Whit Ayres’ comments in NOTUS regarding Hispanic voters and immigration enforcement:
“To the extent that ICE is targeting people beyond those who have committed crimes, it’s going to create significant pushback from the Hispanics who voted for Donald Trump, as well as other Americans,” said Whit Ayres, a Republican pollster.
Ayres emphasized that he thought Democrats weren’t in a great position with Latino voters, either. But he added that the danger for the GOP was that many Latino voters were never hardcore Trump enthusiasts but swing voters who backed him because of concerns about the economy and the Democratic Party’s position on social issues.
“They were swing voters,” Ayres said. “And by definition, they’re not hardcore anything.”
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