Single Trump decision could be driving working-class Hispanics back to the Dems: analysis

Working-class Hispanic voters who turned their backs on Democrats to help elect Donald Trump may soon make a U-turn, according to an analysis in Tuesday's New York Times.

The report listed Trump policies that appealed to Hispanic U.S. citizens and which are currently being carried out: "raids and deportations; the opening of a migrant internment camp at the U.S. base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; the president’s attempt to end automatic citizenship to babies born on U.S. soil; tariffs threatened, then pulled back, on Mexican goods; and the U.S. military dispatched to the border."

But, the report claimed Trump's embrace of billionaire Elon Musk and the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) could be the catalyst that drives Hispanic voters back into the arms of the Democrats.

The Times reported that Hispanic politicians like Representative Greg Casar, "a Democratic rising star in Washington, D.C.," believe "the turmoil both on the border and in the nation’s capital " could be "a return ticket for Hispanic voters...potentially repelled by the emergence of a billionaire, Elon Musk, as a force in the president’s government."

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The report quoted Casar saying, “Trump and Musk are shamelessly robbing working people’s tax dollars in plain sight. Democrats can be the party of working-class people again if we fight tooth and nail against billionaire Republican corruption.”

But pointing out alleged corruption may not be enough to inspire Hispanics to vote Democratic once again.

José Menéndez, a Democratic state senator from San Antonio told the Times that the party "needed to lift up its traditional working-class messaging, without ignoring marginalized groups."

“We need to go back and focus on the kitchen table issues that concern and bother every family. We are the party of the working class," Menendez said.

Sylvia Bruni, a Democratic Party leader, agreed that the party needed to focus less on issues like abortion and gender "if it wanted to win back socially conservative Latinos."

Bruni said, “The Republicans kept telling voters: I promise you, eggs are going to be down to $1 a dozen. Economics is what did us in.”

Read The New York Times article here.