With each passing day, Hispanic voters prove to be more alienated by President Joe Biden's policies. More and more Hispanics are deciding to support the Republican Party in the upcoming midterm elections on November 8.
"The Democratic Party has changed a lot, and now I identify more with the Republican Party.... We are for God, for the country, for the family and for work," are the words of Maria Batres, a Hispanic former Democrat who was asked about her shift in political position by MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart.
"We don't feel safe anymore."
The radical direction the Democrats have taken in recent years has done much to alienate a key segment of their base. Many members of the Hispanic community are deciding to change their vote from blue to red.
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Carolina Rodriguez-Greer, director of Mi Familia Vota - a civic engagement organization - told Diaz-Balart that the issues most important to Hispanics, like affordability and quality of life, have been neglected by Democrats:
We see that prices are skyrocketing and we want to know what these people are going to do to help reduce that burden. We are not going to vote blindly in a particular direction, we are going to vote in the direction of the people who are going to pay attention to the issues that are important to us.
Marissa Morentin is a working woman who said she feels used by the Democrats: "I feel like the national Democratic party looks at my demographic and assumes I'm going to vote for them. I am a Latina woman, which historically has been the bread and butter of the party."
"Issues that the Democratic Party no longer solves," such as immigration and border security, are the issues that most concern José Arreola, a resident of El Paso, Texas. "I used to vote blue," he said. "The fact is that we no longer feel safe."
Biden loses support
45% of Hispanic voters disapprove of President Joe Biden's administration. With a month to go before the midterm elections, 33% of Hispanics want a GOP majority in Congress. Results from an NBC News/Telemundo poll reflect that this gap has been cut in half in ten years: from 42 percentage points in 2012 to just 21 today.
