Exclusive — Marco Rubio: Shift in Hispanic Vote Toward GOP Under Trump 'Permanent' Unless Republicans Revert to Pre-Trump Ways
Matthew Boyle
7 Jun 2021
Exclusive -- Rubio: Hispanic Shift Toward GOP and Trump May Be 'Permanent'
MIAMI, Florida — Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) told Breitbart News he believes
a profound shift seen in the 2020 election in the Hispanic community toward Republicans and away from Democrats will
continue to intensify as long as the GOP sticks to what former President Donald Trump taught the party.
"These are communities made up of people who value common sense wisdom and working class values," Rubio said when asked
why Hispanic voters in Miami swung significantly Trump's and Republicans' way in 2020, a trend also seen in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
"That's what their life is built on. Those are two things the left has abandoned. You hear lots of people talk about whether it's socialism. Socialism is a part of it. Socialism is a part of the common sense part of it. In their mind, if I were to step in the shoes of someone who maybe voted for Obama in 2012, then voted for Donald Trump in 2020, they would say to you, 'Look, I came from a socialist country. I fled it. Why the hell would we do that here?' It makes no sense to them. So you see Democrats stand up and say, 'I'm not a socialist,' and no you're not. You don't brand yourself as a socialist, but you support socialist things, and you support socialist leaders and socialist politics. It just makes no sense to them."
Rubio added that this shift will be "permanent" as long as Republicans remain focused on common sense values that Trump championed for the GOP moving forward. He noted that most people in the Hispanic community do not spend all day on Twitter following establishment media figures' orders, but, instead, "they just live life based on common sense."
"The left has abandoned that," Rubio said.
"I think President Trump was doing a lot of things based on common sense. In their mind, it made all the sense in the world. They don't understand why their side is against it. And then working class values. Most of these people here don't care what you do with your life. They don't want to tell you how to live your life, who to marry, who to love, and so forth—but you're asking them to abandon three or four thousand years of accumulated human wisdom because a handful of crazy professors have convinced people everything we knew was true is no longer true on things like gender, on this or that. These guys just got turned off by all that, and I think it accelerated through the summer on the pandemic and the rioting and all of that
. I think that shift is permanent unless we as Republicans go back to being who we used to be—then we give these people no political home."....