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submitted 2 weeks ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Summary

Latino voters shifted significantly toward Donald Trump in 2024, driven largely by concerns over inflation, jobs, and immigration.

Trump garnered 45% of the Hispanic vote, a 13-point increase from 2020 and the highest for a Republican since 2004.

His economic message resonated, especially among Latino men, with many seeing him as a businessman focused on financial priorities over social issues. Immigration concerns also played a role, with some Latinos supporting Trump’s tougher stance on border control.

However, Latinas largely favored Kamala Harris, prioritizing issues like women’s rights.

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[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 103 points 2 weeks ago

So they voted for the guy who's stated goals of adding high tariffs to all imports and doing mass deportations of workers necessary to the agriculture industry will fuck the economy royally. Yeah, that makes sense.

[-] Steve@communick.news 54 points 2 weeks ago

It took me a long time to figure this out.
Trump lies with every breath. Even his supporters don't believe the literal truth of his words. They instead replace the literal meaning of his words, with the more broad idea that he's talking about the thing they like, in a way other politicians don't. That nebulous ephemeral feeling is what they are voting for.

Of course they can't understand that, let alone express it coherently. Which is why all their reasons are such incoherent straw-grasping.

[-] catloaf@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago
[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 weeks ago

To be fair, he said he would fix the elections not remove them. Lots of nice places like Russia and Belarus have elections without all anxiety of not knowing the results beforehand /s

[-] Zahille7@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I was trying to find the clip where the q-nut finds ex-president Garrison in the grocery store and tells him he knows what he's really saying, but Garrison just calls him a crazy son of a bitch; but I couldn't find it.

This one is clear enough though.

[-] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 24 points 2 weeks ago

Makes no sense at all. Every time a GOPer is in power it has adverse effects on the economy. Every damn time!

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago

Right? Democratic administrations have done better in almost every case for the last 75 years!

For well over a decade economists and other social scientists have documented a strong advantage in economic performance during Democratic administrations. A new Economic Policy Institute report updates this work to the latest data available and confirms that this Democratic advantage persists. Positive indicators like growth in gross domestic product (GDP), income, and wages are faster, while negative indicators like unemployment, inflation, and interest rates are lower. Further, the fruits of economic growth are distributed substantially more equally under Democratic presidents.

[-] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

The only reason they haven't done even better than that is 80% of their time in office is busy fixing the last Republican fuckup before the public gets a chance to go and elect more Republicans again

[-] toomanypancakes@lemmy.world 64 points 2 weeks ago

Every single person who voted for trump because of the economy is an idiot and a monster. Across the board.

[-] Steve@communick.news 16 points 2 weeks ago

If they're an idiot who doesn't know, they aren't a monster, but a victim of a con.
It's the people who DO know because they aren't idiot's, that are the monsters.

It might seem pedantic. But it really is an important distinction.

[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 9 points 2 weeks ago

Agreed. Everyone who voted for Trump is either an idiot or a monster. I think most of them fall into the former category. Every Trump voter I've talked to who has said they "did their own research" to inform their vote has pointed to information they got from fringe sites and outlets they were initially linked to via social media. Not one mentioned looking at Trump's campaign website, the Wikipedia article on him, much less any of the critical articles about him in legitimate news sites. These are ignorant people with no critical thinking skills.

[-] reddig33@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

It is your responsibility to be an informed voter. Stop infantilizing adults who should know better.

[-] Steve@communick.news 2 points 2 weeks ago

There's no one con that'll get everyone.
But everyone can be gotten by at least one con.

[-] turbowafflz@lemmy.world 51 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

"Surely the leopards won't eat my face"

- These guys probably

They're voting for Trump because they've vaguely heard he's a good businessman (From who? Who possibly could be the source of this reputation?). It's just voting based on the general feeling of hearing the words "good businessman" and "better for the economy" alongside Trump.

The logic is more like, "I like leopards, I like to eat, and I like my face. I know who I'm voting for."

[-] Artyom@lemm.ee 6 points 2 weeks ago

I actually laughed when I read the headline for this reason.

[-] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 28 points 2 weeks ago

Well, Trump is going to solve that problem for them when he puts them in the camps.

Horrible.

[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

They legitimately want Trump to deport the other illegals, not their illegals.

Artemio Muniz, chairman of the Federation of Hispanic Republicans, said he was pleased with the election outcome, but his elation was tempered because “the reality is there’s work to do."

"Now my focus is to the immigration side. Now we have a real battle on our hands, not with Trump," Muniz said, but "we have to make sure ... hard-working Mexican immigrants do not get deported."

Fucking incredible.

[-] ArtVandelay@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago

I just really have no words or thoughts for how one brain can possess both of these thoughts simultaneously

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 21 points 2 weeks ago

Well good for those Latino American... because they are no longer part of Americans economy.

[-] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 2 weeks ago

Can we keep the Latinas?

[-] Tedesche@lemmy.world 16 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I have a Mexican coworker who voted for Trump over a single issue: he believes Trump pulled the FBI and CIA out of Mexico, which stopped them selling guns to the cartels.

Not only is this not true, it shows that he's voting for Trump solely for the benefit of Mexico. Honestly, to my mind, that's not a bad reason to deport someone (which—as a citizen—he can't be, I know).

[-] droporain@lemmynsfw.com 15 points 2 weeks ago

Leave the place you were born for a better life. Then proceed to vote for the same policies, regulations, and laws that made it a shithole.

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 3 points 2 weeks ago

Fine, now I’ll only call them Latinx from now on (going to pronounce it latinks)

[-] ninjabard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Todos los traidores

[-] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 weeks ago

Well thankfully trump WILL SOLVE that because they will have a new top issue...

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