Color-Coded: Chuck Todd Says Dems Warned Identity Politics Would Cost Latino Votes Two Years Ago

Posted • December 27, 2024: It appears Democrats were warned that focusing on identity politics would lose the party Latino voters in the 2024 presidential election. Chuck Todd says a two-year old memo laid out the details, but was ignored. -- Chuck Todd discloses a 2022 Biden polling memo that warned about the Democrats losing the Hispanic vote, because Biden Harris targeted them as a 'Community of color' whereas Trump targeted them as 'working class': Chuck Todd: "My favorite part about post-election is the losing side suddenly shares memos that they never would have shared with you. A strategist for a Biden super-PAC circa 2022 sent me a polling memo that he had sent to the campaign. And it was having to do with the Latino vote. Hispanics believed in a strong presidency. 'You want to see a democracy crumbling. Let me introduce you to Venezuela.'

Trump may make more inroads here than you think. And then the other aspect of Latino voters is that the Trump campaign targeted them on the same issues they were targeting working class white voters. And the Harris campaign target them as a community of color. Class is the big divide in American politics, not identity." If nothing else I hope this is the end of 'Latinx'. -- It’s common sense that people want to be treated as individuals, not categorized by race. Being common sense, it’s easy to see how this simple truth has alluded Democrats. “Class is the big divide in American politics, not identity”. People who do things other than politics for a living recognized this long ago, and were called racist for suggesting as much. Either the experts will start listening, or they’ll keep losing elections. I think it's a bit early to believe that Democrats have changed their approach to messaging based on one memo that the democrats soundly ignored.

People want to be judged by who they are as individuals and not by their race and stereotyped by identity. S H O C K E R ! ! ! ! Imagine just now coming to this conclusion. Democrats continue to blame their messaging game, not their actual message. My favorite part about these post election autopsies is they don't think they have to change they way they govern, just the lies they tell voters to get into power. (…)

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