{"id":558780,"date":"2021-06-09T21:06:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=558780"},"modified":"2021-06-09T21:06:24","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T01:06:24","slug":"they-dont-buy-into-that-at-all-are-far-left-policies-behind-hispanic-voters-rightward-shift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/they-dont-buy-into-that-at-all-are-far-left-policies-behind-hispanic-voters-rightward-shift\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They Don\u2019t Buy Into That At All\u2019: Are Far-Left Policies Behind Hispanic 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\">30<\/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%2Fthey-dont-buy-into-that-at-all-are-far-left-policies-behind-hispanic-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=558780&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--><ul>\n<li><strong>Hispanic Americans have been voting Republican at record high rates, helping the GOP make inroads in traditionally Democratic areas, and in some cases, flip long-held Democratic seats.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The leftward shift in Democrats\u2019 rhetoric \u2014 and Republicans\u2019 ability to attack them on it \u2014 was a huge driver behind the GOP\u2019s ability to increase its Hispanic support in 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Dr. Julio Gonzalez, a former Republican member of Florida\u2019s House of Representatives, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that while Hispanics were still receptive to traditional liberal policies like social safety nets, a growing distaste for far-left policies has driven them rightward.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>\u201cDemocratic policies have resonated in the past,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cWhat has changed is that the discussions that are being had from the left have shifted so much more\u2026 left.\u201d<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hispanic Americans have been voting Republican at record high rates, helping the GOP make inroads in traditionally Democratic areas, and in some cases, flip long-held Democratic seats.<\/p>\n<p>Most apparent were the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/04\/house-democrats-disaster-election-night\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gains<\/a> that Republicans made in the 2020 presidential election, sizably increasing their vote share in states with large and small Hispanic populations alike and winning several competitive congressional races as a result. This past weekend Republicans <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/07\/republicans-win-texas-mayoral-races-latino-support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">swept Texas\u2019 mayoral races<\/a>, winning in both large cities like Fort Worth and smaller cities like McAllen, a border town in the heavily-Democratic Rio Grande Valley.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Julio Gonzalez, an orthopedic surgeon and a former Republican member of Florida\u2019s House of Representatives, told the Daily Caller News Foundation that while Hispanics were still receptive to traditional liberal policies like social safety nets, a growing distaste for far-left policies has driven them rightward nonetheless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThose things that people on the right in the United States may find concerning, [Hispanics] may be a lot more comfortable with, and that\u2019s probably why, in my view, Democratic policies have resonated in the past,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cWhat has changed is that the discussions that are being had from the left have shifted so much more\u2026 left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats\u2019 rhetoric, unsurprisingly, is not the only factor driving Hispanics toward Republicans. Many who voted for former President Donald Trump pointed to his anti-tax, anti-regulation economic policies, and said that they saw the party as a model for independent, economic prosperity, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/03\/05\/us\/politics\/latino-voters-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according<\/a> to The New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>But the leftward shift in Democrats\u2019 rhetoric \u2014 and Republicans\u2019 ability to attack them on it even as they did their own outreach and grassroots campaigning to woo Hispanic voters in swing states \u2014 was a huge driver behind the GOP\u2019s increased Hispanic support last November.<\/p>\n<p>In the weeks before last November\u2019s election Republicans constantly accused Democrats of trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/08\/ted-cruz-georgia-senate-socialist-abyss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">transform<\/a> the U.S. into a socialist country, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/07\/17\/vp-mike-pence-ripon-wisconsin-you-wont-be-safe-joe-biden-wins-2020-republican-birthplace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hammering<\/a> them over far-left positions like \u201cdefund the police,\u201d open borders and more. The result was a Democratic implosion among Hispanic voters nationwide, but especially in areas where many had fled from actual socialist countries like Cuba and <a href=\"https:\/\/live.worldbank.org\/beyond-borders-venezuelan-exodus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Venezuela<\/a> and in areas along the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2020\/exit-polls\/president\/national-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2020<\/a>, Trump won 36% of Latino men and 30% of Latino women, up from 32% and 25% in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2016\/results\/exit-polls\/texas\/president\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">2016<\/a>, exit polls show. But in Arizona, Texas and