Lessons for the Democrats from Latino cities

WITH THE PRESIDENTIAL election still fresh and the scope of a second Trump administration beginning to take shape, politicians, pollsters, and pundits are looking for answers. In Democratic postmortems, many have zeroed in on the shift among Latino voters toward President-elect Donald Trump.

Leaders in heavily Latino cities, which voted for Vice President Kamala Harris but have been peeling away from the Democrats over the last half decade, are split between trying to boost their party’s chances while grappling with the reality that their constituents are signaling unease with the establishment.

“My emotions are all over the place,” Holyoke Mayor Joshua Garcia said on The Codcast , just days after the election. “I feel like it’s a combination of both surprising and unsurprising. I say that because I was very surprised when Trump got elected to begin with, and I didn’t see that coming at all. And that just contributed to the idea that you just never know how elections are gonna turn out, no matter how much we think and feel something’s in the bag.”

The movement of Latino communities away from the Democratic Party has been years in the making, even before inflation began rising […]

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