A radio host on NPR recently said that Hispanics who support Trump wanted to be white and told Democrats that VP Kamala Harris might lose the race because she doesn’t have enough support from that group.
While talking to Jonathan Capehart on his MSNBC show on Sunday, Maria Hinojosa made fun of Latinos for backing former President Donald Trump.
“They do not want to be linked to all those other foreigners.”
He asked, “Why is our share of the Latino vote going down?”
“People of color want to be white. They want to hang out with the cool kids,” Hinojosa said.
She then said that some Latinos supported Trump because of his business background. She tried to scoff at that by saying that he had been bankrupt in the past.
“They don’t want to be linked to all those other foreigners that Donald Trump talks badly about, like me, who is a Mexican immigrant,” she said. “They say, ‘We’d rather be with him,’”
Capehart asked Hinojosa to comment on polls from NBC News and Telemundo that showed Harris’s support among Latinos had dropped dangerously for Dems. Harris sported a 14% lead among Latinos, but this was a lot less than 2016 and 2020, when Hillary Clinton had a 50% lead and Joe Biden had a 36% lead. Obama also had a 40% lead among Latinos in 2012.
Hinojosa went on to state that the Harris-Walz campaign might fail because Latinos’ support has dropped so sharply.
It was possible for those numbers to cost Kamala Harris the election, she said. “These are the numbers that could prove me wrong about everything I said about how Latinos could help her win.”
The Harris-Walz team recently held a gathering to get Latinos to support them, but sadly, not many Latinos showed up.
