On Thursday’s edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press Now,” Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chair Rep. Adriano Espaillat (D-NY) responded to a question on whether the Democratic Party is out of step with working-class Hispanic voters by stating that Hispanic voters who live along the border tend to have different views and have “a more in-depth and more intimate opinion” on the border than people like him who live in Manhattan.
Host Peter Alexander said, “So, at the same time, there are Hispanic Democrats who say the party is out of touch, in particular, to the Latino working class.”
Alexander then read a quotation from Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) where Gallego said, “It’s usually white liberals that are talking to liberal Latinos, and they are essentially saying that’s what working-class Latinos feel and think about immigration. When in reality, they don’t.” And…
