The Democratic camp's central argument against Trump has been to denounce his supposed visceral racism and that of his electorate.
But the results he has garnered at the polls with Hispanic and even black minorities, explode this mantra repeated a thousand times.
With his mix of economic nationalism, cultural conservatism, political correctness hunting and strong positions on illegal immigration, the president wowed some 35% of the Latino vote, improving his scores in 78 of the 100 counties where Hispanics are in the majority. .
He won 12% of the black vote, 4 points more than in 2016.
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His Americanist stance, as opposed to the obsession with race and gender displayed by the progressive left-wing identity, won him great success in Miami - where the Cubans offered him Florida - but also in Texas and even among the United States. Mexicans from Milwaukee and Puerto Ricans from Philadelphia, a phenomenon that stunned his opponents.
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