Democratic Primaries
In reply to the discussion: Wonder why Latinx voters voted so differently in AZ than NV... [View all]BS has an exceptional CAUCUS staff.
When it comes to primaries, not so much. Latinx did NOT increase their vote for BS to any significant degree in Texas, for instance. He barely got 800 more votes in Hidalgo county than he did in 2016, and that increase comes more from population growth than anything else. And Hidalgo county has been a monster of population growth, since the early 1990s.
To further emphasize that his Latinx vote "enthusiasm" is an illusion, BS won only two counties by an outright majority: Sterling and Hansford. Guess how many votes they cast in the D primary? Sterling: 24. Hansford: 23. That's it. In every other county he "won," he didn't get a majority, and in nearly all of them, the combination of Bloomberg + Biden votes swamped his numbers. I know there were a couple of instances where BS did win the county, even if he didn't win the majority. But they were few and far between.
In the vast majority of those he "won," he would have lost if Bloomberg hadn't been on the ballot. And not by a little. By a lot. Even in the fake liberal oasis of Austin, Biden + Bloomberg got more votes than BS: 102,465 to 83,803, and percentage-wise: 45.9% to 37.5%. And that's AUSTIN, where if BS could run away with a county, then Travis would have been it. But he didn't run away with it. He barely won it, thanks to vote splitting. San Antonio/Bexar? Same dang thing, only worse for this claim of a Latinx pivot to BS, because San Antonio/Bexar has a far--FAR--higher Hispanic population than Austin. Their numbers? Biden + Bloomberg: 74594, 43.8%, and BS: 56793, 33.2%
In every border or heavily Hispanic county that BS "won," this Biden + Bloomberg > BS plays out over and over and over again.
The Latinx being BS fans in 2020 is thus so much BULLSHIT.
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden