellow in the
0:52.4	Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation.
0:56.0	Mike, it's great to have you with us on the Daily Signal Podcast.
0:59.0	It's entirely my pleasure to be able to speak to you and to your audience as a daily signal.
1:04.2	Well, thanks. It's great to have you back on.
1:07.0	So while votes, Mike are still being counted and we still don't know for sure who the next
1:11.5	president will be.
1:13.0	President Trump did historically win well
1:15.4	in terms of the Hispanic vote per NBC.
1:18.8	55% of Florida's Cuban-American vote
1:21.6	went to Trump, according to NBC News exit polls, while 30% of Puerto Ricans
1:26.5	and 48% of other Latinos backed Trump.
1:30.3	What is your perspective on all this?
1:32.3	Well, I mean, one thing that it did do is that it showed what you just said, the Hispanic vote does not exist.
1:38.0	I don't know how often I need to say it.
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