No, it wasn’t "the Economy, stupid." Speaking as a Black man born into a Spanish-speaking family, let me tell you what last week’s election was really about.
It was about millions of men — many with my Latino immigrant background, some with my skin color — who don’t want any woman, especially a woman of color, in the White House.
Trump won 55 percent of Latino men nationally. He won 46 percent of all Latino voters, a 14 percent jump over his support against President Biden in 2020. That was the highest for any Republican presidential candidate in five decades.
And the key was his success with Latino men. Trump’s support from Latino men jumped by nearly 20 percentage points, from 36 percent in 2020 when he ran against Biden, a white man.
We should have seen it coming. Looking back, in 2016, most Hispanic men voted for someone other than Hillary Clinton when she lost to Trump.
In Trump’s triumph over Clinton, Latino men voted for Trump or third-party candidates over Clinton by 48 to 45 percent, according to Pew Research.
This year, as the result of Latino male voting, Vice President Kamala Harris claimed 52 percent of the total Latino vote, tied for the worst performance among Latinos for a Democrat since John Kerry in 2004.
Only 38 percent of Latino women voted for Trump, about 8........