{"id":1658475,"date":"2022-09-26T12:25:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1658475"},"modified":"2022-09-26T12:26:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:26:06","slug":"beto-orourke-blames-biden-for-latino-voters-rightward-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/beto-orourke-blames-biden-for-latino-voters-rightward-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"Beto O\u2019Rourke Blames Biden for Latino Voters\u2019 Rightward Shift"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fbeto-orourke-blames-biden-for-latino-voters-rightward-shift%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=1658475&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>Beto O\u2019Rourke has blamed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s actions during the 2020 election as playing a part in Latino voters\u2019 rightward political shift in recent years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCandidate Biden didn\u2019t spend a dime or a day in the Rio Grande Valley\u2014or really anywhere in Texas, for that matter\u2014once we got down in the homestretch of the general election,\u201d O\u2019Rourke <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k1JjIp_qdCk&amp;feature=emb_logo\">said<\/a>\u00a0at the Texas Tribune Festival on Sept. 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou got to be locking eyeballs with the people that you want to fight for and serve and whose votes that you want to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/black-hispanic-voters-on-why-they-voted-for-trump_3600371.html\">rightward shift of Hispanic and Latino voters<\/a>\u00a0made headlines in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Trump saw more support from Latino voters in 2020 than in 2016. According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewresearch.org\/politics\/2021\/06\/30\/behind-bidens-2020-victory\/\">Pew Research<\/a>, Trump moved from 28 percent to 38 percent approval among <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hispanic\">Hispanic<\/a> voters, a gain of 10 percent.\u00a0Biden, meanwhile, earned 59 percent of the Hispanic voters, down from 62 percent Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton received in her 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p>In South Texas, a historically Democratic stronghold, Hispanic votes shifted significantly. For example, Zapata County, where Clinton won by 33 percentage points in 2016, flipped to Trump in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRepublicans showed up with a very strong, compelling economic message,\u201d O\u2019Rourke said Saturday when asked why the Hispanic voters in Texas shifted to GOP candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom Trump, it was literally one syllable, one word,\u201d O\u2019Rourke continued. \u201cIt was \u2018jobs,\u2019 and he kind of offered a false choice: \u2018I can either keep you holed up in your house during this pandemic, or I can open up all places of employment and prioritize the economy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat did we have on our side? Nothing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The momentum Republicans gained among Hispanics appears to be sustained in Texas so far. In a June special election, conservative Republican Mayra Flores <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/mkt_app\/republican-mayra-flores-flips-texas-u-s-house-seat-in-special-election_4528840.html\">defeated<\/a> Democrat Dan Sanchez by roughly eight percentage points. Flores<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beto O\u2019Rourke has blamed Joe Biden\u2019s actions during the 2020 election as playing a part in Latino voters\u2019 rightward political shift in recent years. \u201cCandidate Biden didn\u2019t spend a dime or a day in the Rio Grande Valley\u2014or really anywhere in Texas, for that matter\u2014once we got down in the homestretch of the general election,\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":342,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1658475","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\/1658475","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\/342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1658475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1658475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1658475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1658475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1658475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}