To the editor: Nice story on Latino voters in Downey swinging towards President-elect Donald Trump. However think about the next for extra context.
In Downey, Trump obtained only one,656 extra votes in 2024 than in 2020. Extra considerably, Vice President Kamala Harris obtained 8,520 fewer votes than President Biden in Downey.
Voters in Downey didn’t run towards Trump; they stepped away from Harris.
Fernando Guerra, Los Angeles
The author, a political science professor, is director of the Heart for the Research of L.A. at Loyola Marymount College.
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To the editor: One motive political strategist Mike Madrid provides for Latino voters shifting proper is that lots of the youthful Latinos don’t know or bear in mind the battle over California’s Proposition 187 in 1994.
However each certainly one of them was alive when the final Trump administration ripped nearly 5,000 immigrant youngsters away from their mother and father.
These acts of intentional cruelty ought to have led any ethical individual to not vote for Trump. It’s unhappy that so many failed that check.
Alex Magdaleno, Camarillo
