Representatives Monica De La Cruz (R-Texas) and María Elvira Salazar (R-Florida) said Tuesday that former President Trump’s selection of Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) as his running mate and the recent assassination attempt on Trump will increase Latino support for the Republican Party.
“I wonder, Congressman De La Cruz, in your opinion, do you think JD Vance will help Latino voters in your district?” Noticias Telemundo anchor, Júlio Vaqueiro asked at a reception at the Republican National Convention hosted by Axios and Noticias Telemundo.
“I think Senator Vance is an excellent choice and I believe he will connect with voters and move, specifically, Hispanics toward the Republican Party, but toward voting for President Trump,” De La Cruz said. he said. “The reason is because, first of all, Hispanics tend to have larger families, but we are also the demographic that has the youngest demographic.”
“So we’re the minorities that have the youngest demographic in the country, and let’s be honest with you and our viewers here, is that right now, the younger demographic, they don’t connect with [President] Biden, and one of them has to do with age,” continued De La Cruz.
De La Cruz said he believes Hispanics “will be connecting with President Trump this cycle.”
Vance, if he and Trump win the White House in the fall, would be a historically young vice president. He is currently 39 years old and will turn 40 in August.
Salazar said the Ohio senator “is the American dream” and that “he managed to escape poverty in a very difficult rural area in Ohio.” She said Hispanics “can look up to him and say, ‘Well, if he did it, so can we.’”
De La Cruz called the recent assassination attempt on Trump “political persecution” and said that “many Latinos” have “families” who “fled Latin America, because of political persecution.” She said seeing this “happen with President Trump, in the United States of America, the greatest country on this planet,” would also result in Latino families voting Republican.
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