The Biden Campaign Seems To Be Giving Latinos The Cold Shoulder

Democrats are usually all about getting the votes from the Latino community. In fact, in many cases, they especially cater to Spanish communities. Just look at California Governor Newsom, he went as far as to cut funding to schools to aide illegals and they are not even citizens that can vote. But it looks like Former V.P. Biden is not interested in the Latino vote since he has done next to nothing to get their votes.

In interviews, more than 20 Latino political operatives, lawmakers, and activists said they don’t see a game plan from Biden to marshal Hispanic voters effectively in the fall. They said there’s little evidence the campaign is devoting the resources or hiring the staff that task will require — all the more crucial during a pandemic, when reaching and mobilizing Latino voters through in-person canvassing is nearly impossible.

The campaign has refused to release statistics on the diversity of its staff — details many of his former opponents shared early in the primary — and a majority of a dozen recent high-level hires were white. And Biden has neither spoken to nor been formally endorsed by one of the highest-profile Latino politicians in the country, Julián Castro, since he won.
Biden had a tense relationship with many Latino groups during the primary, stemming largely from his connection to the Obama administration’s aggressive deportation policy. The former vice president recently acknowledged that that policy was misguided and he has moved toward progressives on immigration.

But the campaign’s disconnect with Latinos appears to be based more on lack of execution than on policy. Cash-strapped coming out of the primary and hemmed in by the coronavirus, its efforts to reach Latino voters have been lackluster, critics in the community say.”

I do not think that the Biden campaign thinks that Latinos are part of their path to victory,” said Jess Morales Rocketto, the former digital organizing director for Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign. “If you don’t think Latinos are part of your path to victory, then you do what they’re doing.”

Latinos are on track to be the largest nonwhite voting bloc in November, with 32 million expected to be eligible to vote. Two-thirds of those eligible Latino voters live in just five states, including the potential battlegrounds of Florida, Arizona, and, to a lesser extent, Texas, according to Pew Research. If Biden has any hope of turning out young voters who flocked to his chief rival Bernie Sanders, he’ll need Latinos — 61 percent of the population is under 35.”

Perhaps the Latino community is just not as receptive to Biden’s touchy-feely brand of politics. Well regardless of why this is still a great opportunity for Trump to swoop in a pull in additional Latino votes.

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  • Well, I guess there aren’t that many Latinos out rioting and looting in the streets so Biden has no time for them. But there are some Democrats who want to tear down the Alamo. There, does that help?

    All this Democrat pandering gets conflicting and confusing besides being just simply disgusting.

    Whatever happened to E Pluribus Unum? They’ve turned that into “From One, Many” then set them all against each other.

  • Biden has ignored the Latino vote to the point of saying they are not important, then he insults the black voters, I guess he only considers whites are realistic voters the rest are either stupid and will vote for him or just don’t matter. I can’t understand how either race would vote for him or a democrat.

  • Who says Latinos are “not white?” Almost all Latinos are of the white race; very few of the black race. Many Latinos show a darker skin because of working under the sun. But if they move up north, their skin turns whiter.

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