(Conservative Tribune) – Democrat Party operatives and their liberal media allies are largely counting on election-day turnout from Hispanic and Latino voters in the 2018 midterm elections to help swing control of at least part of Congress back to the left.
To that end, they have played up the narrative of President Donald Trump as a bigoted, racist xenophobe for all that it is worth in the hopes that such racial divisiveness will drive turnout among the desired groups of voters — but that tactic doesn’t appear to be working as intended.
In a lengthy and rather panicked article from CNN, it was noted that a number of political consultants and pollsters on the left were witnessing “unsettling signs” that Democrats would not see a large enough turnout among Hispanics and Latinos on Election Day, and even if such voters did turn out to vote, it likely wouldn’t be because of Trump’s purportedly racist actions and statements.
This despite the at times false and incessant harping from the liberal media about Trump supposedly calling all Mexicans rapists, or his efforts to end the unconstitutional Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or his “zero tolerance” border policy that exposed how illegal immigrant children have been separated from their families at the border for years, among other embellishments and outright lies about Trump and immigration.
“I still think it’s a little too soon to push the panic button, but having said that, we are not seeing the types of numbers with Hispanic voters that we should be seeing with the most hostile person to ever hold public office against Hispanics as the President,” stated Fernand Amandi, of the Democratic polling firm Bendixen & Amandi International.
“And that in and of itself is a concern. I’m flabbergasted,” he added.
Indeed, internal polling among Democrat groups focused on Hispanic and Latino voters have found that there is very little excitement and engagement among such voters in critical House and Senate races in such states as Arizona, California, Florida, Nevada and Texas, particularly in specific districts that Democrats previously assumed were virtual locks.
Of course, some of the consultants and pollsters are brushing off the signs as no real cause for alarm and point to the typical Democrat advantage among minority voters as allowing for a bit of a drop off in turnout, which also tends to be rather low for minorities in midterm election years.
In fact, turnout among Hispanic and Latino voters in presidential election years rarely exceeds 50 percent of eligible voters, and turnout among that subset was a dismal one-third and one-quarter for the midterm years of 2010 and 2014, respectively. Similarly low turnout could doom Democrats this time around, and again, it won’t be because of Trump or even that Hispanics and Latinos are becoming Republicans, but merely that they are unexcited by the Democrat Party candidates.
“I still think it’s a little too soon to push the panic button, but having said that, we are not seeing the types of numbers with Hispanic voters that we should be seeing with the most hostile person to ever hold public office against Hispanics as the President,” stated Fernand Amandi, of the Democratic polling firm Bendixen & Amandi International.
“And that in and of itself is a concern. I’m flabbergasted,” he added.
Trump up 39% approval in NBC hispanic poll
Adding greatly to the sense of alarm on the left was a recent poll from NBC and the Wall Street Journal that placed Trump’s approval rating among Hispanic and Latino voters at 39 percent, well above the 28 percent he earned in the 2016 election, though other polls show his support among those voters as being closer to the 2016 level.
www.teaparty.org/cnn-panicking-warns-unsettling-signs-dems-losing-hispanic-voters-trump-318254/
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