Fort Lauderdale, Florida (AP) – The Democrats have long concentrated on immigration when they have stated Latino voters in states such as Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey and Florida, where the generations have determined Mexican, Cuban and other Latin American immigrants and gained permanently statutory status.
But Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 presidential election and the shift of the Latino voters have some liberals that rethink time-honored wisdom.
“People take care of it, but they don’t vote about it. They vote on the economy,” said Patricia Campos-Medina, a work activist who lasted for the US Senate in New Jersey last year and is now advising the US representative Mikie Sherrill, one of the Democrats that run for the governor next month.
Liberal strategists, organizers and some politicians ask the Democrats to concentrate on the economy in this year’s elections, and not on immigration. Some argue that a broad economic message with the wide range of nationalities and experiences in the Latino community would be more effective than on tailor -made efforts based on perceived cultural or political interests.
Last year Trump, a Republican, made a sturdy Puertorican areas in the east of Pennsylvania and turned the Rio Grande Valley in South Texas, while he improved his numbers along Florida’s Interstate 4 corridor. His message at Latinos focused heavily on the economy and border security.
“Latino employees said:” Not treating us as monolith, “said Tory Gavito, who was won by Way to the Gewann, a progressive group that was founded after Trump’s 2016 victory that recently led focus groups with Latinos who skipped the 2024 elections.” They were quite monolithic. “
Economic concerns have exceeded everything else
According to AP VoiceCast, the inflation was almost half of the Latinos who voted last autumn last autumn, a far-reaching survey of the 2024 electorate. About three quarters of the Latino Trump voters were very concerned about the housing costs in their community, compared to around 6 out of 10 White Trump voters.
“Where we were too short, it did not appreciate the economic bread and butter economic problems that they answered,” said Tom Perez, a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, who worked as President Joe Biden. “Many people had the feeling that we concentrated too much on identity policy and not enough to focus on the costs of eggs, the gas costs, the cost of living.”
Alex Berrios, co-founder of the Mi Vecino organization group, which mobilizes the Latino voters in Florida, Arizona and Maine, said that the Democrats focused too much on the exploit of keywords and the attempt to make specific nationalities to micro-target. The result, he argues, gave the voters the feeling that the party’s message was staged.
“It is like saying:” Let me get my Venezuelan script out, “said Berrios.” No. The first thing that can only be assigned. “
Chuck Rocha is a democratic strategist, the Latinos for US Senator Bernie Sanders’ presidential offer in 2020 and last year for US Senator Ruben Gallego mobilized a great political action committee or PAC to reach Latinos in key races. He argued that the Democrats “messed up by bringing a political book into a boxing match”.
“It’s about three things: affordability, affordability, affordability,” he said. “Tavational is the only thing that is important to you because that is what she hits her face every day.”
New Jersey becomes an early test
New Jersey’s area code for the governor is an early test of the various democratic points of view. Last year Trump thrown two Hispanic majority cities, which he had lost in 2016 by more than 30 and 50 percentage points. The democrat Kamala Harris won a traditionally blue state with only 6 percentage points, the closest presidential competition since 2004.
Sherrill, who won a long -time Republican district in 2018 at the winning of her house seat, concentrated on her biography and military service and at the same time argued that she would assert Trump and billionaire consultant Elon Musk. One of your ads promises that “she will reduce the costs from health care to living space”.
Her campaign manager Alex Ball, who was outlined in a memo at the weekend, that one of his goals are the Hispanic voters from two suburban districts who voted in three of the four earlier democratic primaries.
“There is a real risk that a Republican win will win in November, but Mikie is the candidate who can win the same way as she has won, and even a long-time Republican incumbent in a Trump distribution etwas that nobody thought possible,” Ball wrote.
In the meantime, the mayor of Newark, Ras Baraka, has often used the plans of the US immigration authorities to open a prison in his city. The mayor was arrested by immigration authorities on Friday, while demonstrating outside, the video of his detention and publication widespread and led to his competitors in the democratic primary intricate on his side.
Democrats see an opening
An AP-NORC survey in May showed that 38% of Hispanic Adult Trump’s handling of dealing with the economy, which corresponds approximately to the US-growing overall.
However, there are increasingly uncomfortable, since Trump’s plans to revive production and re -forming the global economy have been introduced with constant changes, which creates uncertainty and the concerns about increasing prices and products disappear from the shelves. From January to March, the economy shrank for the first time in three years when the companies were disrupted by Trump’s trade wars. Trump released thousands of federal workers who have an impact outside of Washington.
The Libre initiative, a conservative group connected by Koch Network, carries out advertisements for Latinos to support the tax benefits that were approved during Trump’s first term that could possibly expire at the end of the year.
Daniel Garza, President of the group, recognized “nervousness” among Latino voters, and some wondered whether Trump may have been accepted too much and too quickly. But Garza said it was too early to make a fair assessment of his second term that began in January.
He argues that the voters should wait and see how Trump negotiates trade and whether the Republican party can say goodbye to its “large, beautiful bill” with tax breaks and spending cuts and promises that he made, such as
“My feeling is that Latinos are a very patient amount,” he said. “Aguantamus Mucho.”
This is Spanish for “We did it with a lot.”
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Amelia Thomson-Deveaux in Washington in Washington contributed to this report.
