Washington (AP) – Donald Trump kept his first speech as a ReiniguralTed President and spoke directly to communities that had historically avoided his party.
“For the black and Hispanic communities, I would like to thank you for the enormous expression of love and trust that you showed me with your voice,” said Trump. “We set data records and I will not forget you. I heard their voices in the campaign and look forward to working with them in the coming years. “
Trump, whose inauguration coincided with Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday, promised to “strive together, to make his dream reality”. It is a vow that is skeptical of many prominent black and Hispanic civil rights leaders. But among the conservatives of the color that surround Trump, the moment was a confirmation of her greatest hopes, years in manufacturing.
“This room was impossible twenty years ago,” said Rep. Byron Donalds, R-Fla. “But in 2024 we are not only back, we also bring black people and Hispanic people to the Republican party,” said Donalds of the crowd.
Trump’s comments alluded to the record margins that he had won compared to former Republican presidential candidates among mighty black and Hispanic regions of the country. In Galas before Trump’s inauguration, conservative blacks and Hispanic activists and legislators came to a up-to-date era in which many of them hope to play a greater role than in Trump’s first term.
“There is so much what we expect from the president and I think he will deliver,” said Virginia Lt. Governor Winsome Earle-Sears, a pronounced conservative who becomes the state’s first black and female governor.
Earle-Sears listed stricter immigration policy that impair crimes and reduce the role of the federal government in education as priorities that they believed that they would speak to black Americans. “Just give us a chance,” she said.
Celebration came from the Trump campaign after a year, which invested in Appeals in Black and Hispanic voters, while at the same time they represent immigrants and color communities as violent criminals and the country, such as diversity and inclusion policy, which consider the preserved as weakening of the nation .
But Trump’s split messages about “black jobs” and “Hispanic Jobs” spoke to a view of the economy and society, which in some voters, including color voters, spoke in addition to the concerns regarding inflation, speedy technological change and geopolitical unrest in Abroad found importance.
Trump won a larger proportion of black and Latin American voters than in 2020 when he lost a nationwide survey of more than 120,000 voters – especially among the teenage black and Hispanic male voters – especially among the teenage black and Hispanic male voters.
A total of around 16% of black voters Trump supported Trump in November, while about 8 out of 10 voted for the Democrats Kamala Harris. However, this was a shift of 2020 when only 8% of the black voters supported Trump and about 9 out of 10 went for bidges. Among the Hispanic voters, 43% voted for Trump in November, compared to about a third in 2020.
Black women are mostly the exception to this shift – around 9 out of 10 black female voters supported Harris in 2024, similar to the proportion that supported bidges in 2020.
On Saturday before Trump’s inauguration, GOP members of the congress, the legislators and governors with conservative activists and managing directors from the entire western hemisphere mixed.
Latin American leaders such as Argentine President Javier Milei and the Paraguayan President Santiago Peña grated elbows with Republican congress members, including Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, Mexican actor and Hispanic Managing Director. Vivek Ramaswamy, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Greg Abbott from Texas appeared.
“I do not think that Trump gets enough recognition to listen to and adapt his guidelines partly to what people want in these communities.” said Francis Suarez, Mayor of Miami. Suarez, who leads a city that is overwhelming Hispanian and is in the context of the United States and the Latin America, said that Trump could maintain his support among the Hispanic voters and expand it again. It simply goes back to the basics. “
The Senator of Texas, Ted Cruz, gathered the gala participants with the elections in November, in which many majority districts had traditionally turned back in his home state, which the Democrats had traditionally shot too Trump. Cruz, who preferred Trump in many of the same counties in the back elections, described the GOP instruments with Hispanic voters as “unprecedented”.
“The Rio Grande Valley has been light blue for 100 years. Well, I am here to tell you that the Rio Grande Valley turned red red, ”said Cruz, who is Hispan. “This is a generation change for Texas and a generation change for America.”
Other legislators took time to record a future -oriented vision.
“I think the greatest thing is that we start realizing that we are Americans first. We have different backgrounds, but always share the same dreams. And that’s what happens all the line, ”said Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, in an interview with the Associated Press. Owens is one of four black Republicans in the House of Representatives.
Senator Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, who was born in Bogotá, Colombia, rejected stereotypes from Hispanics as exclusively workers or immigrants and asked the amount to imagine the country after the four years of the trump term.
“In four years, America will understand the positive effects of the Hispanic Community. And we will build an alliance between a free South America, a prospering South America and a strong, free and wealthy United States,” said Moreno.
“We will do this in the next four years and it will be the Hispanic community that will make it happen.”
Black conservatives are also supplied with energy. The GOP has not added any up-to-date black members to the congress in this cycle, but activists hope to change this in the 2026 midterms. And Donalds, a Republican in Florida and one of the most eminent black replacement for Trump on the campaign street, joked the participants to stay over his ambition for higher office – the speakers described as “Governor Donalds” during the night.
The commission scenes and efforts were no coincidence.
Conservative groups such as Bienvenido and the Black Conservative Federation, which organized the balls, had worked behind the scenes for years to build conservative black and Hispanic organizational networks. And Trump’s orbit promoted amiable relationships with Latin America’s political law, especially in Trump’s friendship with the then Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro’s wife visited Trump’s inauguration.
Argentina’s Milei “And I were friends before he was elected president,” said Roger Stone, a long -time Trump confidant. We were, you know on the Internet. I strongly believe in him. ”
Some in Trump’s orbit Hope State Secretary Marco Rubio will deepen America’s connections to the right-wing Latin American leaders in the coming years.
The exuberance of the night reflected a wish in many Hispanic conservatives to consolidate the introduction of the party with Hispanic voters and to boost their immersion in the GOP.
“We are growing exponentially,” said Jaime Florez, the director of Hispanic Communication Director for the Trump campaign.
And who knows? “The first Hispanic President of the United States could be here tonight,” he added.
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