RNC Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

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Hispanic Americans Are Finding That Their Values Of Family, Faith, And Freedom Are Better Represented In The Republican Party

REPUBLICANS ARE COMMITTED TO THE HISPANIC COMMUNITY

The RNC is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month by recognizing the extraordinary contributions of the Hispanic community to our country.
Last cycle, the RNC opened 20 Hispanic Community Centers to bring Republicans’ message of freedom, opportunity, and conservative values to the Hispanic community.
- This cycle, the RNC is continuing to engage with the Hispanic community and welcome new members into our party of opportunity.
This commitment is not new; the Republican Party has a long history of making in-roads with the Hispanic community and Republican Hispanic leaders breaking down barriers.
- In 1928, Republican Octaviano Ambrosio Larrazolo became the first Hispanic American to serve in the Senate.
- In 1971, President Nixon appointed the first Mexican-American woman to be Treasurer of the United States, Romana Acosta Bañuelos.
- Ben Fernandez, the co-founder of the Republican National Hispanic Assembly, became the first Hispanic to run for president in a major party’s presidential primary when he ran as a Republican in 1980.
- In 1988, President Reagan appointed the first Hispanic Cabinet member, Dr. Lauro Cavazos, to serve as Secretary of Education.
- In 1989, Republican Ileana Ros-Lehtinen became the first Hispanic woman elected to Congress.
- In 2022, Republican Rep. Mayra Flores (R-TX) became the first Mexican-born congresswoman.
Hispanic voters are flocking to the Republican Party, rejecting Biden’s authoritarian decrees and socialist policies.
- In 2020, Republicans flipped 15 congressional seats from Democrat to Republican – in each of the seats flipped, the elected winner was either a woman or minority, with four seats won by Hispanic Americans.
- In 2021, Republican Javier Villalobos was elected mayor of McAllen, Texas, a majority Hispanic city, the first time a Republican won in 24 years.
- In 2022, Hispanic Republican candidates, including Juan Ciscomani (AZ-06), Anna Paulina Luna (FL-13), Lori Chavez-DeRemer (OR-05), and Monica De La Cruz (TX-15), won seats in races across the country.

BIDEN’S ECONOMY HAS LEFT HISPANIC AMERICANS BEHIND

Hispanic Americans are being left behind in Biden’s economy, burdened with higher prices, soaring interest rates, and lower wages.
- Under Republican leadership, the Hispanic community saw a record low unemployment rate, record high homeownership, and record low poverty.
Under Biden, median household income among Hispanics remains below pre-pandemic levels.
Inflation-adjusted median usual weekly earnings for Hispanic Americans are now lower than when Biden first took office.
According to a study by the Dallas Fed, inflation is disproportionately hurting Hispanic households, with 57 percent of Hispanic Americans stressed by high inflation.
A study by the Urban Institute found that Hispanic Americans are at a much higher risk of experiencing food insecurity due to Bidenflation.
Moody’s Analytics found that the typical American family is spending $709 more a month on the same goods and services as they were two years ago.
Hispanic Americans are not happy with Biden’s economy.
- 56 percent of Hispanic Americans disapprove of Biden’s handling of inflation, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll.
- 82 percent of Hispanic Americans rate current economic conditions as only fair/poor and 71 percent of Hispanic Americans are not satisfied with the way things are going in the country today, according to a recent Fox News poll.

DEMOCRAT POLICIES ARE FAILING HISPANIC AMERICANS

Biden opposes school choice despite its benefits, such as higher reading and math scores.
- Hispanic parents want better education choices for their children, with a clear majority of Hispanic Americans supporting school choice.
National test scores have plummeted to historic lows as a result of Democrats’ extended school closures – erasing decades of progress and disproportionately hurting low-income and minority students.
- Hispanic students were put at a further disadvantage due to school closures, “in part because their schools were more likely to continue remote learning for longer periods of time.”
In July 2021, when thousands of Cubans were marching for freedom from the communist Castro regime, Biden failed to forcefully stand up for the Cuban people.

BIDEN’S BORDER POLICIES HAVE DISPROPORTIONATLEY HURT HISPANIC AMERICANS

U.S. border communities, which are often majority-Hispanic, are bearing the brunt of Biden’s border crisis.
With border towns overwhelmed by illegal immigrants, hospitals are increasingly unable to care for their own community.
- In February, it was reported that Yuma, Arizona’s only hospital was on the brink of collapse – forced to delay residents’ care in order to treat illegal immigrants and racking up millions in unpaid expenses.
This increase in border traffic is bringing crime to our border communities, including drugs, theft, sex offenses, kidnapping, and assault.
- Local law enforcement is tied up dealing with the surge in crossings, draining resources that are typically used for everyday policing activities.
Fentanyl pouring over the border has made its way into the Hispanic community, causing drug overdose deaths among Hispanics to spike in recent years.
81 percent of Hispanic voters are concerned about the border and a majority believe the situation at the border has gotten worse since Biden took office, according to a recent poll by The Center Square.

RATHER THAN PROVIDE REAL SOLUTIONS, All BIDEN CAN DO IS PANDER

On the campaign trail, Biden played “Despacito” during a campaign stop in Florida in a phony attempt to appeal to Hispanic voters.
Biden uses the woke term “Latinx” – which only one in four Latino adults have heard of and only three percent use.
- As part of Biden and Democrats’ failed $1.9 trillion “stimulus,” $60,000 was spent on a grant to research “Latinx” history.
Jill Biden butchered the phrase “si se puede” while attending a Cesar Chavez event.
Jill Biden spoke at a “Latinx IncluXion” event where she said Hispanics are as “unique” as “breakfast tacos.”
As part of Biden and Democrats’ failed $1.9 trillion “stimulus,” $60,000 was spent on a grant to research “Latinx” history.