The former president of the USADonald Trump, announced last Sunday, during his campaign at presidential election November of this year, the coalition “Latin Americans for Trump”, which is made up of members of Latino communities in the United States, and Republican senators, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, as well as Congressman Carlos Giménez.
According to the statement, the group is made up of leaders from business, sports, education, faith, elected officials and communications, who will “work tirelessly” to spread the messages of trump “of a strong economy, lower prices, a secure border and peace through strength, at home and abroad.”
It must be remembered that when donald trump announced his first campaign in 2016, he did so with insults to Mexico, since he claimed that the Aztec territory sent “drugs” and “rapists” to the United States, but this year, in his third presidential campaign, he compared immigrants with the character Hannibal Lecter, the murderer of the film “The Silence of the Lambs.”
These comments caused the majority of counties with a large Latino population to vote for him in the 2020 elections. Democratic Party.
However, in some key states such as Texas and Florida, Republicans registered a significant increase in votes in 2020, and at the federal level, the percentage of Latinos who supported Trump was 38%, ten points more than in 2016, according to the Pew center.
“In 2024, we will win an even greater share of the Hispanic American vote, setting all-time records for Republicans everywhere on the ballot,” Trump said in the statement.
Florida Senator Rubio noted in the text that the former Republican president “understands the challenges that Hispanic Americans face under the Biden Administration.”
“Growing up in a Cuban home taught me the importance of family, faith and the value of honest work. Under President Trump, Hispanics experienced the lowest unemployment rate in history, their small businesses prospered, prices were low and jobs were plentiful,” explained Cruz, a senator from Texas.
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