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MSNBC Election Expert Stuns ‘Morning Joe’ Hosts, Reveals Trump’s Growing Hispanic Support

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Steve Kornacki, a national political correspondent for NBC News, revealed some good news for the GOP in the state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday. Former President Donald Trump is now growing in popularity among Hispanic voters ahead of the general election in November. During an appearance on the network, Kornacki stated that Democrats have taken significant hits in support among Hispanic-majority cities in Berks County, Lehigh County, and Luzerne County in the critical battleground state.

According to Kornacki, Democratic support dropped from 45 points down to 35 points between elections held in 2012 and 2020 in the city of Allentown. A total of 54 percent of Allentown is Hispanic, data taken from the last three presidential elections has revealed.

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“Take a look, here’s Allentown. Lehigh County, this has the highest concentration of Hispanics in Pennsylvania,” Kornacki went on to say during an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “It’s a 54% Hispanic, and look at this, the trend has been toward Republicans. The state was moving toward the Democrats between ’16 and ’20, but in Allentown, Clinton won it by 42 [points] in ’16, fell down to 35 in 2020. This is an area, we’ve talked so much about the polls showing Trump making more inroads with Latino voters, this is the kind of place where the Trump folks think this trend can continue.”

Kornacki then shifted focus over to Hazleton, Pennsylvania, which has a Hispanic population of 63 percent, examining past election results from that demographic. One city that has experienced a massive drop in support for Democrats in the state is Reading. The city has a Hispanic population of 67 percent and has seen support for the left go from 64 points back in 2012, to 45 in 2020.

“Again, look at this trend. It was blue in 2012, Hazleton was for Obama. And then Trump comes along, he carries it by 5, he improves it to 11. Again, this is a kind of place where Trump folks think they can do better,” Kornacki added during the segment. “And again, this is very much a majority Hispanic city. Or Reading … you just take a look right here. Overwhelmingly Democratic, but from 2012, when Barack Obama won re-election, to 2020 when Biden carried Pennsylvania. That’s a drop of basically 20 points in the Democratic margin here in a heavily Hispanic city.”

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“So the trend in the most Hispanic cities in Pennsylvania, as the state was getting more Democratic in 2020, they were becoming more Republican,” Kornacki told viewers. During the 2020 election, President Joe Biden took 50 percent of the vote in Pennsylvania to Trump’s 48 percent. Trump took Luzerne County 56 percent to 42 percent, along with Berks County, 53 percent to 45 percent. Biden nabbed Lehigh County, 53 percent to 45 percent.

“Polls found Biden getting trounced among Hispanic voters regarding key issues, a demographic which has historically been a key voting bloc for Democrats. An Axios/Ipsos survey from April found Trump leading Biden by 22 points on the economy, 11 points on crime and seven points on immigration among Latino voters, while Biden held a nine-point lead on abortion,” The Daily Caller reported.

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