{"id":704606,"date":"2021-08-31T21:20:17","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=704606"},"modified":"2021-08-31T21:20:25","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T01:20:25","slug":"california-democrats-fear-working-class-latinos-will-be-gavin-newsoms-achilles-heel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/california-democrats-fear-working-class-latinos-will-be-gavin-newsoms-achilles-heel\/","title":{"rendered":"California Democrats Fear Working-Class Latinos Will Be Gavin Newsom\u2019s Achilles Heel"},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcalifornia-democrats-fear-working-class-latinos-will-be-gavin-newsoms-achilles-heel%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=704606&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>Democrats in California are afraid low support among working-class Latino voters could be enough for Gov. Gavin Newsom to be recalled, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLatinos are the shifting demographic in this country,\u201d former San Diego City Councilman Carl DeMaio told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/08\/31\/democrats-latino-turnout-california-recall-508012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Politico<\/a>. \u201cIn 2016, it was working class whites. In 2020, we started to see a pronounced shift in working class Latinos, and that\u2019s what\u2019s happening right now,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newsom skirting his own strict COVID-19 guidance, which greatly affected businesses in the state, has made the governor appear out of touch with working-class Latinos, Politico reported. An August <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/f\/?id=0000017b-9d65-da46-a3fb-fff71f4c0000\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS News-YouGov poll<\/a> showed Latinos, who represent 30% of the electorate, evenly split on whether to recall <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/26\/kamala-harris-cancels-campaign-rally-gavin-newsom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsom<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe French Laundry stuff is really harmful in the Latino community,\u201d Amanda Renteria, former national political director of Hillary Clinton\u2019s 2016 presidential campaign, told Politico, referencing the restaurant that hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/11\/18\/newsom-california-french-laundry-indoor-dining-mask\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dinner party<\/a> that maskless Newsom attended.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Arana, vice president of policy at the Latino Community Foundation, which works to increase Latino voter participation, told Politico that messaging and inconsistent engagement with the community has been an issue with Newsom.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7273572\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" readability=\"35\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7273572\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7273572 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234716783-scaled-1.jpg\" alt=\"US-POLITICS-ELECTIONS-GOVERNOR-CALIFORNIA-NEWSOM\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234716783-scaled-1.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/cdn01.dailycaller.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234716783-204x120.jpg 204w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234716783-620x364-1.jpg 620w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234716783-768x451-1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234716783-1536x902-1.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1234716783-2048x1202-1.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7273572\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ballot for a recall election seeking to remove California Governor Gavin Newsom (D) is seen in Los Angeles, on August 15, 2021. (Photo by CHRIS DELMAS\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn the midst of this recall election, all we hear is how the governor is a tyrant \u2014 putting mask mandates and [other pandemic-era restrictions]. But then on the Newsom side, it\u2019s \u2018this is a power grab.\u2019 It seems Latinos are caught in this intergalactic power struggle where we don\u2019t find our place in that,\u201d Arana told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no recognition of us, our problems,\u201d Arana added. \u201cAnd we don\u2019t feel like we\u2019re part of the solution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/projects.fivethirtyeight.com\/california-recall-polls\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">FiveThirtyEight<\/a>\u2018s polling average for the race shows Newsom leading by under 6 points, a far cry from the nearly 30 points President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/17\/gavin-newsom-joe-biden-afghanistan-california-recall-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Joe Biden<\/a> beat former President Donald Trump by. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/08\/24\/democrats-fear-turnout-flop-newsom-recall-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Democrats Fear Turnout Flop For Newsom Recall Election Because Trump Is Out Of The Picture)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Republicans made <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/joe-biden-mike-garcia-nicole-malliotakis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">progress<\/a> with Latino voters in 2020, which has led the GOP to target the districts to further pull the group away from Democrats, Politico reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf [the GOP\u2019s 2020 inroads with Latinos in south Texas were] not a wake-up call for Democrats, I don\u2019t know what is,\u201d Fabian N\u00fa\u00f1ez, a former speaker of the California state assembly, told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s one thing to lose Florida, it\u2019s another thing to lose Latinos in the Southwest. And the lesson here for the Democratic Party is making the long term investment,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The CBS News-YouGov poll surveyed 1,856 California adults with a 4% margin of error.<\/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>Democrats in California are afraid low support among working-class Latino voters could be enough for Gov. Gavin Newsom to be recalled, Politico reported.\u201cLatinos are the shifting demographic in this country,\u201d &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-704606","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\/704606","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=704606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/704606\/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=704606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=704606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=704606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}