Thinking that using a five-year-old child as bait is cute, not to me, and not to anyone in my family. All my family is united in opposing what Trump and his goons are doing. Tackling someone who looks like our father or grandfather is not a way to get Latinos to love you. Torturing children who look like us is no way to get me to vote for Republicans. Ya basta güey
Well, the recent Senate 9 race, which the Democrat won, was in a district that had gone for Trump by 17 points. The district that had been held by a Republican for over 30 years was won by a Democrat, and Latinos had a lot to do with that.
Number crunchers are still parsing the data, and it’s wondrous to behold. Particularly noteworthy is the unmistakable fury of the Latino electorate, which foolishly swung hard toward Trump in 2024, giving him 48% of their vote despite the president’s history of bigotry and disrespect toward them.
That support has collapsed.
In this special election, Latino voters backed the Democratic candidate by an astonishing margin, 85% to 15%, according to VoteHub. This is the political cost of an administration that has chosen xenophobia and cruelty as governing tools, unleashing a campaign of intimidation and violence against immigrant communities and assuming those voters would tolerate it.
… But Gonzales’ “best case for Democrats” analysis hinged on the idea of Latino voters reverting the level of support they showed Democrat Hillary Clinton in 2016, when she won 66% of the Latino vote.
This election blew past that.
When 85% of Latinos are voting Democratic, and when even some Republican voters are crossing over, the math changes fast. Suddenly, nothing is off the table this November—not just House seats but also statewide races as well, including the governorship and the Senate.
I have been stating for weeks that immigration was going to be big, and that those politicians running for office should be at the forefront of the issue. Some of them are now, but it took the death of a White woman and a White man for them to start opening their mouths.
Below is what I wrote back on January 12th of this year.
What a disappointment Gina Hinojosa is turning out to be. If the only way she thinks she can win is by not offending anyone, then she is not a leader and does not deserve to win, even in the March primary. I have been following candidates to see which are willing to at least take a stand on what ICE is doing to brown skinned folks. Now, ICE has taken to killing white women. One would think that might bring out more politicians who like to test the water before deciding whether to support something. Not even that has Gina Hinojosa daring to say anything strongly opposing what Trump and Abbott are doing. She could agree that people here illegally should be deported. I see no problem with that, I agree. How they are going about doing it by targeting people who look Mexican is not the right way, nor the American way. Some of us fought too hard to level the playing field for people like Hinojosa to pretend they don’t see the injustice. The other two candidates are not much better, especially Bobby Cole. Chris Bell actually seems more aware of what is happening to what is probably the largest voting bloc in the State of Texas, which goes Red or Blue in recent elections.
I don’t think people realize it’s a Pete Wilson moment unfolding; it could turn Texas Blue for a long time.
We saw it happen in Arizona to a smaller degree, recall when Arizona was a deep red state.