In a revealing interview with Ben Meiselas, GOP consultant and author Mike Madrid discusses how Latinos’ shifting priorities are shaping U.S. politics and what Democrats must do to keep their support.
This is an excellent lesson to learn. I am part of this community and I can confirm that the political views are diverse. But it may be too late. If Trump, his minions, and Project 2025 have their way, this may have been the last “real” election for us.
Why does any particular community need to be appeased to get their votes? The language describing the incredibly successful economy under President Biden's care needs and needed to change. For EVERYONE! It has to be boldly spoken of, taken credit for and drummed into everyone in society. Being shy or modest is not an American trait so why the modesty about what was accomplished by President Biden??
When the IRS checks went out courtesy Nancy Pelosi ( Trump opposed it) he did not lose a heartbeat signing those checks as if they were from him. Republicans go flaunt every dollar they bring back to their community even after they oppose every initiative during the Dem era. Learn marketing from them. Learn to tout accomplishments - take credit and beat your own drum. I always thought you HAVE to do that to get any credit because otherwise someone else will. Politics is not an arena for shy folks. Truths told boldly, principles stick to fiercely and speaking loudly always rules in politics!
Please continue to send announcements to educate. It takes time for the economy to change. Trump took advantage of what Obama did and he hurt the Biden administration with what he did. Trump wii try to take credit for the currently improving economy and wii ruin the next presidency with his horrendous actions. The answer to the question “were you better off under trump economically?” Is yes but because of Obama. The answer to were you better off under Biden may be no but Because of trump. People need to understand this AND the DNC needs to recognize the sabotage to them that having a republican in office causes.
If you want to get through to Latinos talk to them like normal people and talk about how you can fix pocketbook issues because at the end of the day that’s what they want. As a Latino don’t treat me like an immigrant treat me like an American. Kamala was getting better at that but it was too short of time for her to get that message out
Listen, Democrats have always run to help the middle class or offer the opportunity to become part of it and always helped the the lower class. The economy got hit with Trumps first tariffs when farmers had to be bailed out, and then his asinine handling of covid. Inflation didn’t just come out of nowhere and I get it, it sucks paying more for things than they did 10 years ago but inflation is at 2.1% now and the fed started lowering rates. It doesn’t just magically disappear. I’m not racist and believe that everyone should be treated equal but he’s saying that Latinos voted for Trump because he “said” he was going to wave his magic wand and prices would go down and they would get tax cuts and they actually believed that. Now look at where we are at and how the Democrats were right about Project 2025. So wait until these new tariffs hit and prices go up even more with cops and militia dragging people in the streets and see how they feel then. Our Democracy, which allows you to vote, was on the line. Just like it took a few years for inflation to stir up, it was going to take at least that much for it to go down and Kamala had great ideas for the middle class. So voting for Trump or even believing him, no look where we are. Latinos haven’t been living under a rock for the past 10 years…they should have known better but here we are. Now we have to try and get out of this mess that we’re in for allowing Trump to get in.
Is part of the problem that all persons called Latino don't think of themselves as one group. Puerto Ricans don't think of themselves in the same group as Mexicans for example.
TO demand a hand recount beginning in Pennsylvania---
Please mobilize your supporters to start mobilizing phone calls and emails to all democratic governors, reps, senators and the white house--using the languaging:
We, the people, DEMAND a full audit and hand recount beginning in Pennsylvania and other blue wall and swing states. The corruption will be revealed thru a hand count.
All the numbers are wrong!
I cannot even watch you anymore because you all collapsed into fear and the wrong focus that we should have now. Please stop interpreting FALSE numbers and FALSE trends.
When we need to be demanding that the results be heavily deeply and professionally audited thru HAND RECOUNTS
of course the biggest computer techs and nations with that ability are all on Trump's side.
They can easily engineer an undetectable virus that flips a blue wave into a red wave.
WAKE UP and demand the solution!
Doing these expert interpretations using the current fake numbers IS SO NOT HELPFUL MTN.
Don't respond to a giant deception like this!
Do something to create a recount!
You have a lot of contacts that could help with this ---
We, the people, don't have the type of contacts that you do.
Please put MTN's energy into demanding a HAND recount in key states!
