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CNN Panel: Historically Blue State Will Be Won By Trump In November

Charlie Kirk Staff

06/10/2024

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CNN Panel: Historically Blue State Will Be Won By Trump In November

A CNN politics panel discussing the 2024 election on Sunday featured one contributor who believes that former President Donald Trump is poised to win a state that has gone to the Democratic presidential nominee for 20 years.

Presumptive 2024 Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump held a rally on Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada, a swing state where he leads President Joe Biden by 5.3 points, according to RealClearPolitics polling data. CNN host Kasie Hunt and panelists Lulu Garcia Navarro and Jonah Goldberg acknowledged that Trump is poised to win the state, which Biden secured by 2.4 points in 2020, attributing the Republican candidate’s lead to support from Hispanic voters and economic factors.

“Nevada is changing. Latino voters, in particular, an opportunity for Donald Trump in a way that, you know, some people may not have wrapped their heads around. But Lulu, it does seem like — I’ll be honest at this point, it feels like Nevada’s gonna land in Trump’s column. Why?” Hunt asked.

“If Nevada lands in Trump’s column, it’s going to be because of the economy,” Garcia Navarro told the CNN host. “Frankly, Nevada is a place where you have a lot of working class, um, service workers. Um, they are very impacted by high prices, they have been hurt during the pandemic, um, and they are looking for improvements in the economy, and as we know, um, people are nostalgic of the Trump economy pre-pandemic. They think that they did better then. And they believe that he would be able to turn the economy around for them now. And so that, I think, is the main appeal.”

According to any measure of economic data, the vast majority of Americans did do better under Trump than they have under Biden’s inflationary economy.

Garcia Navarro remarked that people make the “mistake” of assuming Hispanic voters view immigration as “the main issue,” which she said is “not true.” The CNN contributor listed education, crime, and the economy as the main concerns of Hispanic voters, stating that Trump is “polling better” on all three issues, the Daily Caller reported.

Goldberg expressed concern that Biden’s contemplation of another executive order concerning the southern border “might be” a mistake. The political commentator told Hunt that “blacks and Latinos are just following a little slower” as the electorate splits between working-class and college-educated constituents.

“It has always been true that Hispanic voters, as they move up the socioeconomic ladder, become indistinguishable from the median voter,” Goldberg said. “People think, for a long time the Republicans thought, ‘Oh, Hispanics just always vote Democrat,’ no. Poor people tended to vote Democrat. As Hispanics moved up the socioeconomic ladder, they tended to look indistinguishable from other voters.”

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Charlie Kirk is the Founder and President of Turning Point USA, a national student movement dedicated to empowering young people to promote the principles of free markets and limited government.

Charlie is also the host of “The Charlie Kirk Show” podcast, which regularly ranks among the top-10 news shows on Apple podcast news charts, and is the host of the nationally syndicated daily radio show on the Salem Radio Network live from 12 - 3 PM ET.
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