r/politics • u/chatoka1 • 4d ago

Undecided Voters Say They Now Support Joe Biden After Debate

https://www.newsweek.com/latino-voters-donald-trump-joe-biden-debate-election-1918795
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u/Megalomanizac 4d ago

A group of undecided Latino voters said they would vote for President Joe Biden after watching his Thursday night debate with former President Donald Trump.

While this is still positive, the title is intentionally misleading. Biden was winning the Latino vote regardless. 90% of trumps points were about how Hispanic immigrants were trying to destroy the country.

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u/PudgyPurples 4d ago

You would be surprised how many latino people support Trump especially in states like Florida.

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u/YawnSpawner 4d ago

Cubans and Puerto Ricans are surprisingly racist against central and south Americans. Cubans are also hella catholic and big on anti abortion.

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u/SailorET 3d ago

Cuban Americans are also super triggered by the word "Communism".

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u/eaturfeelins 3d ago

Mostly this. My Cuban family supports that nutter butter orange troll and it’s all out of fear of communism. Makes me sick.

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u/lilit829 3d ago

This is it right here!!!

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u/Otakeb Texas 3d ago

Yeah because all the Cuban Americans are descendent from those wealthy families who had their generational plantations and tons of land seized in the revolution.

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u/ukezi 3d ago

There are also those that made it out later but the vast majority are descendent from those, yes.

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u/Day_of_Demeter 3d ago

The first wave of exiles aren't the majority anymore, not even close

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u/curiosi-tree 3d ago

The vast majority are not, actually. There were not as many land owners as people to work on them. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t stuck with class trader mentality or really bad material experiences with Cuba (whether you believe that’s the fault of communism, the US’s embargo, or something else)

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u/Day_of_Demeter 3d ago

Is this supposed to be an indictment or something? Yeah, of course they are.

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u/Gay__Guevara 3d ago

I mean cubas doing okay considering they’re an embargoed communist state just off the coast of the global hub of capitalism.

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u/Day_of_Demeter 3d ago

No it's not doing okay, and also username checks out. Bye.

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u/SeiryokuZenyo 3d ago

You should try that one on a Venezuelan

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u/Neglectful_Stranger 3d ago

For some reason living under communism makes people not want to live under communism.

Odd, that.

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u/Kennj430 3d ago edited 3d ago

This is 100% accurate. In general, i think naive americans, especially liberals, just assume all immigrants are progressive and tolerant because they are minorities, so why wouldnt they be on the liberal side? But the fact is many immigrant groups often bring their own brands of racism and xenophobia with them from their home countries and cultures, as well as general resentment that other groups coming after them are being treated better and/or being given hand-outs that they weren’t, whether its true or not.

Add in the whole ultra-catholic thing like you mentioned with so many latinos, and boy you got a whole demographic that is primed to get suckered into the GOPs rhetoric

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

I think surprising is the wrong word. The world in general is super racist. I used to live in korea and Japan, and korean people are super racist again 'inferior' asians... japan is even worse.

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u/Consistent_Spread564 3d ago

There's also a lot of Latino people who are not happy with the immigration situation.

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u/IntelligentSpite6364 3d ago

I’m second generation Cuban: You don’t need to figure out what issues cause older Cubans to be right wing: it’s literally only because they hold a grudge against democrats for Kennedy’s failure to remove Castro, and general belief that democrats want to bring Cuban style socialism to America.

Every other issue is inherently dependent on that core belief built by a steady stream of Fox News and right wing Spanish language programming.

In fact until it becomes a wedge issue many Cubans tend be rather moderate or even liberal. My mom was pro-choice when I was young, and in favor of gay rights as a general more rights are more better type stance. But now she’s vehemently against both while simultaneously maintaining a good personal relationship with my gay cousin and her gay brother.

I could write a book on all the ways voting for trump is hurting my parents and family directly but they just never sees it

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u/Day_of_Demeter 3d ago

Cubans are also hella catholic

What are you basing this on? Cubans are very secular. Cuban conservatives in my experience are that way because they dislike anything remotely left-wing, usually it has nothing to do with religion.