The political realignment that’s coming into focus after Kamala Harris’ landslide loss had President-elect Donald J. Trump getting the largest percentage of the Latino vote for a GOP candidate in modern history.

Trump was supported by around 45 percent of Latino voters, a crushing blow for Harris and Democrats and her Hispanic campaign Co-Chair Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) was visibly uncomfortable when he was grilled by CNN’s Jake Tapper about the exodus of the normally reliable demographic.

On Thursday’s edition of “The Lead,” Tapper put Garcia on the spot about how he had “personally” gotten it “so wrong” about the Latino vote.

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“I mean, look, this obviously was a rough night for us nationally as it relates to the presidency,” Garcia explained. “I think it’s a challenge. It is one that we have to work on, the Democrats have to engage in. We have to be on the ground, we have to listen.”

“I guess my question is, how did you personally get it so wrong?” Tapper asked. “There’s a Latina producer on my staff from Los Angeles who’s been seeing this phenomenon of the Latino 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?”

“I was,” stammered Garcia. “I mean, look, we were looking at a lot of the same data, a lot of data across the country, data state-by-state. I personally talked to numerous community groups across the country, Nevada, Arizona, met with groups of Latino men and undecided voters.”

“Certainly the Harris campaign, myself included, many of us in Congress believed the Latino vote was continuing to consolidate around Vice President Harris and that was just not the case,” he continued.

“Look, she still won, obviously, Latinas overwhelmingly,” Garcia said, doing his best to polish a turd. “She won the Latino vote overall, but there’s 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.”

“I think there’s a lot of work to do to ensure that we communicate to folks the Democratic party is the party of working people, is the party that supports immigrants, is the party that supports the social safety net,” the congressman said, despite the fact that voters correctly now perceive the Democrats to be the party of the elite.

It’s now evident that Kamala’s race-baiting pandering to Latino men fell flat after she tried to shame them over supporting Trump.

Donald Trump has disrespected and insulted Latino men and communities. As president, I will invest in them. pic.twitter.com/2ZxaHVMoef

— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) October 22, 2024

Trump’s percentage of the Latino vote exceeded that of even Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, a shift that could spell big trouble for Democrats going forward with the party now in complete disarray after the collapse of the “woke” regime and the candidacy of failed “border czar” Harris.

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