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Dulcinea

(10,563 posts)
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 07:32 AM Yesterday

Texas Hispanics swung hard to Trump. A new poll shows they're furious at his deportations.

(Politico) Benny Melendez voted for President Donald Trump in 2024. But since Trump returned to the White House, it has been increasingly difficult for Melendez to run his small construction company in south Texas. He says immigration officers have detained workers at his job sites and while driving his company trucks. Since the beginning of 2025, more than 10 of those workers have been deported.

The chaos of the past year-and-a-half has convinced Melendez to abandon his support for Trump and Republicans, and instead back the Democrat in this year's U.S. Senate election, state Rep. James Talarico.

"How can we continue voting for someone that is targeting our community?" Melendez said. "There's no way possible we're going to support that. No way."

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/texas-hispanics-swung-hard-trump-180000799.html

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Texas Hispanics swung hard to Trump. A new poll shows they're furious at his deportations. (Original Post) Dulcinea Yesterday OP
Paying attention now? Good!! hatrack Yesterday #1
And what did you think Trump would do, Bennie? Chasstev365 Yesterday #2
Why did they think he would do anything else? Ritabert Yesterday #3
" Why did they think he'd exempt them?" Ray Bruns Yesterday #5
FAFO in action. Ritabert Yesterday #6
Pendejos LuvLoogie Yesterday #4
Benny mgardener 23 hrs ago #7
My Latine friend says these were men who REFUSED to vote for a woman in 2024 CousinIT 23 hrs ago #8
He didn't notice the leopards the first time around? Ocelot II 23 hrs ago #9
One enchilada short of a combination plate. Wonder Why 22 hrs ago #10
I am happy to see this LetMyPeopleVote 22 hrs ago #11

Chasstev365

(8,552 posts)
2. And what did you think Trump would do, Bennie?
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 07:47 AM
Yesterday

I have little patience for people who voted for Trump and are shocked by what he has done in just his first year of his second term. Your warning was in 2016 when candidate Trump said. "THEY'RE" drug dealers and rapist. Couple that will his view on migrants, and you should have known better.

So Bennie and others like Bennie: here is what you can about it. Get everyone you know to show up on election day and vote for the DEMOCRATIC! PARTY!

There is a reason Republicans say" Democrat Party" instead Democratic Party: the don't believe in democracy.

Ritabert

(2,928 posts)
3. Why did they think he would do anything else?
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 08:00 AM
Yesterday

He ran on stopping the influx of migrants. Why did they think he'd exempt them? He doesn't care about anybody.

Ray Bruns

(7,085 posts)
5. " Why did they think he'd exempt them?"
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 08:32 AM
Yesterday

1. That’s exactly what they thought.
2. Now they are learning what racism is all about.

mgardener

(2,454 posts)
7. Benny
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 08:42 AM
23 hrs ago

Is not the sharpest tool in the drawer.

He got what he voted for.

Unfortunately, so did the rest of us.

CousinIT

(12,942 posts)
8. My Latine friend says these were men who REFUSED to vote for a woman in 2024
Mon Jul 13, 2026, 09:15 AM
23 hrs ago

Latino men, she says, are loath to vote for a woman, so they mostly went to Trump in 2024.

I don't know whether it's true or not, but she would know better than me.

It looks like a LOT of men would vote for a pile of shit before they'd vote for any woman. And many women would, too.

So they got the pile of shit they voted for. Their misogyny cost them.

Well DUH.

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