..but at work yesterday a Hispanic Gent who has like me survived all the layoffs came up to me and suddenly volunteered in broken English: “Trump no good, Biden no good I vote Kennedy he good.”
Now I’m figuring that he knows I did some reporting so that’s why he decided to just volunteer this so I dug a little deeper with him and found that of four voters in his family 3 were with Kennedy and one with Trump, but not a single one with Joe Biden.
I have talked to a lot of people at work, and a lot whose first language is Spanish. Four years ago I could find a mix of voters, some for Trump some for Biden. So far I have not found a single person who has a good thing to say about Biden. There are still the folks who like Trump and the folks who don’t but so far those who don’t all seem in the Kennedy camp.
Now this isn’t scientific but I think the Dems made a big mistake booting him from their primary.
Again this might mean nothing but that’s what I’m hearing at work at least so far.
Update: Talked to Jose again and asked him if he knows anyone who likes Biden, he answered: “Biden no good, last time I vote for him, now Bah!”
Then I approached another Hispanic fellow at work younger than Jose (who is mid 60’s) a fellow in his late 20’s early 30’s who also speaks fluent English. I’ve heard him talk politics before and asked him: “Of the people you’ve talked to in Spanish here, does anyone support Joe Biden?” He could not name one, some were for Trump others not but not a one had a good word for Biden.
Now these folks don’t run in white liberal circles so they don’t have to worry about being excluded or shunned if they are not sufficiently in the tank for old Joe and I STRONGLY suspect that this is being repeated in the working class non-white communities.
If my gut is right and this is true, this is going to be a whopper.
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