President Donald Trump, right, walks on stage before delivering remarks during a Latinos For Trump campaign event at the Trump National Doral Miami resort in Doral, Florida, Sept. 25, 2020. (CNS/Reuters/Tom Brenner)
Editor s note: This week, NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters looks at the Latino vote in the 2020 election and what it portends for the future of American politics. Read Part 2 here.
Election Day 2020 began with the polls pointing to a dominant victory for Joe Biden and the Democrats. Biden was leading in Florida and barely trailing President Donal Trump in Texas. Texas! By 11 p.m., of course, both states were decisively in the Trump column, and the election was so close, The Associated Press did not call it until the following Saturday.
Ida B. Wells Fellows
, our Southern Fellow, is a North Carolina-based movement journalist with more than 10 years of experience reporting on immigration, reproductive injustice, LGBTQ+ issues, and gender-based violence. She is currently a staff reporter leading Prism s coverage of gender justice. Previously, she was a senior reporter covering immigration at Rewire.News, the leading online publication devoted to evidence-based reporting on reproductive and sexual health, rights, and justice. Her work has appeared in the New York Review of Books, NPR, The Nation, Playboy, and a variety of other publications. Recently, she was a mentor in the Freedomways Fellowship Program as part of Press On, a Southern journalism collective that strengthens and expands the practice of journalism in service of liberation. She will be reporting on immigrant workers and COVID-19.
Gun violence is the long-neglected epidemic ravaging America sfltimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from sfltimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Politico, October 19, 2020].
Even if those latter data are Professor Richter’s source, post-election figures were murkier. NBC News found that non-Cuban Hispanics were split down the middle on Trump on Election Day [
Yet your typical Con Inc. Cuck I’m looking at you, Little Marco agitates for more Venezuelan immigration on the assumption that it represents a new Republican base.
Again, I urge caution. A more Republican first wave of immigrants does not guarantee that their offspring, or subsequent waves of migrants, will vote the same way. Regression to the mean sets in. However conservative the first wave think Cubans running from the communist tyrant Castro successor waves and their children might not be as conservative. They also will be rowdier and bring tons of social baggage. The classic example: the Marielitos. Cubans fleeing Castro in 1959 were from Cuba’s white middle and upper class, the convicts and mental patients dumped by Castro in 1980 were from Cuba’s lowes
A year to turn the page
The year 2020 has been humbling in the face of nature. The coronavirus pandemic rattled the earth and revealed just how unstable the ground beneath us was. For journalists, the avalanche of life-or-death news crashed into an industry already beset by acute financial strain, the warping effects of disinformation, and long-standing inequity. In the print pages of the
Columbia Journalism Review, we’ve looked at a media ecosystem confronting the realities of our distressed planet and the people who inhabit it.
First, in the spring, was the climate issue. E. Tammy Kim turned her attention to the