President Donald Trump flipped several historically Democratic strongholds along the Rio Grande in 2024. Statewide, he won an estimated 55% of Hispanic vote in Texas.
Now, Senate candidate James Talarico thinks he can win back a significant number of those votes, but Rev. Sam Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference says the Democrat's heretical Christianity is standing in the way.
"It would require the Hispanic vote, which is primarily Christian, to embrace woke, cancel culture, morally relativistic, ambiguous, social, quasi-communist Christianity," he explains.
He acknowledges, though, that things have gone south for the president since 2024, mainly because of his deportation policies, primarily in the area of deporting people who have been in the states for 20-30 years.
"[They] are good, hardworking individuals who did come here illegally, should not have come here illegally, but are now part of the community and so forth," Rodriguez notes. "Is there some angst and consternation? Yes."
Four months out from the midterms, the president has lost a little less than 10% of his Hispanic support, so Rodriguez does not expect Republicans to enjoy the same support from that demographic that they saw in 2024.
"We're looking at some single digit drops," he tells AFN. "I'm not looking into double digits."
He says if the president would go back to his last campaign promises like letting the so-called "Dreamers" stay and focusing on dangerous criminal illegals, then he could start winning back some of the support.
But even if he does not, Rodriguez says the Democratic Party is doing itself no favors with Hispanic voters.
"The good news is that the hard Left is so drunk on socialism and communism and relativism that it's serving as a deterrent," he concludes. "So, things could be worse."
