![]() Hispanic support for Republicans has risen in places like New Mexico and New York, said Palomarez, who noted that such trends could continue - especially since word-of-mouth is crucial to influencing Hispanic voting - unless Democrats change the way they work to mobilize Hispanic voters. ![]() “Are they behind?” asked Javier Palomarez CEO of the United States Hispanic Business Council. And that makes engaging in effective Hispanic outreach critical, activists say. Yet even modest swings toward Republicans could mean millions more 2024 GOP votes since Hispanics made up 62% of total growth in the nation's eligible voters between 2018 and last year's election, according to Pew. Many Democrats also believed harsh rhetoric from Republicans before, during and after the presidency of Trump - who famously used his campaign launch in 2015 to declare immigrants from Mexico to be rapists and criminals - would work in their favor. born, and they came from a wider array of backgrounds. A growing share were English-speaking and U.S. “A lot of the issues that Hispanics care about are issues that are being touted by the Republican Party.”ĭemocrats say they maintain the upper hand on policy, but party leaders had expected another boost in electoral support from recent demographic shifts in the Hispanic population. “They’ve created a tremendous opportunity for Republicans,” Suarez said. Miami Mayor Francis Suarez, a Republican considering a White House run, said Democrats have failed to connect with Hispanic voters and hurt themselves by adopting terms like Latinx, a gender-neutral alternative to "Latino" and "Latina." Meanwhile, 39% of Hispanic voters backed Republicans last year, a tick up from the 35% who supported former President Donald Trump’s reelection bid. But recent signs that Republicans have made inroads with those voters are adding to the sense that Democrats have work to do to maintain their advantage.ĭemocratic candidates won 57% of Hispanic voters during last year’s midterms, a smaller percentage than the 63% of Hispanic voters Biden won in 2020 and the 66% of Hispanic voters supporting the party in 2018, when Democrats took control of the House, according to AP VoteCast, a sweeping survey of the national electorate. ![]() ![]() Hispanic voters, long a core constituency for Democrats, have reliably supported them based on substantive matters of policy, from health care to managing the economy, according to Pew Research Center surveys. ![]() “It’s not an insignificant portion of what campaigns are going to have to wrestle with in the ’24 cycle.” “The details actually matter for people because it’s respecting their background, respecting their history, respecting their culture,” said Grecia Lima, national political director of Community Change Action. It was meant as a salute to the singer of the reggaeton hit, Luis Fonsi, who had introduced Biden and cried, “Dance a little bit, Joe." Still, the gesture triggered swift online backlash from some Hispanics, who saw it as playing to belittling stereotypes - proof that while outreach is important, failing to strike the right cultural tone can undermine such efforts. But as he stepped to the podium at a Hispanic Heritage Month event near Disney World, Biden declared, "I just have one thing to say" and used his phone to play part of "Despacito." (AP) - Joe Biden vowed in 2020 to work "like the devil" to energize Hispanic voters, and flew to Florida seven weeks before Election Day to do just that. ![]()
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