{"id":1450088,"date":"2022-04-22T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450088"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T16:16:14","slug":"dem-rep-blasts-party-for-treating-latinos-like-white-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dem-rep-blasts-party-for-treating-latinos-like-white-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem Rep Blasts Party For Treating Latinos Like \u2018White Liberals\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdem-rep-blasts-party-for-treating-latinos-like-white-liberals%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1450088&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona criticized colleagues in his party for treating Latinos the same way they do \u201cwhite liberals\u201d in a podcast appearance Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t really talk about the American dream to Latinos; we talk to them like we talk to white liberals. But they\u2019re not white liberals!\u201d Gallego <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/newsletters\/playbook\/2022\/04\/22\/is-kevin-mccarthy-toast-00027137?nname=playbook&#038;nid=0000014f-1646-d88f-a1cf-5f46b7bd0000&#038;nrid=0b34fe84-ed71-4a96-9b4b-77a80cb8363b&#038;nlid=630318\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> on Politico\u2019s \u201cPlaybook Deep Dive\u201d podcast. \u201cLatinos want to be rich, they want to be successful, they want to be secure, they want to have jobs, they want all these things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA bunch of fucking big, big donors [who] are all white liberals end up hiring liberal consultants, [who] end up hiring other very liberal Latino consultants. And they all have this massive fucking feedback loop,\u201d he added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/24\/latinos-sabato-crystal-ball-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Are Latinos Really Abandoning Dems? Poll Analysis Gives New Insight)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans have been courting Latinos after President Joe Biden significantly underperformed with the demographic in the 2020 presidential election. The Republican National Committee has established <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/30\/special-election-texas-gop-hispanic-voters-mayra-flores\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Hispanic Community Centers<\/a> in an effort to win over more voters, and the party has seen an <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/21\/republicans-record-hispanics-new-mexico\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">increase<\/a> in Hispanic <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/06\/gop-hispanic-female-candidates-texas-midterms\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">candidates<\/a> for the midterms in border states like Texas and New Mexico.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7415594\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7415594\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) questions Gregory Monahan, Acting Chief of the U.S. Park Police (on monitor) as he testifies about the June 1 confrontation with protesters at Lafayette Square near the White House during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on July 28, 2020 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Leah Millis-Pool\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Gallego, a first-generation American born to a Colombian mother and Mexican father, has previously spoken out about the Democratic Party\u2019s disconnect with the Latino community. He said in December his office is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/not-allowed-use-top-democrat-responds-latinx-poll-slams-term-ruben-galledo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not allowed<\/a> to use the term \u201cLatinx\u201d in official communications, arguing the term is only used to \u201cappease white rich progressives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will not lose you an election but if your staff and consultants use Latinx in your mass communication it likely means they don\u2019t understand the Latino community and is indicative of deeper problems,\u201d Gallego <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RubenGallego\/status\/1467939474575437831\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Gallego has openly flirted with <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/03\/chuck-schumer-joe-manchin-kyrsten-sinema-2024-primary-challenger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">potentially challenging<\/a> Democratic Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema for her seat in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s not going to be out here stumping for Democrats. She\u2019s all about herself,\u201d Gallego said on the podcast Friday. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t care about the Democratic movement. She doesn\u2019t care about working-class people. \u2026 I think she cares more about her career than she cares about, like, what we can do with our elected office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego of Arizona criticized colleagues in his party for treating Latinos the same way they do \u201cwhite liberals\u201d in a podcast appearance Friday.\u201cWe don\u2019t really talk about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":1450159,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1450088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1450088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1450088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1450088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1450088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1450088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}