Texas mayor with Puerto Rican roots tells Glenn Beck why Hinchcliffe joke isn’t going to end the way the left hopes



The left is half balking at, half rejoicing in comedian Tony Hinchcliffe’s jabs at Puerto Rico during Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. On one hand, they’re disgusted by the so-called xenophobia and racism. On the other hand, they’re thrilled that the insult that Puerto Rico is “a floating island of garbage” will surely drive Latinos to the polls to vote for Kamala Harris.

Actually, no it won’t.

According to Armin Mizani, Puerto Rican mayor of Keller, Texas, the Hinchcliffe controversy won't impact the election as much as the left hopes it will.

Mayor Mizani joined Glenn Beck to explain why “millions of Latinos” will still be voting for Donald Trump.

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“I’ll tell you what’s on Puerto Ricans’ minds — it’s the fact that, on any given day, you can’t account for the fact of whether or not your power is going to be on,” Mayor Mizani told Glenn.

“Frankly, what in my opinion is garbage is the fact that we’ve got a government in Puerto Rico that should be attending to its people — great people. But you saw it with the hurricane that happened back in 2017. It’s a misallocation of funds,” he explained, adding that “a lot of Puerto Ricans ... are awakening” to the reality of their corrupt government.

As for the Puerto Rican voters in the United States who know what’s going on in their home country, Mizani knows what’s really motivating them — and it’s not some crude joke.

In a tweet Mizani posted on October 28, he made it clear what actually motivates Latinos: “faith, family, and economic opportunity.”

“Under the Biden and Harris administration, Americans have seen record inflation, an open southern border, increased crime, the weakening of the family structure, and the taking away of God from our daily lives. In contrast, under President Trump, Americans saw secured borders, economic prosperity, a respect for people of faith, and a respect for American values,” he wrote. “This is why I, along with millions of Latinos, will help re-elect President Trump back into the White House.”

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Democrat likens Latino support for Trump to idea of Jews backing Hitler



Democratic Rep. Vicente Gonzalez of Texas has suggested that the notion of Latinos supporting former President Donald Trump would be like Jews supporting Adolf Hitler.

"If they didn’t have that racist, divisive element within their party, they would have a lot of Latinos, but they can't seem to shake that off. The rhetoric you hear from the Republican Party is shameful and disgraceful for Latinos. And you know, when you see 'Latinos for Trump,' to me it is like seeing 'Jews for Hitler,' almost, you know?" the congressman said, according to the New Republic.

Gonzales, who is currently seeking re-election, is facing a challenge from former GOP Rep. Mayra Flores represented Texas' 34th Congressional District after winning a special election in mid-2022 but went on to lose the general election to Gonzalez later that same year. Gonzales has served in the House since early 2017.

Flores slammed her opponent's remarks: "Vicente Gonzalez’s racist comments are incredibly hurtful to our entire Latino community. While he continues peddling in hate and division, I’m going to focus on policies that uplift our entire community, including lower costs, a secure border, safer communities and a focus on faith, family and more opportunities in South Texas," she tweeted.

"I'm stating the obvious. Mayra Flores champions President Trump, who was quoted calling hard-working Mexican immigrants rapists and criminals — saying they're not our friends," the congressman said, according to Fox News Digital. "She threw her lot in with Marjorie Taylor Greene and George Santos instead of with South Texans."

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Hispanic voters, one of the most highly sought-after voting blocs for both Republicans and Democrats, are now evenly divided in their support for the two major U.S. political parties, a new poll finds.

A survey conducted by the Wall Street Journal shows that just one year after Democratic House candidates won 60% of the Hispanic vote, equal numbers of Latino voters now say they would support Republicans and Democrats at 37%. Another 22% responded that they were undecided between the two parties.

Hispanic voters were also nearly evenly divided on a hypothetical 2020 rematch in the upcoming 2024 presidential election. President Joe Biden would be supported by 44% of those surveyed, while former President Donald Trump would be supported by 43% of respondents. If the trends in this poll are accurate, this would be a monumental rightward shift for Hispanic voters, 63% of whom voted for Biden in 2020 in a 30-point landslide over Trump for this demographic.

"Latinos are more and more becoming swing voters ... They’re a swing vote that we’re going to have to fight for," Democratic pollster John Anzalone, whose company helped the Wall Street Journal conduct the poll, said.

Anzalone was the lead pollster for Biden's 2020 presidential campaign. The Wall Street Journal hired his firm along with that of Republican pollster Tony Fabrizio, the former lead pollster for the Trump campaign, in a new effort "that will explore the forces driving American politics and changes in society."

Together, the pollsters found that economic issues are the driving force behind Hispanic support for Republicans, particularly among Hispanic men.

