Kamala Harris‘ campaign boss was grilled Thursday for ‘personally’ getting the election ‘so wrong’ after the Democrat presidential nominee conceded election defeat to Donald Trump.
Speaking on CNN Rep. Roberto Garcia, a co-chair of Harris’ campaign, was questioned by anchor Jake Tapper on why the Democratic party lost votes from Latino men to Trump.
Garcia affirmed that Harris ‘won the Latino vote overall’ but confessed that the Democrats had ‘a lot of work to do with Latino men’ following this week’s election result.
But Tapper shot back at the congressman – who is Latino himself – and asked him: ‘How did you personally get it so wrong?’.
‘There’s a Latina producer on my staff from Los Angeles who has been seeing this phenomenon of folk in her community moving right for years. I don’t think she was surprised. I know she wasn’t surprised by what happened. You were. So, how did you get it so wrong?’, the anchor went on to say.
Garcia’s grilling on television comes after president-elect Trump made an astounding political comeback after being backed by 46 per cent of all Latino voters – the most by any Republican in modern history.
Garcia admitted that he was surprised by Harris’ defeat, and admitted how he and several colleagues in congress believed that the vice president had consolidated the Latino male vote.
‘Look, she still won, obviously, Latinos overwhelmingly. She won the Latino vote overall, but there is a lot of work to do with Latino men, and I think that’s something we as Democrats have to engage in.
‘I think particularly for those of us that are Latinos, those of us that are immigrants like myself, who came to this country, who worked hard, whose family worked hard in search of a better life’, he concluded.
Garcia’s television appearance comes after MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough claimed ‘racist Hispanics’ and ‘sexist black men’ are to blame for Harris’ electoral loss.
The Morning Joe host made the controversial claim on Wednesday as he discussed Trump’s landslide win for the White House.
Speaking to rev Al Sharpton, Scarborough – who earlier appeared to accept the result – said ‘Democrats need to be mature, and they need to be honest.
‘And they need to say, ‘Yes, there is misogyny, but it’s not just misogyny from white men…
‘It’s misogyny from Hispanic men, it’s misogyny from black men – things we’ve all been talking about – who do not want a woman leading them.’
Scarborough, an ex-Republican, continued his rant: ‘but is not just misogyny from Hispanic men, from black men,
‘[There] might be race issues with Hispanics that don’t want a black woman president of the United States.’
‘It’s time for the Democrats to say … a lot of Hispanic voters have problems with black candidates,’ Scarborough said.
