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Out a few days with computer issues, now all resolved. A news item seen while down, referenced Obama’s supposedly telling fellow Democrats during the 2020 presidential primaries, “Don’t underestimate Joe's ability to f... things up.” The issue is of interest now because while Latinos keep pouring over the border, as their population increases they keep becoming more successful and so do their numbers in the Republican size of the vote.

The “National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials (NALEO) Educational Fund released its 2022 Latino Vote Projections, “offering a comprehensive analysis of expected Latino voter turnout both nationwide and within key battleground states during this year’s midterm elections. According to the projections, Latinos will once again play a decisive role in the 2022 midterm elections, closely mirroring 2018’s historic turnout numbers, with projected increases in the key battleground states of Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada.”

 At least 11.6 million Latinos will cast ballots in 2022, a 71.4 percent increase in the number of Latino voters from 2014.

Further noted by Nicole Narea @https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics: “It was clear after the election that Trump had made gains among Latino voters in places like Florida’s Miami-Dade County and Texas’s Rio Grande Valley. The newest and most detailed data yet shows that the trend was nationwide. According to a recent report by the Democratic data firm Catalist, the number of Latinos who cast votes increased by 31 percent from 2016 to 2020, accounting for a 10th of the electorate. A comfortable majority of Latinos — an estimated 61 percent — supported President Joe Biden, but there was about an 8 percentage-point swing toward Trump, based on data on votes cast for either the Democratic or Republican nominees in 2016 and 2020.”

Back on 6/30/21,Politico’s Steven Shepard wrote: “But Biden only won Hispanic voters by 21 points, 59 percent to 38 percent, down significantly from Clinton’s 38-point advantage, 66 percent to 28 percent. There was a slight gender gap — Biden won Hispanic men by 17 and Hispanic women by 24 — but Trump surged broadly among Hispanics, especially among Hispanic voters without a college degree. 

 

“Another interesting point, huge spikes in turnout for the 2018 midterms and 2020 presidential elections also mean that both parties brought new voters into the fold. Each candidate benefited from new voters in 2020, with Biden winning the vast majority of younger, new voters — but Trump cleaning up with new voters over age 30.”

 

What this shows regards not only the vote itself, but a statistic common to almost every new voter. Once these individuals mature successfully with careers, families and financial obligations, they tend to vote Republican as well.

On CNN, February 14, 2022, Justin Guest said, ”However, it's not hard to understand the recent turn toward Democrats. Since 2001, Republican political campaigns have been defined by cultural debates over immigration, race and Islam. But unexpectedly, this may be appealing to some Latinos.

Texas State Representative Ryan Guillen, a Democrat from the Rio Grande Valley, recently stepped across the political aisle to join the Republican Party last November. "Something is happening in South Texas, and many of us are waking up to the fact that the values of those in Washington, DC, are not our values, not the values of most Texans," Guillen told reporters. "The ideology of defunding the police, of destroying the oil and gas industry and the chaos at our border is disastrous for those of us who live here in South Texas."

 Angel Figueroa, a Democrat and former city councilor in Pennsylvania who recently supported a Republican campaign, told The Wall Street Journal, "By our culture, we overwhelmingly are Catholic. Overwhelmingly, we are pro-life. People by far, and specifically Puerto Ricans, are more in line with Republican values."

"In the 2020 election, Donald Trump won 38% of the Latino vote -- the highest percentage for a Republican since George W. Bush won 44% in 2004. And after giving Democratic House candidates more than 60% of their vote in 2020, Latinos are moving still further to the right: A recent poll by the Wall Street Journal found that Latino voters are evenly split between the two parties in their 2022 choices for Congress, with 22% still undecided.

“Hispanic eligible voters accounted for 39% of the overall increase of the nation's eligible voting population since 2000, the largest contributors of any ethnic or racial group to the electorate. A decline in their support is anxiety-inducing news for Democrats facing midterm elections this year.”

So, here we have evidence of another significant Biden incapability to think. Basing his agenda primarily on overturning everything Trump did and very little more, he failed to realize that inviting all illegal aliens to enter the nation freely gives those aliens opportunity as well. That means they have as much chance to succeed as anybody else. And therefore, as they become more successful, their tendency will be to vote Republican like others do now.

Thus, in actuality over the long range, by maintaining his open border policy Biden’s growing his party’s opposition. Which in turn makes Obama absolutely correct about Biden’s capability to “f--- things up."

That’s it for today folks.

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