You failed Latinos
Alfredo Martin Bravo de Rueda Espejo
Author of Gatito Inmeegrante
Just consider the disaster the WSJ poll linked below represents for Latinos and immigrants in particular after Manchin destroyed Biden's credibility last Sunday. These are Biden's numbers and, with his credibility seriously harmed, it will be close to impossible for him to revert them:
On foreign policy:
On the pandemic:
On the economy:
On immigration:
And this is the result in terms of Latino support (Consider the tragic turn of opinion about Trump Republicans and immigration in page 8):
Even if Manchin decides in the future to support a rachitic version of Build Back Better, it will be too little, too late and the damage to Biden’s credibility is already done. His preference for ‘soft power’ is going to drag the other 48 Democratic Senators down with him next year and very probably in 2024 too (unless you can trust a Trump Republican Congress to exercise constructive opposition…).
For months I have been trying to coordinate efforts with many of you in order to prevent a trend like this. All I got were format phrases of encouragement that belong more in Hallmark greeting cards than on what should be informed, professional opinions. If you at last decide that it's time to give a shot to something else (at least to the damage-control level) instead of continue riding in carrousel mechanical horses fed by quarters, feel free to contact me.