(not using any computer programs they used for the results--the programs are somehow corrupted) I see a lot of ways they could have pulled this off.
Like possibly using those interactive layered state election maps.
There is data there from 2020, 2022 & 2024
If key rural districts are compared NONE OF THE NUMBERS Add UP--
It shows reversals everywhere... the 4 young nerdy tech guys on your live feed Tuesday when you took breaks (Split TIcket) were discovering that. Talk to them ! @MazTmcc was one of them
He can be messaged on Twitter.
Every small blue blue area shifted hard Red TOO FAST on Tuesday night.
EVERY winner was 100-150,000 votes ahead very fast in Presidential and Senate races.
Why do all of them have a similar amount of winning votes? A number that would not be questioned.... its a HACK they couldn't detect on election day because it happened way before election day and it is buried---deeply---!
It looks like there are some key states they did not mess with much like California and NY
all the states they gave her were not interfered with the way the Blue Wall and Swing states were. A few democratic Senate races that were lost were also CORRUPTED!
after auditing and hand counting Pennsylvania they WILL find the corruption.
Next Florida & Texas need the same audit and hand count.
Do not cave into these LIES! --please MTN
This demand of an audit is where your energy should be---
3 million people demanding this at key agencies is much more helpful than what you are doing now interpreting FALSE numbers with FALSE narratives. #TrumpCheated.
This is simple. Not hard to understand. There are some people, including Latino culture, who would rather vote for the absolute dregs of society, a criminal, rapist, hateful liar, etc. than take a chance on a woman in the presidency. Call that whatever you want. It's obvious to many of us.
James Carville’s slogan about the economy won the presidency for Bill Clinton.
The economy is always a trigger for politicians to get votes.
Ironically, every time a Democrat wins the presidency, he has had to clean up huge deficits left by his Republican successor. Obama left a good economy to Trump, who added tens of millions to the deficit.
Why? Because every time Republicans win the White House they make it rain money among their friends and donors. They clean out the treasury and cut social programs and rob taxpayers to pay the wealthiest.
Todsy’s economy is like it is because some workers fought successfully to increase the minimum wage to $15 that and the extra COVID funds given, not by Trump, but by a Democratic majority in Congress, was the impetus for retailers and service providers to increase prices.
Prices also are up as a result of the $8Trillion Tax Cut Trump
gave to the wealthy.
That tax cut was tantamount to buying & purchasing dark money contributions and support for his recent presidential run. When pundits say Trump is transactional, what they really mean is everything he does is a quid pro quo deal.
Additionally, the the tariffs Trump put in place have also resulted in high prices for everyday items.
And Trump will put more tarriffs in place and, once again, American consumers will bear the cost. He will lower the corporate tax rate from 21
percent to 15 percent.
Who's going yo pay for that? You and me.
Greedflation occurred when retailers amped up prices while the Federal Reserve (a NGO) simultaneously raised interest rates (to favor Trump’s next election
Bid & get Americans to blame the Biden Administration).
Interestingly, a few weeks ago the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by one-quarter and did another cut earlier this week. Again, to help Trump.
VP Kamala Harris’ economic plans aimed to provide economy opportunities to everyone. Harris also had specific opportunity plans for Black & Latino men.
She had great plans for uplifting everyone with economic opportunities.
At least 23 economists signed a letter saying Harris’ plans would expand the economy while Trump’s economic plan would be chaotic and cause, what Elon Musk called, Temporary Hardships."
So for voters who said they voted for Trump because he is a businessman and they believe he is better for the economy than Democrats, I have a question: How in the hell is someone who filed bankruptcy four times a successful businessman?
And how can someone who lost tens of thousands of jobs and spent $8T in tax cuts for his millionaire and billionaire buddies and will again, do anything for John and Jane Doe?
And, economy aside, why would anyone vote for a convicted felon who launched an insurrection against the U.S. Congress? Or vote for an immoral, vile, nasty no home-training, garbage mouth person who hates women and people of color?
Either the people who believe the convicted felon and con-man will be better for the economy than the Democrats and VP Harris and Governor Walz are delusional, or they are lying and their support for Trump is about other things rather than the economy.
To them II say: It's Not About The Economy Stupid!
