LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Democrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Democrats</span></a> lock on <a href="https://c.im/tags/Latino" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Latino</span></a> vote that they took for granted has apparently expired, along with most of the party&#39;s former core principles.</p><p>While <a href="https://c.im/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Republicans</span></a> are clearly defined, no one&#39;s quite sure what a Democrat is, other than a politician hitching their wagon to Joe Biden, whom polling says less than 30% believe has the mental acuity and physical fitness to enter another term. </p><p>In a tight Presidential race, Democrats can little afford to lose even a fraction of the Latino vote, the fastest growing voter bloc in the US, which is expected to provide about 15% of the total 2024 <a href="https://c.im/tags/ballots" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ballots</span></a> cast. </p><p>As recently as 2012 , 70% of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hispanic" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Hispanic</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://c.im/tags/LatinX" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LatinX</span></a> voters dug the Donkey, but that total has severely spiraled into toilet since, with new polls showing only 20% of <a href="https://c.im/tags/LatinoVoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LatinoVoters</span></a> expressing faith in <a href="https://c.im/tags/BidenAdmin" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BidenAdmin</span></a> to tackle <a href="https://c.im/tags/economy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>economy</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://c.im/tags/crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>crime</span></a>, their most important issues. In a recent Ipsos Latino voter poll commissioned by Axios &amp; Telemundo, Trump had a 22-point edge over Biden when asked about dealing with economic issues.</p><p>Despite a supposed hot economy, decades of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Democrat" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Democrat</span></a> promises in aspirational immigrant communities have oft delivered few tangible results that voters see on a daily basis, and political consultants say any legislative achievements of Democrats have largely gone unnoticed by most voters in the news spin cycle. Democrat leadership runs most of America&#39;s largest most visible cities, many of which have become a locus of crime, <a href="https://c.im/tags/drogas" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>drogas</span></a> and inevitable urban decay, while occasionally notorious corruption cases such as NJ Sen. Bob Menendez, U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown&#39;s prison time, or the racist LA City Council scandal, all certainly didn&#39;t help bolster the image of Democrat politicians. </p><p>Despite Trump&#39;s overtly bigoted dictator envying <a href="https://c.im/tags/demagoguery" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>demagoguery</span></a>, Democrats are now polling as low as they did in 1960 with non-white voters, back when Klan connected <a href="https://c.im/tags/Dixiecrats" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Dixiecrats</span></a> controlled much of the party caucus.</p><p>Hispanic heritage voters with roots south of the border now seem willing to accept <a href="https://c.im/tags/GOP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GOP</span></a> candidates, many who have claimed religious faith as a mantle. At least one in five Latino voters surveyed as considered switching parties to Republican which, if enacted upon, is a big enough margin to throw the 2024 Presidential election.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Biden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Biden</span></a> either barely leads, or trails <a href="https://c.im/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Trump</span></a> in many recent polls of <a href="https://c.im/tags/latinovoters" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>latinovoters</span></a> such has <a href="https://c.im/tags/NYTimes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NYTimes</span></a> which says Trump now has a 6-point edge with Latino voters, a significant slide, since <a href="https://c.im/tags/JoeBiden" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JoeBiden</span></a> won 60% of their vote just a few years ago. </p><p>Other polls, have shown tighter or even greater divides in a downward direction, as Democrats have politically focused on less bread &amp; butter basics, identity politics and &quot;diversity, equity and inclusion&quot;, many Latinos and other non-white voters, have forged ahead on their own, starting small &amp; large businesses, feeding families, with little interest in the pissing match of petty party politics in America. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/PaywallFree" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PaywallFree</span></a> Links below </p><p><a href="https://thefulcrum.us/ethics-leadership/donald-trump-latino-voters" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thefulcrum.us/ethics-leadershi</span><span class="invisible">p/donald-trump-latino-voters</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.axios.com/2024/04/09/biden-approval-drops-democrat-popularity-rises-latino-voters" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">axios.com/2024/04/09/biden-app</span><span class="invisible">roval-drops-democrat-popularity-rises-latino-voters</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.vox.com/2024-elections/24091684/democrats-latino-voters-trump-biden-polling" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">vox.com/2024-elections/2409168</span><span class="invisible">4/democrats-latino-voters-trump-biden-polling</span></a></p>