The Dispatch editor-in-chief Jonah Goldberg said Tuesday on CNN that Democrats may do poorly among Hispanic voters because they are stuck in an “identity politics” bubble.
Republicans nationwide are polling well among Hispanic voters, with a recent Quinnipiac University poll finding Republicans have 46% of Hispanic support amongst registered voters while Democrats have 42%. Inflation and crime remain a top priority for Hispanic voters as well, an Ipsos and Axios poll found.
Goldberg said although Republicans are “very late” to canvass for Hispanic voters, Democrats have still driven “them into the Republican Party.” (RELATED: ‘Hispanic Voters Are Behaving Like Working Class Whites’: NBC Reporter Says GOP Poised For Big Wins In Florida)
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“I think the way that Democrats talk to Hispanics is one of the reasons why they’re driving them into the Republican Party. There was some fantastic polling on the phrase ‘Latinx,’ no Hispanics use it. A lot find it insulting and condescending, they prefer things like Mexican American or Cuban American or just American or Hispanic or Latino or whatever, but it’s very much sort of – there is a very online sort of bubble that the Democratic Party listens to way too much that affects all of its messaging on everything from transgender and crime and identity politics that I think turns off a lot of rural non college-educated voters,” Goldberg said.
Other Democrats have been outspoken against the term “Latinx,” with CNN’s Van Jones saying in June that using strange rhetoric does not appeal to working class voters.
“Those people talk funny,” Jones said. “I’ve never met a LatinX, I’ve never met a BIPOC … There’s this weird stuff all these highly educated people say. It’s bizarre, nobody talks that way at the barbershop, the nail salon, the grocery store, the community center. But that’ how we talk now so that’s weird.”
Democratic New York Rep. Ritchie Torres pushed back against the term as well in May, saying no one uses the term “LatinX.”