John Leguizamo Calls Out Democrats' Weak Appeals to Latinos | The Daily Show: Ears Edition

you're back at The Daily Show for a segment about how pivotal Latino voters are in this election it looks like the Democrats are in trouble and you might be thinking how is this possible Donald Trump is winning Latinos build the wall Donald Trump Mass deportations Donald Trump guy who thinks Daddy Yankee is a baseball player Donald Trump there's exciting to be a writer on this piece and can you break it down for our listeners like what was this segment about it's about a call to action for uh Biden a call to action to Julie Chavez Rodriguez his uh campaign manager it's a call to action for Latinos and everybody listening that we are the largest voting block after white people 36 million Latinos are going to vote and we're going to decide who's going to be president and It's Tricky now because we only care about we don't care about immigration unfortunately I thought we did but we don't give it we don't give a flying F about immigration we care about our businesses we care about improving our business about getting bank loans about getting uh uh uh you know taxes cut yeah paying for groceries and gas and that's like what this piece is focusing on and um as writers we we hear you're coming we get very excited and we kind of want to pitch some ideas and I was also researching like how important Latinos are like they're the big the biggest voting block yeah we are the fastest growing population America that's right fastest growing you know what that means we [Applause] be and and the thing is that white people are shrinking too and then you see why why fragility is such a thing I'm totally fine with it I I know I wasn't looking at you cat like blaming you or or looking at you try to no no I think there should be much fewer white people no no you know I mean we can all live together I mean that that's the one thing the beautiful thing about L people we love everybody we'll have sex with everyone we don't we we love everybody we love having sex with everyone we love black Asian Jewish white you name it and that's what this podcast is really about is you know who are Ina voters also going to have sex with so would they rather Trump or Biden in this election is the question so getting back to the piece though like getting the real thing they like so since the Latino voters they do have the power to really swing this election whichever way they want and they are losing ground with Biden and gaining ground with Trump even though Biden's the one is who's trying harder what is it that you think the Democrats are doing wrong in their messaging like why are they losing Latino voters right now because they take us for granted man I mean I I know Trump is finally I mean by Trump already knew in 2020 and that's why he was able to get Florida Republicans were working hard they were coming at us in WhatsApp with ads they were coming at us in our Spanish language radio stations with all kinds of trigger words like socialism that triggers Cubans Venezuelans and Colombians now because uh the influx of immigrants from Venezuela escaping uh Maduro uh I may be getting thick into the Latin politics but that's what we're here for uh and they and they came at us with ads they they they talked our talk Biden assumed or the in 2020 the Democrats assumed that we were Democrats just because we were Latino but no you have to come for us you have to you have to work for us you have to knock on our doors you have to call us you have to talk about the the words that trigger us into voting for you and there were so many Latin organizations Grassroots that got zero help in Arizona and Texas zero help these Latinas were doing it by themselves and they gave us Arizona and they almost purped Texas but they didn't have any funds and that's where the mistake is put that money in these Grassroots organizations that are working their ass off to flip these red states which are ridiculous that they're red I mean Arizona is 30% Latino Texas is is the majority is Latino 40% Latino 12% black white people are minority in the fact that Texas hasn't gotten blue yet is such a failure I think on the Democratic party's part like cuz we could have totally made that blue before it's a hard one though because they have Jerry Mander it to a inch I mean now that they got AI that shit's going to be even crazier I mean they they've have so many blocks over there so many tricks up their sleeve yeah they're just making it so much harder to vote and it's been proven like you said with the Grassroots organizations that that is where the real difference matters when you get the people registered to vote in those communities and the voter block even by a few numbers we realize it does make a big difference yeah that's the one thing I never knew about politics and voting was it's just a few numbers I mean sometimes it's a one person voting that makes a difference it's incredible so it makes you realize how important your vote is so the apathy you know Latinos have apathy too they have the apathy you know they feel like I mean I've been traveling around with my show MSNBC show like like was does America and I can't name the cities but people are are living in hard places that get no funding that get no uh the the schools are defunded hospitals are are going away because they're trying to gentrify and urban renewal basically you know kill these cities where Latin people are living so they they understandably they're upset and angry and have apathy yeah and Biden's the president now so it's natural to think well he's the one to blame people have short-term memories too they don't realize that Trump uh handled Co so badly that that's why we had such huge inflationary problems and have all these economic problems but Biden is fixing it and helping it but you know yeah but they're not good at getting that message across no we never we never we weren't good at it with Obama either yeah and in terms we're talking about like uh reaching them in their language in Spanish and now they're even putting money into like Spanglish I love Spanglish I mean Spanglish does only gets to makes you laugh yeah I mean it's not really it's it's it's it's Latinos who like to goof you know we yeah it's not a thing that's funny that's one thing that we didn't put into the p there was a lot of material on Biden getting what they called like a Spanish and Spanglish war room we were like oh it be so funny if we could do a sketch to put John like in the Spanglish War Room different generals but we did Spanglish in our piece basically I mean all Latinos now are trying to do Spanglish which is just a mixture it's not like uh we're not using madeup Spanglish words that's really Spanglish to me he's made up words like when I grew up I was saying Lo laa which is lock the door but it's an English word that doesn't exist par park the car look out we just words that we make up and make Spanish Eyes that's the real Spanglish but now Spanglish just means you flip between both languages really easy okay it's like the brunch of languages like smashing the two together it's lunch and breakfast smashed together and it's yummy yeah I was putting that in brunch terms so the white people would understand it better and the hungry folk out there the Foodies

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Length: 7min 31sec (451 seconds)

Published: Mon May 06 2024