Opinion | Why Biden’s Hispanic support has collapsed – By Adam Rodriguez (New York Post) / May 1, 2022
Hispanics are America’s largest minority voting bloc. In 2020, President Joe Biden received 61% of our vote, support that’s indisputably plummeted. One recent poll shows the president’s approval rating among Hispanics is an abysmal 26%, and an astonishing 41% “disapprove strongly” of his performance. There are several reasons his Hispanic support has eroded.
COVID: Hispanics, predominantly blue-collar workers who perform a large share of essential jobs that can’t be done remotely, were disproportionately slammed by COVID’s economic and social fallout. Large cities, which have higher concentrations of Hispanics, had stricter quarantine requirements and kept schools closed the longest. These policies, which continued into the Biden presidency, caused Hispanics significant hardships, including an increased educational disparity for their children.
THE ECONOMY: Fair or not, the American electorate places the economic “buck” with the president. We are experiencing soaring inflation, with the price of groceries, gas and other goods skyrocketing. Because Hispanics are mostly working-class people, these price hikes hit them especially hard. Although several factors cause inflation, it began to spike in early 2021, when Biden signed the massive $1.9 trillion stimulus bill. His assessment of inflation in 2021 as “temporary” was very wrong. And last week, we learned that the economy contracted 1.4% in the first quarter of 2022. This has caused a tremendous blow to the president’s credibility on the economy.
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