Democrats were too scary for Latinos in Florida

Published November 4, 2020 1:28pm ET



Democrats haven’t exactly earned a reputation for thoughtful introspection within the last four years. But watching Joe Biden lose Florida in large part thanks to Latino voters who threw in with President Trump should tell you something about their party.

Democrats have become repulsive, and not just in Florida. Trump performed marginally better among Latinos in 2020 than he did in 2016 nationwide, and that’s after a nonstop drumbeat of accusations that Trump is a racist xenophobe, with a huge assist from the national media. Yet he earned more Latino votes in Florida in 2020 than in 2016, robbing Biden of the state’s highly coveted 29 electoral votes.

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