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Senate in two years.

Democrats should learn from 2020 and prep for it now.

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+1 - really need to do some serious soul-searching on getting back some of those Latino votes. Miami-Dade was a disaster. [/quote]
Yes. Latinos swung hard for Trump yesterday. Instead of going on about “the demographics are changing!” and thinking changing demographics automatically means you’ll make inroads with those groups. I always laugh when I hear that line because it’s so...simplistic. Use a little nuance, will you? And actually *gasp* do outreach and work for the votes. Latinos (and any other POC group) are not a monolith. Many are actually very conservative due to immigration and the abortion issue.  [/quote]

I never thought they were a monolith. I did think they would not (in the numbers they did) vote for a guy who called their home countries shitholes, who referred to Mexicans as rapists, questioned a Mexican judge on the basis of his race, and who generally would rather round up and return immigrants from their countries rather than see them as American citizens.[b] But I guess voting against your interests[/b] is something all races, genders, economic castes, suffer from . . . [/quote]
See, this is precisely the problem, I think, and the attitude that led to such big losses for the Democratic Party with Latino voters. Who the hell are you to say what their interests are? Thinking that YOU get to define any individual's "self-interests"...it doesn't work that way. [/quote]

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No one likes to be told what “their interests are” from those who clearly have only their OWN interests in mind.  Democrats are so clueless on this point.[/quote]

I didn't tell anyone what their interests are and am speaking generally. But, coming from recent immigrants (and very conservative catholic ones, at that), I have a pretty good idea of what is important to them. I've had family members called names b/c of their heritage. Made fun of. They came here with nothing. They worked in the factories. They worked in packing plants.

So my views as what is best is just as valid as anyone else's. And I'd suggest a little better than many of the folks posting here on DCUM.

If they think voting for someone who mocks their ethnicity and putting their immigrating countrymen/women in cages or deporting them back with little or no due process is in their interests . . . have at it. That is their right. [/quote]

I suspect to some measure, a disinformation campaign aimed at some of these communities, may account for some of Trump's gains with Americans of different ethnicities.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.freep.com/amp/6393693002

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