In 2006, I predicted that Latinos would surpass Blacks as America’s most influential minority electorate. Twenty years later, the New York Times is catching up. Republicans mistook Trump’s 2024 Latino gains for a lasting realignment. Now his ICE crackdown is fueling anger, fear, and political backlash.
iPINIONS explains why Latino swing voters could expose that Republican miscalculation and reshape American politics for years to come.
Read my full take on Substack:
https://ipinionsdaily.substack.com/p/latinos-have-supplanted-blacks-as
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