ICYMI: Hispanic Voters Abandoning Democrats in Droves
In case you missed it, a new report highlights the growing drift of Hispanic voters away from the radical, out of touch Democrat Party.
“House Democrats are learning the hard way: Hispanic voters have had enough. Families are fed up with soaring prices, border chaos, and Democrats who put Washington politics ahead of kitchen table concerns. No spin can cover up the damage their radical, out of touch agenda has done.” – NRCC Spokesman Christian Martinez
Democrats have a Hispanic voter problem
The Washington Examiner
The “demographics is destiny” theory pushed by Obama-era Democrats is being rapidly exposed for the racist sham it always was. The idea that increasing the nation’s racial and ethnic diversity would necessarily benefit the Democratic Party presupposed that minority voters all think the same way — a disreputable idea embraced historically by many Democrats and some Republicans.
New data from the Pew Research Center deal the theory a death blow. Nearly half of Hispanic voters supported President Donald Trump in the 2024 election, an increase of 12 points from his showing in 2020 with the rapidly growing ethnic bloc. Support for Democrats among Hispanic voters fell for the fourth consecutive presidential election. In 2012, then-President Barack Obama won 71% of the Hispanic vote, but last year, then-Vice President Kamala Harris won only 51%.
The Hispanic drift away from Democrats included men and women at nearly the same rate. Hispanic men and women supported Trump in 2024 by 50% and 46%, respectively. This was a 13-point gain for Trump with Hispanic women relative to 2020 and defied election forecasts. A Pew poll from September 2024 showed Harris with a 21-point lead over Trump with this group.
The new data also reveal an intensity gap between Republican and Democratic Hispanic supporters: 86% of Trump’s 2020 Hispanic supporters voted in 2024 compared to only 77% of former President Joe Biden’s 2020 Hispanic voters. New Hispanic voters also broke hard for Trump. Among Hispanic eligible voters who did not vote in 2020 but did vote in 2024, 60% voted for Trump, while only 37% voted for Harris.
Democrats also hemorrhaged votes among young Hispanics in 2024, suggesting their troubles with the group will continue for a long time. In 2020, 73% of Hispanics under 30 voted for Biden, but only 57% voted for Harris.
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Growing Hispanic support for Trump’s immigration program and diminishing support for the Democrats’ chaotic open border policies also play a pivotal role. A Pew study from June found that 42% of Hispanic voters favor building more of the U.S. border wall, up from 24% in 2019. Similarly, a 2024 Axios poll found 45% of Hispanic voters saying they support mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
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Naturalized citizens, immigrants who have attained U.S. citizenship, have also abandoned the Democratic Party on immigration. Today, they trust Republicans more on the issue by 8 points, a 40-point swing from only four years ago. The Democrats’ racist expectation that legal Hispanic citizens would prioritize their ethnic affiliation with many illegal immigrants instead of the rule of law and safety backfired.
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