New York (EFE).- Former President Donald Trump announced this Sunday, within the framework of his campaign this year for the Presidency, the ‘Latinos Americans for Trump’ coalition, made up of members of Latino communities in the US, such as Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz and Congressman Carlos Giménez.
The group, according to a statement, is made up of leaders in business, education, sports, faith, communications and elected officials, who will “work tirelessly” to spread Trump’s messages “of a strong economy, lower prices, a secure border and peace through force, at home and abroad.”
Does Trump’s strategy with Latinos change?
When Trump announced his first campaign in 2016, he did so with insults to Mexico, claiming that it sent “drugs” and “rapists” to the United States and, this year, in his third presidential campaign, he compared immigrants to the character Hannibal Lecter, the murderer. from the film ‘The Silence of the Lambs’ (1991).
Comments like this meant that, in the 2020 elections, most counties with a large Latino population voted for the 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 higher than in 2016, according to the Pew center.
“In 2024, we will win an even greater share of the Hispanic American vote, setting historic records for Republicans everywhere on the ballot,” Trump notes in the statement.
Rubio, a senator from Florida, notes 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,” details Cruz, a senator from Texas.
