But he said Biden is best positioned for a general election on immigration because of his plans to roll back Trump’s immigration restrictions and boost the asylum process, while stopping short of decriminalizing all border crossings. Filemon Vela, also a border-district congressman who backs Biden, was not so absolute. It’s impossible for polling almost a year ahead of a general election to affirm that view, but the contention echoes Biden’s consistent arguments about Electoral College math. “If Joe Biden loses the primary, Democrats will lose in 2020.”
Vicente Gonzalez, a Biden supporter whose congressional district includes part of the U.S.-Mexico border. “We need to be honest here,” retorted Texas Rep. That argument, they insist, can draw enough new, irregular voters to defeat Trump in November. Sanders and his supporters like Ocasio-Cortez argue that existing political structures cannot help working-class Americans, immigrants or anyone else. Together, it’s an argument on politics and policy at the crux of Democrats’ 2020 nominating fight. Sanders, true to his long Capitol Hill tenure as an outsider and democratic socialist, eschews the establishment with promises of a political revolution, just as he did when he finished as runner-up for Democrats’ 2016 nomination. Cárdenas joins four other Hispanic caucus members who’ve already backed Biden, a show of establishment support in contrast to some Latino activists who’ve battered Biden over the Obama administration’s deportation record.
Biden is capitalizing on his 36-year Senate career and two terms as Barack Obama’s Vice President to corral Democratic power players across the party’s various demographic slices. The dynamics also demonstrate the starkly different approaches that Biden and Sanders take to the larger campaign. There are few recent national polls with a sufficient sample of Hispanic Democratic voters to analyze them independently. Elizabeth Warren, draws less support from non-white voters. Biden leads the field among Democratic voters who are non-white, a group that includes Democratic voters who are Hispanic, with Sanders not far behind, according to national polling. The dueling surrogates highlight a fierce battle for the Hispanic vote between Sanders and Biden, whose campaigns each see the two candidates as the leading contenders. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a freshman congresswoman from New York who has become a face of the progressive movement and a key supporter for the Vermont senator’s second White House bid. His announcement follows presidential candidate Bernie Sanders’ weekend of mass rallies with Rep. Tony Cárdenas, a California Democrat, told The Associated Press in an interview, explaining the necessity of halting Trump’s populist nationalism, hard-line immigration policies and xenophobic rhetoric that the California congressman called cruel.Ĭárdenas’ is the chairman of Bold PAC, the political arm of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus. “People realize it’s a matter of life and death for certain communities,” Rep. Joe Biden’s presidential bid got a boost Monday from one of the leading Latinos in Congress, with the chairman of the Hispanic Caucus’ political arm endorsing the former Vice President as Democrats’ best hope to defeat President Donald Trump.
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