As for Trump’s Latino support, I was shocked that it was so high. But, for months, I’ve been predicting that Trump would get about 20 percent of the Latino vote—which is a lot higher than many of his Latino critics thought possible.
To understand the concept of “Latinos for Trump,” the first thing you have to do is to accept that Latino voters aren’t monolithic, one-dimensional, or single-issue oriented. Like the Boston Irish of the 20th century, some of us may define ourselves first by our ethnicity while others just see ourselves as Americans. Period.
In my travels over the last 18 months, I’ve run across more than my share of Latino Trumpers. Here are a half-dozen things I’ve picked up about how they wound up in Trump’s column:
*They didn’t trust Hillary Clinton, and they couldn’t relate to her in any way.
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