October 25, 2024

US presidential election: Immigrants increasingly tempted to vote Republican

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In the United States, the majority of immigrants, as well as first and second-generation citizens, have historically voted for the Democratic Party. However, this trend has been declining in recent years, particularly among Latinos and those who have fled or left an authoritarian country. For these voters, the best bulwark against communism is the Republican Party, regardless of the racist rhetoric used by Donald Trump. They see in the left wing of the Democratic Party the spectre of the regimes they once knew and feared. Our correspondent Fanny Allard went to meet three of them.

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October 25, 2024

US presidential election: Immigrants increasingly tempted to vote Republican

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13 minutes

In the United States, the majority of immigrants, as well as first and second-generation citizens, have historically voted for the Democratic Party. However, this trend has been declining in recent years, particularly among Latinos and those who have fled or left an authoritarian country. For these voters, the best bulwark against communism is the Republican Party, regardless of the racist rhetoric used by Donald Trump. They see in the left wing of the Democratic Party the spectre of the regimes they once knew and feared. Our correspondent Fanny Allard went to meet three of them.

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