Trump REPEATS GOP's DISASTROUS Mistake...

Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian react to the Latino vote in the November 3 midterms, which they say they predicted. According to the AP Voter Poll, about one-third of Hispanic voters backed the Republican in their U.S. House race, compared with roughly four in 10 who voted for Trump in 2024. In Texas, about 7 in 10 Hispanic voters backed Democrat James Talarico over Republican Ken Paxton, Democrats flipped a U.S. Senate seat and the governor’s office, every county voted more Democratic than in 2024, and Democrats won every House district along the U.S.-Mexico border for the first time since 2008, even though Texas Republicans’ redistricting map survived court challenges, as the hosts note. Voters cited rising prices, government corruption and Trump’s immigration crackdown. Shant argues Latino voters turned out less out of love for Democrats than anger at Trump, and AP quotes one Latino Democratic mayor warning that Hispanic voters are “on probation.” Brian traces the pattern to 1994, when Republican Gov. Pete Wilson backed Proposition 187, which would have cut publicly funded services including schooling and medical care for undocumented immigrants. California voters approved it, but courts struck it down, in part because states cannot deny undocumented children public education under Plyler v. Doe (1982), so it never took effect. Brian says he told Republican friends then that they had lost the Latino vote in California for a generation, and the hosts point to the rise of Latino officials, including Democrat Xavier Becerra, whom they call California’s governor-elect. They predict Trump and Stephen Miller will not change course. Brian closes with a pun: Prop 187 shares its number with the California Penal Code section for homicide. Brian’s bottom line: Republicans killed their own standing with Latino voters in California once, and are watching it happen nationally.

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