What Republicans and Democrats both get wrong about the Hispanic vote

Published August 14, 2019 3:55pm ET



With over 32 million eligible Hispanic voters this year, we are now looking at the largest Hispanic voting bloc ever seen in American history, and this number is only expected to grow in coming years. Nonetheless, Hispanic and Latino voters are far too often treated as either talking points in right-wing fearmongering schemes about immigration, or pawns in the left’s never-ending identity politics race-baiting gambit.

To understand the vastness of the Hispanic vote, just consider that if Texas Hispanics voted Democrat at the rate Hispanics do nationwide, Texas would possibly become a blue state. And as the Hispanic population continues to grow, both parties will have no choice but to pay more attention to their concerns.

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