Former President Donald Trump’s appeal to Latino voters, according to the new research, may have been more widespread than originally thought.
Democrats propose their focus on increasing turnout among minority voters for the 2020 election, but Latino voters with low involvement in politics are shifting to Trump, according to a new report by Equis Labs, which sees itself as focused on the ‘Latinx’ community ‘described.
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“Trump gains appear to be unique among those who identify them as geography and geography and place of origin,” the researchers wrote.
Trump also “galvanized” conservative Latinas, while liberal Latinas reportedly lost enthusiasm for votes.
FILE – Trump gives the cheering crowd thumbs up to a Latinos for the Trump Coalition Round Table in Phoenix, in this September 14, 2020 file photo (AP Photo / Ross D. Franklin, file)
Democrat-affiliated Equis Labs presented various theories as to why Trump appealed to Latino voters, including ‘dog whistle-blowing politics and racial status anxiety’ and ‘activation around religion, SCOTUS and QAnon’.
“Neither party should accept that a Spanish voter who voted for Trump in 2020 is locked up as a Republican,” the researchers wrote. “Nor can we accept that this move was exclusive to Trump and that it will return on its own.”
However, Trump’s increased support from Latino voters in 2020 to 2016 was not enough to win the election. President Biden defeated Latinos by about two-to-one margin, while Trump, according to opinion polls, had the support of about one in three.
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The Trump campaign spent the Biden campaign on Spanish ads in the run-up to the election.
Nearly 17 million Latinos voted in the 2020 general election, an increase of more than 30% compared to 2016, according to UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Initiative data quoted by The New York Times.