Leopards and faces. Leopards and faces. Navy beans. Navy beans. Deportations.
Harris won 56% of the Latino vote to Trumps 42%, but that was 14% more than previously.
Latinos who earned less than $50K voted 54% for Trump, as did those who make over $100K.
Trump also received over 50% of the male Latino vote.
Not most, but huge chunks voted for someone who said he’d target them, thinking they were “the good ones.” Completely forgetting his first term.
Fair enough. That is a larger portion than I had realised. During the campaign I def thought that any Trump voter who wasn’t a wealthy white male was voting against their interests.
Trump’s not even good for wealthy white males, the demographic he best serves is poor white males who might reasonably get by on privilege if everyone else is fucked over enough
Realistically any “bring back manufacturing” plan can work it just takes a long time, even longer when you start making the world very economically uncertain.
But lets say John Deere decides to move some foreign component manufacture back to the us and builds a factory to do it in record time. They will not be building in downtown Manhattan, they will build in Deerdick Alabama because the land costs nothing and the local unskilled labor isnt spoiled for options so are unlikely to stand up to management or quit. If you can repeat that 100 times across the country in these poorer rural red states thats going to benefit his core greatly.
I would imagine a metric shit-ton of money got poured into the Latinos for Trump movement. It was very effective.
They certainly did in Florida, where the democrats pretty much completely pulled funding, thinking it was a lost cause.
As I understand it, that’s in large part because of the Cuban expat community, who are mainly a single issue demographic focused on “fuck the Castros”.
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