Hispanic PA Radio Host Tells MSNBC Dems Lost Latino Men Over Harris’s Gender: ‘The Woman Belongs in the Kitchen’
Pennsylvania radio host Victor Martinez told MSNBC Wednesday he believed Vice President Kamala Harris lost Latino men because of a culture of chauvinism and old stereotypes about gender roles in his community.
After Harris conceded the 2024 race to President-Elect Donald Trump late Wednesday afternoon, Martinez joined MSNBC’s post-election coverage to offer his perspective on the ongoing postmortem of the race for Democrats.
Network anchor Nicolle Wallace noted Martinez had appeared on the network in the wake of Tony Hinhcliffe’s Puerto Rican joke at Trump’s Madison Square Garden rally. Martinez offered MSNBC’s viewers insight into how the barb was received in Allentown’s Hispanic community.
Wednesday, Martinez said he believed Democrats would struggle to court Hispanic men as long as they nominated women. He noted they turned out in greater numbers for Joe Biden in 2020 than for Harris or for Hillary Clinton in 2016. He also explained of Tuesday’s turnout for Trump in Pennsylvania:
As far as the Latino vote in general, it was the Latino man. It was a Latino man who decided that they were going to vote for Donald Trump. And I will dare to say that it’s the Latino man who will – who wouldn’t want a woman president. I mean, you and I had this discussion before, and I have audios from the Latino men who were calling my show, telling me that they wouldn’t vote for her just because she was a woman.
And that is unfortunate, but that’s part of the Latino culture, right, with the Latino the man. And he’s the one, the provider. And we’re the boss, and we still, unfortunately, have a lot of Latinos with that mentality where the woman belongs in the kitchen. That is a reality of the Latino male chauvinist culture. And I think that’s what exactly what happened.
Wallace asked Martinize how Democrats could court Latino men. He replied:
I mean, again, they were willing to vote for Joe Biden. They were just not willing to vote for Kamala Harris. So I will say, listen, the Democratic Party needs to make sure that they regroup, that they look for somebody young, vibrant. They can make the case just like Joe Biden did. But unfortunately, as far as these Latino men. I don’t think at any time in the future they will vote for a female president.
That’s sad to say. I’m a Latino man. I supported Kamala Harris. But I can tell you, I heard it. I brought that to your attention. I brought you audios of men calling my show and telling me, oh no, no, no, she won’t be respected. No, no, no, no. There is no way she can handle the job. And I will argue with them on the air, and I will bring examples of all the female powerful leaders in the world, and they seem not to want to hear it.
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