LATINOS NOT QUITE FOR TRUMP:...Republican Touts Newfound Support, But It's Not There...Pew Research Indicates No Rise In Latinos For GOP...

 

By DUARDO PAZ-MARTINEZ

McALLEN, Texas |...Oh, how they wish for a Red Wave in November. Republicans want the whole world to arrive at their door, all hungry for Trump fascism, all eager to vote for him. It's not happening, folks, as Democrat Joe Biden might say about here.

That Red Wave may hit certain beaches on the east coast (the Carolinas and Florida), but too much long-winded racism and bigotry will keep it over that way.

Latinos are not flocking to those beaches. Neither are Blacks.

You'll get the insecure, ethnicity-denying Hispanics and the whimsical Blacks, but not the majority.

This from Pew Research: [ The Pew Research Center released polling this week that casts serious doubt on recent surveys showing Donald Trump making significant gains among Black and Latino voters.

The Pew survey suggested majorities of Latino, Black, and Asian voters continue to largely favor the Democratic Party. The results show very little change among Black and Latino Americans since the early 1990s, while white voters remain almost exactly as aligned with the Republican Party as they were in the early ‘90s.

". . .Not much 'racial realignment' in these Pew numbers," Vanderbilt political science professor John Sides tweeted, attaching a series of Pew graphs tracking party alignment over three decades. ]

It is significant, credible material this research outfit puts out every now and then. Yes, the fight at the ballot box continues, as it should, but any reports that Trump has collared a large number of Latinos is fake news. You'll see that only on far-right news outlets, like the Wall Street Journal, New York Post and the conservative English tabloids across the Atlantic.

Trump's campaign is in more than just financial trouble. He's in court on Monday for that Stormy Daniels hush money trial, a criminal prosecution that requires him to be in court and not out on the campaign trail.

The smiles and gushing optimism will still be there on the face of the once-proud Democrat from Manhattan, but legal experts say he's in deep doo-doo on this case. He is alleged to have paid the strikingly-Catholic Miss Daniels $130,000 for something.

Trump denies the affair and the payment, a transaction for which his previous attorney - Michael Cohen - has already been imprisoned. He may or may not testify; Stormy and Cohen will.

And who knows how the Latino voter angle will play out in down-ballot races.

There are two of those here in the Rio Grande Valley, with 15th Congressional District Republican incumbent Monica De La Cruz seeking reelection and Mayra Flores again pitting herself against Democrat incumbent Vicente Gonzalez in neighboring District 34.

De La Cruz won a tough fight in 2022, while Flores lost to Gonzalez by some 10,000 votes.

No Red Wave has as yet been ballyhooed this time around, much less spotted...

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