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This is some bullshit, on several levels.
White people voted 42%Harris, 57%Trump.
Hispanics voted 51% Harris, 46% Trump.
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2024 Does that look like a hispanic voting problem or a white problem?
Secondly, It gets complicated fast and I dont think can be easily reduced to "swung hard right". The "latino" vote is diverse and encompasses a lot of peoples: Mexico, central, south America, and Cuba (All pretty different folks with different political pressures, history, and biases) Immigration, economic opportunity, skepticism of the democratic party caring about them, anger about gaza and disapproval of Bidens justice policies broadly, and a general rejection of the economic status quo all factored in. By how much? Hard to get great polling data on that. But Biden and then Harris's message was literally that "nothing will fundamentally change", at a time when his approval rates were very low.
This whole comment thread is angry people shitting on Latinos as if they were the problem instead of white voters.