How many Latino voters backed Donald Trump? The Washington Post political team has been all over this issue, asking: Did 29 percent of Hispanics actually vote for Trump? Was this just a matter of “rural” Latinos, whatever that means, swinging his way?
So what’s the answer? It may surprise you, and it will definitely make the progressives angry.
While De La Rosa and his daughters were drawn to Trump’s economic policies, Ismael Aguayo, 31, and his wife, Darlene, 30, were drawn to Trump’s antiabortion stance. More than half of El Pasoans are Catholics or evangelical Christians, according to the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies.
Aguayo and his wife were both raised in evangelical Christian households. They are now raising their two daughters, 8-year-old Darlene and 4-year-old Victoria, the same way. They attend a church in west El Paso, and Aguayo is a member of the church’s advisory council.
Aguayo, who grew up in a rural town outside El Paso, said that he and his wife do not fully support Trump or his agenda, but that a vote for Trump was a vote for “godly principles” that give unborn children a chance at life. While he and his wife “love homosexuals because Jesus loved us no matter what our sin was,” they also oppose same-sex marriage.
His vote for Trump was a vote for at least one conservative Supreme Court justice, he said.
Via GetReligion