Fox's Martha MacCallum claims Hispanic voters have “just become Americans” by embracing the GOP
MacCallum: “But I think that Hispanic voters like all of the great immigrant groups that came before them, at some point you just become Americans and you care about the things that all Americans care about.”
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Citation From the November 6, 2022, edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends Sunday
RACHEL CAMPOS-DUFFY (CO-HOST): I felt like Obama was rusty too. I wasn't very impressed with his, his performance on the trail either. But let's look at this because Hispanics are going to be a very important swing vote in this election in many states. And The Atlantic wrote a very great article. I thought it was very fascinating, had some people actually that we've had on the show featured in this very long piece talking about why Democrats are losing Hispanic voters. I want to give you a little bit from that piece. It says, "Hispanics have begun abandoning the Democrat party, defying generations of political patterns. The very thing that breathed life into the Democrat party 20 years ago. The focus on identity and inclusion is making it more popular with white voters and less popular with Hispanic voters." Martha.
MARTHA MACCALLUM (FOX NEWS ANCHOR): You know, this is not something that has happened overnight. This has been happening over the course of the last 10, 12 years. And we've been watching the Hispanic numbers move with every election. And the Black voter numbers have moved with every election as well. It's just a small piece that has grown over time. You know, I think -- you know, you talk about this all the time, Rachel. But I think that Hispanic voters like all of the great immigrant groups that came before them, at some point you just become Americans and you care about the things that all Americans care about. We don't talk about Irish voters and Italian voters anymore, right? So we're now living in a time when Hispanic voters are just like every other voter. They care about the same things. They care about safety, they care about education, they care about the economy. So when you're talking to them as if they're always going to be on your side and they're always going to care about one thing, which is letting everybody come across the border, you're losing them.
CAMPOS-DUFFY: Yeah, they're working class voters and I think that the divide, I think the Democrat party keeps talking in these racial terms and I think it's really about class and working class people. I think that's where their values are working class values and I think they see so many of the elite as an assault on them.
MACCALLUM: It's becoming a party of more progressive and wealthy voters.
CAMPOS-DUFFY: That's right.
MACCALLUM: That's a big, big shift. We see these shifts in American politics. They happen every 20, every 30 years and they're big when they happen and that's one of the story lines that we're going to watch really closely to see if it does bear out when we actually see the numbers on Tuesday night.