5 Reasons Latinos Won’t Vote for Ted Cruz

Blue Natio Review ^ | March 24, 2015 | John Paul Brammer

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Liberals across the country rejoiced today as Ted Cruz announced that he is officially running for president, thus ensuring a plentiful gaffe harvest for progressive writers like myself to feed upon for months.

The GOP has pretty much nothing to gain from Cruz’s decision to throw his hat in the ring. In fact, if anything, it will probably hurt them, as Cruz will only serve to solidify the idea that Republicans are anti-women, anti-LGBT, and anti-immigrant.

Yes, Ted Cruz, the son of an immigrant from Cuba, is anti-immigrant.

As a Latino, I can tell you right now that Latinos won’t be lining up to vote for Ted Cruz just because of his last name or his heritage. Latino voters look at the issues, and judging by Cruz’s record, he’s going to have a hard time winning the community over.

Here are five reasons why Latino’s would never vote for him:

1. He is Anti-Immigrant

Ted Cruz has particularly harsh views on immigration. He rose to power in Texas on a staunch opponent of “amnesty” policies. It would seem that having an immigrant father hasn’t influenced Cruz’s treatment of other immigrants. Maybe that’s why in his 2012 senate race in Texas, Latinos overwhelmingly voted for his opponent.

2. He Doesn’t Believe in Climate Change

Latinos see themselves as committed to the protection of the environment. A 2013 poll found that 76 percent of Latinos agree that the planet is heating up, 14 percent higher than whites. Latino communities have also been forced out of their homes due to fracking. Cruz’s belief that science doesn’t support the theory of global warming will be a tough sell to Latinos.

3.. He is Anti-Obamacare

In 2010, nearly one in three uninsured people in the United States was Hispanic or Latino. Employer-based insurance is the most common form of insurance for Latinos to have, but they are far less likely to have it than their non-Latino peers. Ted Cruz will do everything he can to repeal Obamacare, which offers benefits for Latinos.

4. He is Bad for Education

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) has done amazing things for Latino students. It has given them a chance at a better future. Since DACA, more Latino parents believe their children will get an education past high school. Ted Cruz would put an end to that.

5. He is Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz has made it clear he doesn’t plan on reaching out to the Latino community. His track record speaks to that, and a cursory glance at his political career reveals that he is, to put it delicately, off his rocker.

So, no, Latinos will not be voting for Ted Cruz.

Nor should anyone else.

John Paul Brammer is a Contributing Editor at BNR. His writing on LGBT and Latino issues has appeared in The Advocate and Huffington Post. Find him on twitter.

[MrB]

Cuz they “gibsmedats”!

[Dead Corpse]

Too bad for them that facts are stubborn things.

99% of the people on this planet can “vote’ that the Earth is flat. This will matter not one whit to the FACT that our planet is anything but flat...

[Ann de IL]

A lot of my family is Hispanic. And they are anti-illegal immigration, even the ones who voted dem in past years. Many Hispanics see the very real danger of the Obama immigration policies. And they are the ones who are posting on Facebook against it, and working hard to alert others in their communities.

[tommix2]

If Cruz is eligible,then he is my first choice. I just want to keep the constitution.

[trisham]

Good. Anyone who is as ignorant as you are about this issue shouldn’t vote.

[Zionist Conspirator]

1)Latinos are pro-homosexual.
2)Latinos are pro-abortion.
3)Latinos want their energy bills to go through the freaking roof.
4)Latinos subscribe to eighteenth century European enlightenment rationalism and nineteenth century European materialism. And most importantly:
5)As one can tell by their name, Latinos are not Europeans who speak a European language, but indigenous pipples whose native Spanish was spoken by the ancient pre-historic Roman Catholic civilizations that flourished here for thousands of years before Billy Bob Columbus came over in his three double-wides.

Is that about it?

[Dead Corpse]

I just want to keep the constitution.

Amen to that. Sorry for jumping on you.

We've lost entirely too much of the Constitution already. I feel, from looking at Ted's record and not just his stump speeches, that Cruz is one of those who would do his damnedest to repeal the Federal leviathan and move us back towards a truly Constitutional Republic again.

Think of him as an FDR in reverse. A bit of Patrick Henry with some Thomas Jefferson tossed in.

He's legal to run and has Principles I can live with. As one of FR's long time "conservatarians", I don't say this lightly.

Barring someone better jumping, Ted's the real deal and the horse I could hitch a cart to.

[ek_hornbeck]

Another member (or supporter) of La Raza wrote an anti-Cruz hit piece in USA today titled "Cruz not always so sympathetic to immigrants." From the article:

From barring undocumented immigrants from ever becoming U.S. citizens to remaking our immigration system into one that welcomes mostly university-trained foreigners, Cruz has made clear that he celebrates only a certain kind of immigrant

In other words, by "certain kind of immigrant," Cruz prefers those who entered the country legally to those who broke our laws and entered illegally, and he prefers those who can contribute to our prosperity rather than those who add poverty and crime. How radical and extreme!

[ronnie raygun]

he is against the latinos with thier hands out

[GeronL]

Texas hispanic voters do vote for real conservatives, about 40% anyways