When it's all said and done, Democrats may have won one battle, but Republicans won the war. Yes we're still sorting out the Presidency. But one things for sure, Republicans won the war. The blue wave was definitely put on hold. The Republicans winning so many house battles. The state house victories etc.
The number of Legal Latinos voting Republican was amazing. Democrats made a mistake thinking all Latinos were like Texas and California's undocumented immigrants. Welfare for all, and health care free for them. Plus jobs for them vs legal immigrants or American citizens. This from Politico.
Despite four years of being defined as a racist for his rhetoric and harsh immigration policies, Trump improved his margins in 78 of the nation’s 100 majority-Hispanic counties. And he did better with Latinos in exit polls of each of the top 10 battleground states, a POLITICO review of election data found. “About 97 percent of Latinos don’t say ‘Latinx,’” Zaragoza said, referring to a Pew Research poll on the subject.In interviews with more than a dozen experts on Hispanic voters in six states, no factor was as salient as Trump’s blue-collar appeal for Latinos.
[Emphasis added]“Most Latinos identify first as working-class Americans, and Trump spoke to that,” said Josh Zaragoza, a top Democratic data specialist in Arizona, adding that Hispanic men in particular “are very entrepreneurial. Their economic language is more aligned with the way Republicans speak: pulling yourself up by your bootstraps, owning your own business.” [Emphasis added]
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“Most Latinos in this country are working class,” Enos said. “One would have to assume that this identity of being working class is more important than this identity of being Latino.” [Emphasis added]
What say you?