Hispanic men said that Republicans have better economic policy by a margin of 17 points. Women, on the other hand, favor Democratic economic policies by a 10 point margin.

A majority of Hispanic men said they would like to see a return to Trump's economic policies, while Hispanic women prefer Biden's policies.

"You see in this poll that there’s a group of Hispanic men who were without a doubt enticed by Trump and have become more Republican,’’ Anzalone said.

"This says to me that the economy matters, particularly to Hispanic men. The economy and economic factors are driving them,” Fabrizio said.

The Wall Street Journal surveyed 1,500 registered voters, including 165 Hispanic voters, with a margin of error of plus or minus 7.6 percentage points. The poll was conducted from Nov. 16 to Nov. 22. Half of the respondents were interviewed via cellphone. One quarter were contacted by text message and completed an internet survey. Another quarter of respondents were interviewed by landline phone.

MSNBC guest says Democrats' 'greatest nightmare' is the increase in support for Trump among Latinos



An MSNBC guest lamented that the growing support among Latinos for former President Donald Trump in 2020 was the "greatest nightmare" for Democrats.

Paola Ramos, the former Deputy Director of Hispanic Press for Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign, blamed a "cultural identity crisis" for results from a new poll showing Trump increased his support among Latinos by 10% from 2016 to 2020.

"How? How after four years of Donald Trump, after hearing about the wall, about seeing family separation, after seeing hate crimes rise, after hearing the words, 'go back to your country,' how is it possible that Donald Trump did 10 points better with Latinos than he did in 2016?" asked Ramos in the segment from Monday.

"It goes beyond politics, it goes beyond strategy, it goes beyond Democrats needing better strategies, better tactics, better messaging," she explained. "I think what we're seeing right now when we see those numbers, is that there is a cultural identity crisis that we are undergoing as a community that is completely splitting and dividing Latinos.

"And in this crisis you have on the one hand, Latinos that believe that in order to achieve the American Dream you have to get as close as possible to whiteness, and that is something that Trump gave them permission to do. And on the other hand you have Latinos that believe that in order to achieve the American Dream, you have to get as far as possible from whiteness," she continued.

Ramos said that Democrats needed to reach out to different identity groups within Latinos, like indigenous and transgender people, in order to change them from being a "nightmare" for Democrats.

"The biggest thing that I would say is let's break our own stereotypes and let's have very genuine curiosity about how we are changing," she added, "and what those nuances are, and that can really really really give Democrats what they need, which is for Latinos to be their biggest weapon and not necessarily their biggest nightmare, which we're sort of in the middle of that right now."

Ramos went on to say that it would be very difficult for Democrats to seek after the "lost Latinos" who supported Trump in 2020 while retaining those who supported Democrats.

Here's the segment with Paola Ramos:

Paola Ramos: Trump's Improvement Among Latino Voters is 'Beyond Politics'www.youtube.com

Latino-majority counties in Texas flipped to Trump after voting for Hillary, and many said jobs changed their vote



Democrats hoping to flip Texas to the blue column were stunned and surprised when President Donald Trump won the state on Election Day, but the bigger surprise was that Latinos helped keep the state Republican.

According to some reports, they voted for Trump after supporting former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over their concerns about jobs.

Judge Joe Rathmell in Zapata County said that he had never seen so many people vote for a Republican in the rural majority Latino community. He says Biden's comments against the oil industry incentivized many of those votes to flip to the Republican column.

"It's not like we're in complete agreement in what President Trump was advocating," Rathmell told KENS5-TV. "But I think in the end, from what I've been hearing, residents were really concerned about losing their jobs.

Armando Peralta told KENS5 that he voted for Trump because he believed that he was bringing more oil jobs.

"The reason I did it is because he was bringing a lot of work in the oil fields," Peralta said.

He said that he was worried that a Biden presidency might threaten those jobs.

"Hope it doesn't hurt it. I mean, everybody depends on that," Peralta explained.

Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott cited the report to support the claim that jobs had helped turn the formerly Democratic counties in south Texas into a "battleground" region in which Republicans can compete in the future.

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"Several historically Democratic south Texas counties with high Latino populations voted for Trump over Biden. A big issue was jobs," said Abbott.

Judge Rathmell, however, cautioned against thinking that those votes had become Republican for coming elections.

"I don't believe (I) would call it a permanent shift to the Republican Party," Rathmell explained. "Frankly, in this election, there was only one candidate, the one Republican candidate that the voters supported, which was President Trump. All the other Republican candidates lost in our county."

Here's more about the surprise Latino flip in Texas:

Democratic strongholds in south Texas instead opted for Trump over Biden in the 2020 electionwww.youtube.com

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