Florida,\u00a0Trump\u2019s vote share among Latinos increased by 6%, 7% and 11%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>In metro Miami, home to the largest Cuban population in the U.S., Trump increased his overall vote share by 7%, leading to a victory in the state that was nearly four points larger in 2020 than in 2016. In Texas\u2019 Rio Grande Valley, voters in some areas shifted more Republican than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/11\/05\/us\/texas-election-results.html\">anywhere else<\/a> in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The shifts led Republicans to flip two south Florida House seats and hold a Texas seat along the southern border that was expected to turn Democratic, helping the party gain seats when forecasters had <a href=\"https:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/our-forecast-thinks-democrats-will-keep-the-house-and-maybe-even-gain-seats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">predicted<\/a> them to slip further into the minority.<\/p>\n<p>While Hispanic voters largely still supported traditional Democratic priorities like social security and a broader government safety net, Gonzalez said that most were deeply religious and socially conservative, widening the rift between the two even more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think [Hispanics] generally are very religious, I think they\u2019re very family-centric,\u201d Gonzalez said. \u201cI think that they believe that transgender folks competing in women\u2019s sports is nonsensical, for example. I think these things are taking a stronger hold of the Democrat agenda, and I think that\u2019s turning them off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s so much that the Hispanics are changing, I think it\u2019s that the message from the left is becoming sharper and more radical, and I don\u2019t think they buy into that at all,\u201d Gonzalez added.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/20\/socialism-medicare-for-all-florida-latinos-vote-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: Fear Of Socialism Drove Florida Latinos To Vote Republican, Former State Rep Says)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7210235\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" readability=\"35\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7210235\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7210235 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1307600085-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, Republican of Florida, was one of two Hispanic Republicans to flip a House seat in Miami-Dade County in 2020. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1307600085-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1307600085-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1307600085-620x413-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1307600085-768x512-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1307600085-1536x1024-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/GettyImages-1307600085-2048x1365-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7210235\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar, Republican of Florida, was one of two Hispanic Republicans to flip a House seat in Miami-Dade County in 2020. (Chip Somodevilla\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Following the election, some Democrats <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/04\/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democrat-latino-voters\/\">acknowledged<\/a> their losses among Hispanic voters and said that the party needed to change its message.<\/p>\n<p>California Democratic Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/24\/california-democrat-partys-message-change-overnight\/\">Tony C\u00e1rdenas<\/a> said that his party must become \u201cculturally competent,\u201d and pointed to the need for politicians and organizations to better communicate and resonate with Hispanic voters and the struggles they are facing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would like to see the DCCC change overnight, literally, to make sure that we have culturally competent, diverse staff, diverse vendors, diverse campaign consultants, diverse candidates all across the board,\u201d C\u00e1rdenas\u00a0said.<\/p>\n<p>Former Rep. Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, who lost her Miami House seat last November, chided her party for overlooking Hispanic voters, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DebbieforFL\/status\/1329091118319865858\">writing<\/a> on Twitter that \u201cwhen others try to treat Latino\u2019s as a monolithic group, they miss the nuances\u201d and opportunities to connect with them.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan Democratic Rep. Elissa Slotkin, a moderate who barely held her district after flipping it in 2018, called her party\u2019s national brand \u201cmushy\u201d after the election, adding that \u201cpeople don\u2019t know what we stand for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While Republicans have capitalized on Democrats\u2019 recent struggles with Hispanic voters and with far-left rhetoric that has become more prominent within the party, Gonzalez insisted that conservative outreach was imperative for GOP gains to truly cement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cConservatives do need to really go out and talk to [Hispanics], not about immigration or the radical left,\u201d he said. \u201cWhat we need, as Hispanics, is an explanation as to why America works, and why the worst thing that we can do is follow in the direction of a more socialistic government.<\/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>Hispanic Americans have been voting Republican at record high rates, helping the GOP make inroads in traditionally Democratic areas, and in some cases, flip long-held Democratic seats. 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