{"id":1556043,"date":"2022-07-15T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556043"},"modified":"2022-07-15T08:49:46","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T12:49:46","slug":"the-hill-reports-that-the-gop-is-stealing-hispanic-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-hill-reports-that-the-gop-is-stealing-hispanic-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Hill&#8221; Reports That the GOP Is &#8220;Stealing&#8221; Hispanic Votes"},"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%2Fthe-hill-reports-that-the-gop-is-stealing-hispanic-votes%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=1556043&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><em>Old and busted<\/em>: Republicans pounce\u00ae!\u00a0<em>New hotness<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/house\/3558283-gop-sees-chance-to-steal-hispanic-voters-from-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Republicans steal<\/a>! The Hill changed its headline \u2014 without noting the change first \u2014 but its original take on GOP success in outreach to Hispanic voters lives on in its URL, and in its tweet.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve screencapped it rather than trust that the tweet will remain up in its original version:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve heard of progressives putting ethnic demographics on an electoral plantation, but I\u2019ve never seen that embraced quite so enthusiastically before.<\/p>\n<p>Besides, how would Republicans go about \u201cstealing\u201d Hispanic voters? Er \u2026 talking with voters, becoming part of their communities, and representing their political, economic, and cultural issues, it seems. (Man, if only someone had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B011G3HC8M\/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&#038;btkr=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">written a book about that<\/a> \u2026) This actually works to convince voters to support a party, especially when the other party spends its time imposing its own vision of economics, culture, and politics rather than listen:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Republicans are actively courting Hispanic voters in key competitive House districts, hoping to peel away voters from Democrats repeating their historical pattern of investing little and late in reaching out to Latinos.<\/p>\n<p>The GOP\u2019s approach is a danger to Democrats as Hispanic voters are likely to play a key role in at least a dozen districts in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt couldn\u2019t be a starker contrast between Republicans and Democrats as we engage and do outreach to minority voters, and specifically the Hispanic community,\u201d said Danielle Alvarez, communications director for the GOP. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The centralized GOP outreach stands in contrast to a Democratic machinery that\u2019s built a broad network of grassroots organizations and a solid power base in the 36-member Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), but has struggled to inculcate an \u201cearly and often\u201d Hispanic outreach mantra in its upper echelons, like the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee or the House Majority PAC.<\/p>\n<p>The expanding GOP outreach, led by Hispanic Republicans, is eroding an image Democrats had cultivated of having a virtual monopoly on Hispanic representation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats cultivated that image because it wasn\u2019t\u00a0<em>too<\/em> far removed from reality, especially between 2004 and 2016. GOP messaging turned off Hispanic voters and their share of that demo fell from a high of 44% for George W. Bush to 29% in 2016 for Donald Trump. Hillary Clinton <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/11\/08\/us\/politics\/election-exit-polls.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">won 65% of the Hispanic vote<\/a> in that cycle, although Trump got some shifts in key districts and precincts in 2020. Democrats won 69% of Hispanics in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2018\/exit-polls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the 2018 midterms<\/a>. Joe Biden even won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2020\/exit-polls\/president\/national-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">65% of Hispanics in 2020<\/a> even with some of the marginal inroads Trump had begun to make in that demo, for that matter.<\/p>\n<p>However, that was based on Biden being a centrist dealmaker, not an incompetent progressive windbag that proceeded to immediately touch off an inflationary wave through an unnecessary stimulus bill and idiotic energy policies. Instead of tempering his party\u2019s cultural progressivism, Biden went full tilt into it with repeated references to \u201cLatinx\u201d voters. That kind of cultural imperialism hasn\u2019t worn well over time with Hispanics, especially in this economic environment, and perhaps even more especially in the Southwest during the border crisis that Biden himself touched off.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/ed-morrissey\/2022\/07\/12\/jill-biden-breakfast-tacos-and-bogedas-signs-of-hispanic-diversity-or-something-n482117\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jill Biden\u2019s \u201cbreakfast tacos\u201d comment<\/a> in itself probably doesn\u2019t matter, but it\u2019s emblematic of how Democrats talk down to Hispanics rather than bothering to engage with them:<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>If all you know about Hispanic culture and \u201cdiversity\u201d are \u201cbogedas\u201d and breakfast tacos, then you don\u2019t know much at all \u2014 and clearly, you aren\u2019t bothering to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>And Hispanics are clearly noticing. In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2022\/07\/13\/views-of-joe-biden-donald-trump-congressional-leaders\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the latest Pew poll<\/a>, for instance, Joe Biden gets a 46\/52 job approval rating from Hispanic voters after winning 65% of them less than two years ago, which is worrisome enough for Democrats. They may be more concerned by the damning-with-faint-praise 57\/42 Biden gets from black voters, who had been nearly in lockstep with Biden until this year. <em>That\u2019s<\/em> the demographic whose disappearance would spell utter catastrophe for Democrats, even more so than Hispanics, which is why Democratic cultural messaging has been entirely centered around CRT-related themes along with LGBTQ messaging on gender \u2014 hence the \u201cLatinx\u201d label, an obsession with Black Lives Matter in urban cores that excludes Hispanic concerns, and gender theory nonsense that plays very poorly in culturally conservative Hispanic communities, and so on, even apart from the economic corrosion that Biden has created.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/newsletters\/axios-future-trends-eef43908-bf13-481b-a11b-868f6c01761f.html?chunk=0&#038;utm_campaign=axios_app#story0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Kraushaar<\/a> saw the same trend in <a href=\"https:\/\/int.nyt.com\/data\/documenttools\/us0722-crosstabs-nyt071322\/a775fbafdcf9db9d\/full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the recent NYT\/Siena poll<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s happening:\u00a0<\/strong>House Republicans\u00a0<a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/04\/us\/politics\/gop-diversity-texas-arizona.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"boast\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/06\/04\/us\/politics\/gop-diversity-texas-arizona.html\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">boast<\/a>\u00a0this year\u2019s class of new candidates is the most diverse in history.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>The\u00a0<a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/nrcc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"NRCC\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/nrcc.org\/\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">NRCC<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0notes that 29 of its 75 House targets have a Hispanic population over 15%.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>In the\u00a0<a class=\"gtmContentClick\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/13\/upshot\/poll-2022-midterms-congress.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-vars-link-text=\"Times\/Siena poll\" data-vars-click-url=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/07\/13\/upshot\/poll-2022-midterms-congress.html\" data-vars-item=\"in_content_link\">Times\/Siena poll<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>Ds hold a 20-point advantage over Rs among white college-educated voters \u2014 but are statistically tied among Hispanics.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Hispanic voters\u00a0<\/strong>backed Democrats by a nearly 50-point margin in the 2018 midterms. In the 2016 congressional elections, Dems\u00a0<em>lost<\/em>\u00a0white voters with a bachelor\u2019s degree.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republicans aren\u2019t \u201cstealing\u201d Hispanic voters. They\u2019re engaging with them because Democrats have made it clear that they aren\u2019t a priority. \u00a0That doesn\u2019t even qualify as pouncing on the part of the GOP, but rather a good sign of competent politicking. <em>Finally<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Old and busted: Republicans pounce\u00ae!\u00a0New hotness: Republicans steal! The Hill changed its headline \u2014 without noting the change first \u2014 but its original take on GOP success in outreach to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1573822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556043","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\/1556043","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}