Guerrero: The rise of the MAGA Latino isn’t real, but it could be in 2024, the year the first Asian-American president is elected
Barack Obama is America’s first biracial president.
The Democratic nominee for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, is the only presidential candidate who can claim to be a first-generation Chinese American.
It is also true that white Anglo Saxon Protestants are the biggest voting block in the US, and it is also safe to say that Asian Americans are now America’s most diverse voters.
Even more so when we look at the numbers: Hispanics, Asians and blacks are in fact the fastest-growing minority populations in the US.
Barack Obama is America’s first biracial president.The Democratic nominee for the presidency, Hillary Clinton, is the only presidential candidate who can claim to be a first-generation Chinese American.It is also true that white Anglo Saxon Protestants are the biggest voting block in the US, and it is also safe to say that Asian Americans are now America’s most diverse voters.Even more so when we look at the numbers: Hispanics, Asians and blacks are in fact the fastest-growing minority populations in the US.
The Latino vote is just one of many demographic trends that will shape the election.
According to Pew Hispanic Trends, there are now more Hispanics in the US than there are Cubans. And there were more Hispanics in 2007 than there were Japanese Americans in 1942 and more Latinos in 2007 than there were Jews in 1937.
The Asian American vote is another thing altogether. There are now more Asian Americans in the world than there ever were Chinese Americans.
The numbers are staggering: there are now 669,000 Asian American and Pacific Islanders in America, up from 669,000 in 2000.
The Asian vote is also growing at a rapid pace nationwide. In the last decade, it has skyrocketed from 11 percent of the electorate to 36 percent; the growth rate in Hawaii was nearly three times as high.
If Donald Trump is to win the presidency, he will need to expand his Latino vote and improve his numbers among Asian voters.
The growing Latino vote would be a boon for the anti-establishment candidate, but he won’t be well-served by an Asian voter base given the fact that Donald Trump is so anti-immigrant that he