NY Times: Trump's support among Black and Latino voters has not fallen.
By David Leonhardt
Good morning. Protests have grown more volatile. New virus cases are stabilizing, at a high level. And Trump’s support among Black and Latino voters has not fallen.
Since taking office, President Trump has lost support among most major demographic groups: women and men, older and younger voters, college graduates and non-graduates. But there are at least two big exceptions: Black and Latino voters.
Trump will lose both groups badly in November, polls show. But his support among them has not slipped. If anything, it may have risen slightly. Close to 10 percent of Black voters and roughly 30 percent of Latinos back Trump.
“I think there’s a lot of denial about this fact,” David Shor, a top Democratic data analyst, recently told New York magazine.
This enduring Black and Latino support for Republicans has had big consequences. It helped the party win victories in 2018 in Florida, Georgia and Texas, and could help decide Senate control this year.
What explains it? Most political analysts admit they aren’t sure. “I don’t think there are obvious answers,” Shor said.
But there are some plausible theories.
Republican support among voters of color (including Asian-Americans) fell in the years before Trump entered politics. Many were turned off by the Republican Party’s racial appeals to white voters — anti-immigrant rhetoric, embrace of the Confederate flag, lies about Barack Obama and attempts to restrict voting access.
Trump has adopted a more obvious version of white identity politics. But he didn’t invent the tactic. Black and Latino Americans who still vote Republican may simply not be bothered by it.
“Latino support for Trump was already at historic lows,” Gary Segura, dean of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at U.C.L.A. and co-founder of the polling firm Latino Decisions, told me. “There’s just not that much room for them to move down.”
These Republican voters of color may instead be focused on other issues. Black and Latino voters are somewhat more conservative on abortion than white voters, for instance. Some voters of color also favor a reduction in immigration. Others don’t like political correctness. Shor points out that a big slice of working-class voters in many countries — across races — prefer the right-leaning party.
Mark Hugo Lopez of the Pew Research Center notes that Latinos are a diverse group. In focus groups in Florida, Lopez has seen Dominican- and Cuban-Americans react to Trump’s harsh comments about Mexican immigrants with lines like, “That’s unfortunate but not necessarily me.”
Finally, some analysts say that Joe Biden and other Democrats haven’t given voters of color enough reason to support the party. “Dems need to give them something to vote for, not simply against,” Cornell Belcher, a Democratic strategist, told me.
“Latinos don’t have a strongly formed opinion” about Biden, Stephanie Valencia of Equis Research told Vox’s Matthew Yglesias.
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Too bad if it's the wrong antibodies.
But, I guess that's for future trials to sort out.
I'm still wondering about the testing. There are several reports out that indicate COVID may have been around since the Summer of 2019. Such as the report which found evidence there were approximately 170 people who used the facilities at Yosemite National Park in July of that year. So, how do they sort out people who may have had the disease and are now testing positive vs people who have just contracted the disease?
Is being symptomatic the call? Are they calling people who may have had and recovered from the disease previously and testing positive as currently infected and asymptomatic? 
I know you probably don't know the answer, but, I've been pondering the possibility.
aside from women (who aren't really a minority either).
But, you know the Republicans who only care which of the four countries of Mexico they came from. 