And by the way, Latino voted for Trump in the same numbers in 2016. I think it’s more to do with male supremacy and misogynistic attitudes as well as no longer being catered to. Before 2026, Latinos were the most powerful group when it came to voting. But with BLM, blacks replaced them as the focus. And as such Latinos lost all the power and entitlements that came from being the most powerful electoral group.
The next Latino shift in the US is going to be into holding pens, courtesy of the genocidal maniac they just helped elect. No one's going to have to try to gain their support in the future, because they *have* no future under the trumpists.
I am afraid I take a different approach to this or any other attempt to excuse folks for supporting Trump.
If you are really wanting to be part of this country and be accepted by the vast number of "prior immigrants" then you must realize all of us have, occasionally put aside our needs, for the betterment of the country. Consider the enormous efforts of those Japanese Americans, whose parents were in internment camps, but decide to put their own needs aside and fight in the 442nd Infantry Division in WWII or the thousands and thousands of African American who made similar choices. I am sorry the democrats didn't do as much as these Latino men wanted. But what do they think Trump will do. They (Trump) aannounced today that anyone here illegally or even suspected of that status plus any anchor babies, their grandparents etc.. will all be deported. Even Trump's number one pick for AG says he will put kids in cages. So stop pointing fingers at anyone but those who supported Trump, even against their own best interest.
How much will Latinos pay to bury their wives, daughters or granddaughters that died from complications of pregnancy? If health and safety of the women in your life means less than the price of eggs, then welcome to and enjoy trumpland. He is not going to get you any money, rather, he is going to take your money.
Before we start picking apart demographic slices, I think we should for commonality across all groups that voted for the Tangerine Terror. What do they share, such as how they get their news or their use of social media. Did Latino men watch Trump rallies? Probably not, since no one else did. So how do they know about him? How did they form their attitudes? Could be the same as with all of *rump's supporters--from watching Fox. I would poll Latino *rump voters and look for common themes and keywords, then search the media channels for those to see what channel was most informing their perceptions and attitudes. Find that and you have the influencer doing the damage.
This is an excellent lesson to learn. I am part of this community and I can confirm that the political views are diverse. But it may be too late. If Trump, his minions, and Project 2025 have their way, this may have been the last “real” election for us.
Why does any particular community need to be appeased to get their votes? The language describing the incredibly successful economy under President Biden's care needs and needed to change. For EVERYONE! It has to be boldly spoken of, taken credit for and drummed into everyone in society. Being shy or modest is not an American trait so why the modesty about what was accomplished by President Biden??
When the IRS checks went out courtesy Nancy Pelosi ( Trump opposed it) he did not lose a heartbeat signing those checks as if they were from him. Republicans go flaunt every dollar they bring back to their community even after they oppose every initiative during the Dem era. Learn marketing from them. Learn to tout accomplishments - take credit and beat your own drum. I always thought you HAVE to do that to get any credit because otherwise someone else will. Politics is not an arena for shy folks. Truths told boldly, principles stick to fiercely and speaking loudly always rules in politics!
Please continue to send announcements to educate. It takes time for the economy to change. Trump took advantage of what Obama did and he hurt the Biden administration with what he did. Trump wii try to take credit for the currently improving economy and wii ruin the next presidency with his horrendous actions. The answer to the question “were you better off under trump economically?” Is yes but because of Obama. The answer to were you better off under Biden may be no but Because of trump. People need to understand this AND the DNC needs to recognize the sabotage to them that having a republican in office causes.
If you want to get through to Latinos talk to them like normal people and talk about how you can fix pocketbook issues because at the end of the day that’s what they want. As a Latino don’t treat me like an immigrant treat me like an American. Kamala was getting better at that but it was too short of time for her to get that message out
Listen, Democrats have always run to help the middle class or offer the opportunity to become part of it and always helped the the lower class. The economy got hit with Trumps first tariffs when farmers had to be bailed out, and then his asinine handling of covid. Inflation didn’t just come out of nowhere and I get it, it sucks paying more for things than they did 10 years ago but inflation is at 2.1% now and the fed started lowering rates. It doesn’t just magically disappear. I’m not racist and believe that everyone should be treated equal but he’s saying that Latinos voted for Trump because he “said” he was going to wave his magic wand and prices would go down and they would get tax cuts and they actually believed that. Now look at where we are at and how the Democrats were right about Project 2025. So wait until these new tariffs hit and prices go up even more with cops and militia dragging people in the streets and see how they feel then. Our Democracy, which allows you to vote, was on the line. Just like it took a few years for inflation to stir up, it was going to take at least that much for it to go down and Kamala had great ideas for the middle class. So voting for Trump or even believing him, no look where we are. Latinos haven’t been living under a rock for the past 10 years…they should have known better but here we are. Now we have to try and get out of this mess that we’re in for allowing Trump to get in.
