Congressman Richie Torres of New York accused MSNBC host Joy Reid of insulting a Latino man who supported President-elect Trump in last week's election.
On Friday, Reid took aim at a diverse group of voters who didn't push Vice President Kamala Harris across the finish line, including white women and men of all ages.
She then singled out Latino men, showing how 55% of them voted for Trump, according to an NBC News exit poll.
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MSNBC's Joy Reid shamed a Latino man who supported President-elect Trump in last week's election. (Screenshot/MSNBC)
“And despite President Trump's utter disrespect and promise to deport some mixed-class, mixed-status families, most of them voted 55% to leave the country.” I voted to make the expulsion happen,” Reed said. . “You voted for Stephen Miller and David Duke against your own sister who chose Kamala Harris with 60% of the vote.”
“So you own everything that's going to happen to your mixed-status family and your wife and your sisters and your abuela,” Reed told the Latino man.
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President-elect Donald Trump has made significant inroads into key voting blocs in the 2024 election, including minority voters. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Torres, the first openly gay Afro-Latino congressman, criticized Read Out organizers on social media.
“Stop scapegoating, shaming, and scolding working-class Latinos,” Torres told liberal hosts on the X show Monday night.
He warned that “patronizing, paternalistic progressivism will not bring working-class Latino men back to the Democratic Party; it will repel them.”
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Rep. Richie Torres of New York accused MSNBC's Joy Reid of “scapegoating” Latino men who voted for President-elect Trump. (Noam Garay/Getty Images)
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Democratic Harris supporters and traditional media continue to work on Trump's landslide victory, with Trump winning all seven battleground states and gaining approval ratings across all voting blocs, including minority voters. has improved.
