Trump strategist: "Hispanic voting shift is the single most important thing in American politics right now"

Former Trump White House Chief Strategist Stephen K. Bannon says Hispanics are making a bold shift to Trump Republicanism, a move he is convinced will fundamentally transform the U.S. balance of power from the left to the right.

The ADN America interview came shortly after Bannon made a revealing comment earlier this week in front of a Washington, D.C. federal courthouse where he recently pleaded not guilty on Wednesday to two counts of contempt of Congress.

“We got the Hispanics going on our side, African Americans coming on our side,” Bannon told reporters. “We’re taking down the Biden regime — every day the focus,” he added. 

ADN America contacted Bannon and asked him to elaborate on his prophetic courthouse comments, and in an exclusive interview, the former Trump strategist told all.

“The Hispanic voting shift is the single most important thing in American politics right now, and it’s a catastrophe for the left. That’s the reason the mainstream media won’t touch it,” Bannon told ADN America. “This is all shifting.”

Clinging to family values and parental rights

Bannon said one of the reasons for Hispanic defection from the left to the right is the community’s strong roots in family values, an institution the left has been largely dismissive of.

“The traditional nature of the Hispanic community and their traditional family values coupled with the fact they understand that populist economics benefit them is creating a major shift,” he said. “It’s inevitable.”

When asked to elaborate, Bannon said the left’s recent push that school boards have more rights than parents touched a sensitive nerve, particularly with Hispanics who hail from totalitarian countries that used schools as instruments of propaganda.

“Hispanics believe freedom is central,” Bannon said. “The first thing that triggered these concerns was the mask mandates, the second thing was the vaccine mandates and the third issue is the teaching of Critical Race Theory, which I think they’re totally opposed to. Just ask anyone in Virginia—they’re very anti-CRT.”

According to Bannon, Hispanics have been leading the forefront on mandates even in California, widely recognized as the most liberal state in the country.

“The Hispanic community has been leading the charge on this in Los Angeles County,” he said. Some of the organizations there were among the first to contest mandates, particularly the stay at home mandates. The Hispanic community was the leader of getting children back in the classroom. They understand socioeconomically they can’t just take off work, and that the kids are not getting the same quality education remotely.”

Hispanics do not believe America is a racist country

According to the former Trump Chief Strategist, Hispanics aren’t buying into Critical Race Theory. The evidence of this, he suggests is the fact so many Hispanics continue to leave their own countries with hopes to emigrate to the U.S.

“Hispanics would never come to a country that is racist,” Bannon asserted. “I just don’t think they’ve bought into Critical Race Theory, and they don’t believe America is systemically racist. They’ve seen the work of totalitarian countries and what that looks like.

“No one has dealt with this more than the Hispanic community in Central and South America, and Cuba. They understand more than anyone the fresh air of liberty and they don’t want to get back into an authoritarian society like the ones they fled. They are the forefront of this populist revolution. Categorially, there is a dramatic shift to Trump Republicanism right now—not just Republicanism, but Trump Republicanism.”

Hispanics could shift up to 100 seats in Congress in 2022

Bannon added that although Hispanics from totalitarian societies or those who have been traditionally associated with the right are not the only ones participating in the conservative shift.

“It’s not just the Cuban community,” Bannon said firmly. “This has been the experience of the entire Hispanic community broadly defined. “The Democrats know this house of cards is about to collapse between the Hispanic and African American vote, and it is the thing no one wants to talk about, but it’s happening.”

The former chief strategist said he has strong optimism about the impact both Hispanics and African Americans will have in the upcoming 2022 Congressional mid-term elections.

“My mantra is 100 seats for 100 years,” he said about the upcoming U.S. Congressional shift in power. Those 100 seats will come from the surge from Hispanics in the 2022 Election and from getting 50% of African-American men. The 2020 numbers from last year are unbelievable.”

The proof is in the numbers

Bannon’s assertions are confirmed by many studies that have shown that although Latinos still favored Democrats overall in the 2020 elections, there was a significant shift to the right and a huge upsurge of Latinos participating in the election process.

“Along with massive increases in turnout, Latino vote share as a whole swung towards Trump by 8 points in two-way vote share compared to 2016, though Biden-Harris still enjoyed solid majority (61%) support among this group,” according to a recent report from Democratic data analyst firm, Catalist. The firm also said the number of Latinos who cast votes increased by 31% from 2016 to 2020.

According to a June 30, 2021 Pew Research Center study, “Even as Biden held on to a majority of Hispanic voters in 2020, Trump made gains among this group overall. There was a wide educational divide among Hispanic voters: Trump did substantially better with those without a college degree than college-educated Hispanic voters (41% vs. 30%).”

Most significantly, numbers took a dramatic turn in Florida’s Miami-Dade community, where the Democratic Party lost 23 points, in which Hillary Clinton’s 30-point lead in 2016 narrowed to a mere 7-point lead for Joe Biden in 2020. Ultimately, Trump won the state by 3.4%.

In 2020, CNN commentator Steve Cortes, who also served as a member of the Trump campaign Latino Advisory Council predicted the Latino vote would create a significant turn toward the right.

“The entrepreneurial zeal of the Hispanic community is incredible. It’s a gift to America,” Cortes told Fox and Friends. “Donald Trump has unleashed this kind of optimism in the Hispanic small business community that I think will translate into votes.”