Pollster Frank Luntz on Monday refuted the theory that “misinformation and disinformation” drove Hispanic male voters to President-elect Donald Trump in November.
CNN senior data reporter Harry Enten expressed amazement on Wednesday at Trump winning a majority of Hispanic male votes nationwide in his race against Vice President Kamala Harris. When CNN anchor Boris Sanchez asked Luntz on “CNN News Central” what he thinks of the “argument from some Democrats” that “misinformation and disinformation” significantly influenced Hispanic men to vote for Trump, the pollster dismissed the theory as unfounded.
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“I don’t accept that. And I recognize that there was some of that online and it’s a challenge we’re going to face and it’s going to get worse as we move further and further into the AI age,” Luntz said. “But in the end, the Latino voters, despite what had happened in Madison Square Garden, despite that horrific joke about Puerto Rico, Trump still did better than any Republican ever among the Latino vote. To me, that’s the most significant story of the campaign.”
“The left tried to demonize him and tried to focus on this language and in the end, they said, ‘You know what, there’s more for Trump. There’s more for us in Trump than there is in Harris.’ And critically, it was about prices and it was about immigration,” he continued. “And what people don’t understand is the Latino population who’s here and voting, they don’t like illegal immigration. They think that it makes them look bad. They want to be judged on their own merits and they came here the right way and they don’t like the people who are trying to come here the wrong way.”
“The View” co-host Sunny Hostin on Thursday claimed that Latinos voted against Harris due to “misogyny.” However, fellow co-host Alyssa Farah Griffin asserted they voted based on the economy and the border crisis, noting that Trump won the majority of the votes in Starr County in Texas, which was 97% Hispanic and voted for Democrats since 1896, according to the New York Post.
About 40% of Hispanic voters listed the economy as their primary issue, while roughly 70% of them characterized the current state of the economy as either “not so good” or “poor,” according to an exit poll by Edison Research.
Enten on Friday also expressed shock about Trump’s gains with young voters and black voters.
“Holy Toledo. It’s just like, oh my goodness gracious. These are the types of groups that you would never have thought that Donald Trump would’ve gained so much support among eight years ago when he first won against Hillary Clinton,” the data reporter asserted. “Trump’s was the best GOP showing among 18- to 29-year-olds in 20 years. You have to go all the way back to 2004. How about among black voters? The best performance for a Republican candidate for president in 48 years since Gerald Ford back in 1976.”
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