Rejection of inflation and immigration drove Latinos to vote for Trump

“The Reason why number one latino they have voted To (donald, trump it’s because They don’t want illegal immigrants to take away their jobs.“, he tells El Periodico George Lombardi, Former Republican presidential advisorIn terms of increase in arrivals with Joe BidenAfter restoring the right to request asylum which Trump had ended under the cover of the Covid pandemic. “There are Hispanics who have been here for many years, have a house, a car and more they vote To protect him, Not based on who your ancestors were“adds Founder of Latinos for Trump groupWho believe that they voted for him not in spite of his anti-immigration policies, but because of them.

His work in organizing this social movement has been reward In these elections: Support for Trump among Latinos has increased 14 percentage points compared to 2020According to the exit poll of Edison Research Center. Specifically, Trump has won 55% Hispanic men, up 19 points from four years agoWhile he received the vote of 38% of Hispanic women, which is 8 points higher than in 2020, however He continued to give priority to Democratic candidate Kamala Harris

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“At first, the Republican Party didn’t take us seriously. They had preconceived ideas He minorities vote left“, he remembers. It was the 2015 Republican primaries and they were held on Facebook. “The first group I created was called Latina for Trump“I showed it to Donald and he loved it, there were beautiful girls in there,” Lombardi says, laughing. He created several more groups based on topics of non-political interest: one for bikers, another for Trump. For nurses for Trump. He soon had more than 100,000 active followers and, he says, “party bigwigs” encouraged him to join. Washington So that he could tell them how he did it. When Trump won the election, he became his advisor,

price of a dozen eggs

The truth is that pragmatic vote This appears to have been reinforced either by anti-immigration sentiment or concerns about the economy. ,What makes the Latino man tick is that he came to America to workWe migrate in search of opportunities, that’s why Encouraged by Trump’s promise to improve the economy“Julio Robledo, a Latino entrepreneur, explains to this newspaper that, although he did not vote for Trump as most Latinos did, he tries to explain why others like him chose him as president. . A dozen eggs cost between $6 and $8. In the Maryland suburb where he lives, just outside the capital, Washington DC. “It’s stuck with people. It’s Effect of inflation“, he explains. And although prices have fallen again, that memory is linked to President Biden, who is blamed for the increase in the cost of basic goods, especially food, gasoline and housing.

Robledo, 45, has already spent a third of his life in the United States. This came about under the Republican administration of George Bush Jr., and has since seen a turnaround, on which voters and analysts agree: “The Democratic Party has become a party of the elite“, he explains. Gone are the days when the Republicans were the party of Wall Street and the Democrats were the party of factories and the countryside. The roles have been exchanged: Progressivism advanced among those with higher education, who in turn As Republicans gained access to better-remunerated jobs in larger cities, under the influence of the rebound, Republicans moved toward the country’s vast center, which was more rural, more conservative, less educated, and lower income. The mistake was to think that Trumpist America was white,We Latinos are, first and foremost, working class” Robledo says.

Alpha male

Due to gender gap, the scale of the election tilted in favor of Trump. “till latin man Looks like they like the idea trump be one strong manwho speaks about himself with confidence and Don’t shy away from controversies“Walter, a Latino voter in the California, Democratic area, tells this newspaper. Walter believes there has been an increase in DutyTrump’s presidency will only cause prices to rise further. But regardless of whether Trump will be able to lower the price of gasoline, Walter signals identity voteWhich doesn’t have so much to do with whether the candidate looks like you (Trump is a rich white man), but it becomes something else. aspiration

The Promise Of climb the social ladder,

Thus, to such an extent that Trump appears to have emerged unscathed from the disgrace. Puerto Rico At his end-of-campaign rally, which a comedian described as “floating garbage island“. Your future vice president, J.D. vanesAlso attacked are Latinos who have many children and take advantage of public subsidies. ,Praising those viewpoints is really toxic But Latinos have taken Trump at his word,” Walter concluded with resignation.

While Lombardi calls those comments “unfortunate,” he apologizes to the former president, as do his voters: “I love Trump and he’s a great speaker. But around that we’re all always trying save him from himselfHe breaks down when he starts talking.