Why More Hispanics Voted for Trump in 2020

Published: Nov. 5, 2020, 8 a.m.

President Donald Trump did historically well in terms of the Hispanic vote.\xa0 In both Texas and Florida, the Republican nominee did well among Hispanics.\xa0Per NBC\xa0News, \u201c55 percent of\xa0Florida\u2019s Cuban-American vote went to Trump, according to NBC News exit polls, while 30 percent of Puerto Ricans and 48 percent of 'other Latinos' backed Trump.\u201d\xa0Nationally, he went from 28 percent among Hispanics to 32 percent.\nWhat happened here? Were particular issues at stake in the 2020 election affected the Hispanic community\u2019s votes? What about Trump's immigration policies? And lastly, is there even a Hispanic voting bloc--or should we look at these voters in a different way?\nMike Gonzalez, a senior fellow in the Douglas and Sarah Allison Center for Foreign Policy at The Heritage Foundation, joins The Daily Signal Podcast to discuss all this and more.\xa0\n Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.