MSNBC's Steve Kornacki warns Hispanics are continuing mass exodus from Democratic Party

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"What's going on here?" asked Kornacki.

He then interviewed Ruy Teixeira, a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who had previously said Hispanics could solidify Democrat power but has recently documented why that support is collapsing.

"There is something happening that is sending them away from the Democrats," explained Teixeira.

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He went on to explain that Democrats wrongly assume Hispanics are moved primarily by concerns relating to racism and discrimination.

"Hispanic voters are normy voters. They’re voters who are concerned with upward mobility, with jobs, healthcare, their communities, their kids, effective schools, public safety. These are voters who thought the Democrats could be relied upon to do a good job in those respects," Teixeira continued.

"And all of that got lost, I think, in the transition from 2016 to 2020," he concluded, "and where we see the Democrats going today, where they've become far, far more socially liberal in a whole variety of issues, which do not, in fact, comport well with the median Hispanic voters, especially the median working class."

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