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Former President Donald Trump made a stop in Miami as the keynote speaker for a Republican-Hispanic leadership conference. He spoke for about an hour on everything from the election that he lost to the recent FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago. Other major points he brought up regarded public safety, addressing policing and border patrol as well as the economy and small businesses concerning the recent FBI raid on Mar-A-Lago.
We've done nothing wrong. They are targeting me because they want to silence me, silence you, and silence our amazing Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement. There's never been a movement like this in the history of our country, not even close to the weaponized Department of Justice and the politicized FBI, which are spending millions and millions of dollars.
The former president also went on to claim that he did more for the Latino population than any other president.
Former President Donald Trump was speaking in Miami yesterday at the Hispanic leadership conference in Florida. The latest census shows the Latino population has grown to 62.1 million in 2020. The number of Latinos registering to vote and heading to the polls is also going down.
Former President Donald Trump was warmly welcomed by a group of conservative Latino leaders, who referred to him as the first Latino president in US history, and we also heard from the CEO of Goya Foods, who told the FBI to introduce him as God, the greatest president of all time.
The crowd is supportive of America's first policies and the idea of him running for president again. We have some numbers for the share of the Latino vote in 2016 and 2020. It didn't just increase, it increased dramatically. Is that trajectory continuing? If the former president ran again, without an increase? Is that a continuing trend or one that stopped in 2020?
We saw an increase from 2016 to 2020 here in Florida. He got around 34% of the Latino vote (45%), which is a record turnout of Latino voters for a Republican candidate. If you look at voter registration numbers in the state of Florida, Republicans are ahead by a comfortable margin. I think the last number was about 112,000 more Republican voters. It will be interesting in November to see how some of those Republican candidates perform in districts like 25. In the largest city in that district, in 2016, President Donald Trump lost 40%. In 2020, he won that city by 2%. When you consider Clinton's comfortable margin in 2016, this is an incredible turnaround.
There are so many big state and federal elections this year in Florida. Is this the primary focus of candidates whenever they address this block of voters? They are making a difference not just in the provisional states that California has but in the Latino vote in Virginia, Pennsylvania, and other states like Nevada. It might not be the largest portion of the electorate, but that three or 4% in a close election like we saw in 2020 makes a big difference.
That's why more candidates are engaging with the Latino community because one of the most unfounded myths about Latino voters is that they are not enthusiastic about the political process. I think candidates from both parties are starting to realize they will be engaged to the extent that the process engages with them. It's worth noting.
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