Is part of the problem that all persons called Latino don't think of themselves as one group. Puerto Ricans don't think of themselves in the same group as Mexicans for example.
Just as Catholics in Wisconsin still have a German church two blocks from the Irish church in most towns.
No--- we DO have another option Ben--
TO demand a hand recount beginning in Pennsylvania---
Please mobilize your supporters to start mobilizing phone calls and emails to all democratic governors, reps, senators and the white house--using the languaging:
We, the people, DEMAND a full audit and hand recount beginning in Pennsylvania and other blue wall and swing states. The corruption will be revealed thru a hand count.
All the numbers are wrong!
I cannot even watch you anymore because you all collapsed into fear and the wrong focus that we should have now. Please stop interpreting FALSE numbers and FALSE trends.
When we need to be demanding that the results be heavily deeply and professionally audited thru HAND RECOUNTS
of course the biggest computer techs and nations with that ability are all on Trump's side.
They can easily engineer an undetectable virus that flips a blue wave into a red wave.
WAKE UP and demand the solution!
Doing these expert interpretations using the current fake numbers IS SO NOT HELPFUL MTN.
Don't respond to a giant deception like this!
Do something to create a recount!
You have a lot of contacts that could help with this ---
We, the people, don't have the type of contacts that you do.
Please put MTN's energy into demanding a HAND recount in key states!
(not using any computer programs they used for the results--the programs are somehow corrupted) I see a lot of ways they could have pulled this off.
Like possibly using those interactive layered state election maps.
There is data there from 2020, 2022 & 2024
If key rural districts are compared NONE OF THE NUMBERS Add UP--
It shows reversals everywhere... the 4 young nerdy tech guys on your live feed Tuesday when you took breaks (Split TIcket) were discovering that. Talk to them ! @MazTmcc was one of them
He can be messaged on Twitter.
Every small blue blue area shifted hard Red TOO FAST on Tuesday night.
EVERY winner was 100-150,000 votes ahead very fast in Presidential and Senate races.
Why do all of them have a similar amount of winning votes? A number that would not be questioned.... its a HACK they couldn't detect on election day because it happened way before election day and it is buried---deeply---!
It looks like there are some key states they did not mess with much like California and NY
all the states they gave her were not interfered with the way the Blue Wall and Swing states were. A few democratic Senate races that were lost were also CORRUPTED!
after auditing and hand counting Pennsylvania they WILL find the corruption.
Next Florida & Texas need the same audit and hand count.
Do not cave into these LIES! --please MTN
This demand of an audit is where your energy should be---
3 million people demanding this at key agencies is much more helpful than what you are doing now interpreting FALSE numbers with FALSE narratives. #TrumpCheated.
This is simple. Not hard to understand. There are some people, including Latino culture, who would rather vote for the absolute dregs of society, a criminal, rapist, hateful liar, etc. than take a chance on a woman in the presidency. Call that whatever you want. It's obvious to many of us.
IT’S NOT THE ECONOMY STUPID!
James Carville’s slogan about the economy won the presidency for Bill Clinton.
The economy is always a trigger for politicians to get votes.
Ironically, every time a Democrat wins the presidency, he has had to clean up huge deficits left by his Republican successor. Obama left a good economy to Trump, who added tens of millions to the deficit.
Why? Because every time Republicans win the White House they make it rain money among their friends and donors. They clean out the treasury and cut social programs and rob taxpayers to pay the wealthiest.
Todsy’s economy is like it is because some workers fought successfully to increase the minimum wage to $15 that and the extra COVID funds given, not by Trump, but by a Democratic majority in Congress, was the impetus for retailers and service providers to increase prices.
