A number of factors contributed to Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris this time around, including the US Latino vote leaning more Republican than it did in 2020, when President Joe Biden prevailed.
This change, according to analysts and observers, is significant but not surprising given the decline in Latinos’ long-standing support for the Democratic Party in recent years.
Nearly 20% of Americans are Latino, and the majority were born here, making them an important voting group. It was estimated that 36.2 million Latinos would cast ballots this year.
At a Trump rally in New York, comedian Tony Hinchcliffe was scheduled to make a nasty and poorly timed joke about Puerto Rico being a “floating island of garbage.”
