To the editor: Nice story on Latino voters in Downey swinging toward President-elect Donald Trump. However take into account the next for extra context.
In Downey, Trump acquired just one,656 extra votes in 2024 than in 2020. Extra considerably, Vice President Kamala Harris acquired 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 Examine of L.A. at Loyola Marymount College.
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To the editor: One motive political strategist Mike Madrid offers for Latino voters moving right is that lots of the youthful Latinos don’t know or keep in mind the combat over California’s Proposition 187 in 1994.
However each one in all them was alive when the final Trump administration ripped nearly 5,000 immigrant youngsters away from their dad and mom.
These acts of intentional cruelty ought to have led any ethical particular person to not vote for Trump. It’s unhappy that so many failed that check.
Alex Magdaleno, Camarillo