Prices also are up as a result of the $8Trillion Tax Cut Trump
gave to the wealthy.
That tax cut was tantamount to buying & purchasing dark money contributions and support for his recent presidential run. When pundits say Trump is transactional, what they really mean is everything he does is a quid pro quo deal.
Additionally, the the tariffs Trump put in place have also resulted in high prices for everyday items.
And Trump will put more tarriffs in place and, once again, American consumers will bear the cost. He will lower the corporate tax rate from 21
percent to 15 percent.
Who's going yo pay for that? You and me.
Greedflation occurred when retailers amped up prices while the Federal Reserve (a NGO) simultaneously raised interest rates (to favor Trump’s next election
Bid & get Americans to blame the Biden Administration).
Interestingly, a few weeks ago the Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by one-quarter and did another cut earlier this week. Again, to help Trump.
VP Kamala Harris’ economic plans aimed to provide economy opportunities to everyone. Harris also had specific opportunity plans for Black & Latino men.
She had great plans for uplifting everyone with economic opportunities.
At least 23 economists signed a letter saying Harris’ plans would expand the economy while Trump’s economic plan would be chaotic and cause, what Elon Musk called, Temporary Hardships."
So for voters who said they voted for Trump because he is a businessman and they believe he is better for the economy than Democrats, I have a question: How in the hell is someone who filed bankruptcy four times a successful businessman?
And how can someone who lost tens of thousands of jobs and spent $8T in tax cuts for his millionaire and billionaire buddies and will again, do anything for John and Jane Doe?
And, economy aside, why would anyone vote for a convicted felon who launched an insurrection against the U.S. Congress? Or vote for an immoral, vile, nasty no home-training, garbage mouth person who hates women and people of color?
Either the people who believe the convicted felon and con-man will be better for the economy than the Democrats and VP Harris and Governor Walz are delusional, or they are lying and their support for Trump is about other things rather than the economy.
To them II say: It's Not About The Economy Stupid!
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And by the way, Latino voted for Trump in the same numbers in 2016. I think it’s more to do with male supremacy and misogynistic attitudes as well as no longer being catered to. Before 2026, Latinos were the most powerful group when it came to voting. But with BLM, blacks replaced them as the focus. And as such Latinos lost all the power and entitlements that came from being the most powerful electoral group.
The next Latino shift in the US is going to be into holding pens, courtesy of the genocidal maniac they just helped elect. No one's going to have to try to gain their support in the future, because they *have* no future under the trumpists.
I am afraid I take a different approach to this or any other attempt to excuse folks for supporting Trump.
If you are really wanting to be part of this country and be accepted by the vast number of "prior immigrants" then you must realize all of us have, occasionally put aside our needs, for the betterment of the country. Consider the enormous efforts of those Japanese Americans, whose parents were in internment camps, but decide to put their own needs aside and fight in the 442nd Infantry Division in WWII or the thousands and thousands of African American who made similar choices. I am sorry the democrats didn't do as much as these Latino men wanted. But what do they think Trump will do. They (Trump) aannounced today that anyone here illegally or even suspected of that status plus any anchor babies, their grandparents etc.. will all be deported. Even Trump's number one pick for AG says he will put kids in cages. So stop pointing fingers at anyone but those who supported Trump, even against their own best interest.
How much will Latinos pay to bury their wives, daughters or granddaughters that died from complications of pregnancy? If health and safety of the women in your life means less than the price of eggs, then welcome to and enjoy trumpland. He is not going to get you any money, rather, he is going to take your money.
Makes me wonder how Mexico voted in a woman. Are Mexican men just more intelligent or are Mexicans in America just too American.
To what extent did Catholic faith amongst Latinos and antiabortion changes draw Latinos to support Trump?
Before we start picking apart demographic slices, I think we should for commonality across all groups that voted for the Tangerine Terror. What do they share, such as how they get their news or their use of social media. Did Latino men watch Trump rallies? Probably not, since no one else did. So how do they know about him? How did they form their attitudes? Could be the same as with all of *rump's supporters--from watching Fox. I would poll Latino *rump voters and look for common themes and keywords, then search the media channels for those to see what channel was most informing their perceptions and attitudes. Find that and you have the influencer doing the damage.