They NEVER were going anyplace else…
Minorities do NOT lean Republican , who have little in common or support of their point of ‘Rights’, view’s or politics …..
In Texas, for example, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Beto O’Rourke, who lost his election, won the 93 percent Hispanic Hidalgo County with a 60-40 split, roughly the numbers Hispanic advocates expected to see there.
Throughout the country, but particularly in the West, Hispanic voters largely put down narratives of a rightward shift, with Democratic candidates in Hispanic districts largely doing well.
“We’ve seen all these articles, all these narratives, I mean, the post-mortems were written before [Tuesday],” said Victoria McGroary,the executive director of Bold PAC, the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) campaign arm.
“Like ‘the rise of the Latina conservative,’ right, all of this? And yeah, over at Bold PAC and Latino groups on the ground, all of us who have been doing this work, invested in their communities for so long, have been like, ‘no, no, no, we gotta run through the tape,’” she added.
In large part, the lack of a rightward shift followed a national trend of rejecting candidates seen as too extreme.
“That’s because Latinos rejected MAGA, period. MAGA is toxic to Latinos,” said Kristian Ramos, a Democratic political operative, referring to former President Trump’s slogan, Make America Great Again….
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Still, stories of a reddening of the Hispanic electorate were everywhere this election cycle, worrying some Democrats that the narrative would morph into a self-fulfilling prophecy.
“I think Latino Democrats don’t listen to pundits. And I think that’s the reason why they just came out and voted in their own self-interest,” said Bold PAC Chair Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.).