Ex-Dem lawmaker calls his occasion’s method to Latino voters ‘very ignorant’

Former Democratic lawmaker and current CNN political commentator Bakari Sellers slammed his party’s “very ignorant” approach to Latino voters. 

Appearing on the Political Roots podcast, Sellers sounded the alarm on what he perceived to be a lack of outreach from the Biden campaign to minority communities this far into the president’s reelection effort. 

But Sellers took a moment to knock the Democratic Party’s broader handling of the Latino community, in particular. 

“The Latino community we approach in a very ignorant fashion,” Sellers said on the podcast released Sunday.

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CNN political analyst Bakari Sellers slammed the Democratic Celebration’s “very ignorant” method to Latino voters. (Paras Griffin/Getty Photographs for Operation Hope)

“Yes. As if they’re one monolithic group,” podcast host Michael Starr Hopkins agreed. 

“Correct. And that drives me nuts,” Sellers continued. “Democrats use words like ‘Latinx’ that, you know-“

“Latinos don’t use,” Hopkins interjected. 

“Exactly,” Sellers stated. “I mean, we treat Cubans the same way we treat Venezuelans… the same we treat El Salvadorians. I mean, it’s just- it’s weird.” 

“It’s insulting,” Starr stated. 

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Sellers sounded the alarm about Staff Biden’s lack of outreach in the direction of minority teams forward of the 2024 election. (SAUL LOEB/AFP by way of Getty Photographs)

“It’s insulting,” Sellers agreed. “And then we think that they don’t care about issues like crime, or they don’t care about issues like the economy. I mean, we just say we’re gonna do something around immigration and Dreamers, which is good, and that’s it.” 

“I mean, that’s like messaging the Black folk about criminal justice reform. We need a little bit more than that,” he continued. “You know, the president and vice president have done a good job with issues that directly affect our communities. But since I’ve been alive, I mean, [except] for Bill Clinton, we’ve just been terrible messengers.”

Sellers served in South Carolina’s Home of Representatives from 2006-2014 earlier than working on the Democratic ticket for lieutenant governor, shedding to his GOP rival Henry McMaster, who ran on the identical ticket as then-Gov. Nikki Haley.

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A current USA At the moment/Suffolk College ballot indicated Trump leads Biden by 5% amongst Hispanic voters. (Fox & Associates/Screengrab)

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Polls point out President Biden’s assist amongst Latino voters has plummeted main as much as the 2024 election. 

A current USA At the moment/Suffolk College ballot exhibits him shedding to President Trump amongst these voters, 34%-39%. 

In the meantime, Trump noticed a rise in assist amongst Latino and Black voters within the 2020 election in comparison with the 2016 election, leaping from 28% to 35% amongst Latinos and from 6% to eight% amongst Black voters, in response to Fox News Voter Analysis on the time.