An Electoral Shift Among Cuban-Americans?

Latest Polls (view all)

Where do you stand on the Transgender Issue now that the issue has gotten to the overt point of the open celebration of this lifestyle choice, dictated by certain direct and explicit actions.

90.2% I do not approve of behavior that has within its expressed tenants policies that harm children.

8.82% I do support the Trans Community in all its many facets because diversity is at a premium in today's society.

0.98% What is a "Children's Drag Queen Story Hour?"

Click Here to Vote
102 Vote(s)

View all Polls

An Electoral Shift Among Cuban-Americans?

Published: Thursday, October 22nd, 2020 @ 2:14 pm
By: John Locke Foundation ( More Entries )

Publisher's Note: This post appears here courtesy of the John Locke Foundation. The author of this post is Mitch Kokai.

John Loftus writes for National Review Online about an interesting electoral development within a key demographic.

In the 2012 election, Barack Obama won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote, helping him seal victory over Mitt Romney. Democrats and the media subsequently predicted that Obama's capture of Hispanics - particularly his support among Cubans in Florida - defined a clear future for the party. ...
... These predictions, however, may prove to have been more premature than prescient. A Florida International University 2020 poll released in early October found that 59 percent of Cubans in South Florida say they will vote for President Trump. Moreover, according to a report from Equis Research, Trump's anti-socialism and anti-Left messaging resonates with "post-93" Cubans, who arrived in America during the 1994 rafter crisis.
In such data points, Giancarlo Sopo, the director of rapid response for Spanish Language Media at Trump's reelection campaign, sees another electoral shift underway. While the president continues to fall behind Joe Biden in battleground Florida polls - where the Cuban vote is most crucial - Sopo nevertheless maintains this is a shift that will "outlive Joe Biden's campaign." ...
... "Government can help those who cannot otherwise help themselves and invest in public education, roads, and utilities. But you also need to provide people with a long runway to take-off in pursuit of their dreams," Sopo explained. This is, in part, what drew him to the moderate wing of the Democratic Party when he was young: "I care most about the poor and having mechanisms in place to help them, through both a safety net and private charity."
Around 2015, though, Sopo perceived a change in the Democratic Party's rhetoric. "I started noticing that the messaging of the party had shifted away from the Clinton-era focus on equality of opportunity to inequality," he said. In 2018, after Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez deemed Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez the future of the party, Sopo felt increasingly uncomfortable supporting a party "hijacked by the disciples of Marx and Castro."

Go Back

Login to Leave a Comment

GOP Experts Prepare for Democratic Senate Takeover

John Locke Foundation Guest Editorial, Editorials, Op-Ed & Politics

Minneapolis Paying the Price for Today’s Political Turmoil

Our Members

ENCN Sign Up

BCN Home

Beaufort Observer

Portfolios

Current Events: A Historical Perspective

Current Weather

Latest Comments

Latest Polls

Featured Entries

Latest Entries

An Electoral Shift Among Cuban-Americans? | Eastern NC Now

An Electoral Shift Among Cuban-Americans?

Leave a Guest Comment

Latest Op-Ed & Politics

poll: anti-immigration National Rally's Bardella leads for France president, including runoff

conservative state AG Ken Paxton smokes RINO US Senate incumbent Cornyn in Texas

Revolt by sheriffs and DA's against Virginia Democrat Spanberger gun grab accelertes

NC Elections Board settles case on foreign citizens on NC voter registration lists, will remove

Barnes & Noble CEO Slammed For Stance On Selling AI-Generated Books

Beaufort County Government’s Bad Budget Decisions

Truth for our times: Flag never touched ground, Alcohol Provisions Removed, & Empty house

Another de-transitioner wins huge court settlement from "transgender" medical Mafia

RINO US Senate primary candidate in Georgia comes out for amnesty for illegal aliens

WATCH: Country Star Gives Rare College Commencement Speech Focused On Faith And Family

"Traitor Thom" Tillis vows to fight Trump agenda for the remaining months of his term

NY Post editorial - "UN climate warnings were wrong, can we get a refund?"

Illegal alien migrants behaving badly - migrants and crime NEWLY UPDATED

Liberal Beaufort County commission majority votes to keep "Limited Voting" election method

Spanberger moves to protect illegal aliens illegally voting in Virginia elections

How Did Young Dems Rank Israel, Iran, And China?

Conservatives run well in Tuesday prinmaries in four states

Beaufort County Budget, Increased Spending

FBI uncovers decades long Democrat election cheating scheme in California

Birthrate Data Shows Trump’s Immigration Policy Is Working

Trump endorses conservative Paxton in Texas US Senate runoff over RINO incumbent Cornyn

new report: Teachers unions spending more on Democrat politics than on helping members

RINO Tillis still trying to destroy

Virginia DA declares Spanberger gun control law Unconstitutional, refuses to enforce it

materials from indicted radical left SPLC found in public school curriculum in 42 states

NY Post editorial: "Out of control judges lead to out of control crime: - it is the same here

RINO Sen. Bill Cassidy defeated in Louisiana GOP primary; 2 conservatives advance to runoff