Saying their values are no longer represented in the Democrat Party, more minority voters are switching to Republican.
When Wender Angeles arrived in the United States from Peru in 2006, he registered to vote as a Democrat because he related the party to the word “democracy.” He got involved with the party and voted for Barack Obama.
As he learned more about the two parties, he felt the Republican Party was a better fit.
“Later on, I was like, oh wait, this is not what I believe. But at the beginning, I was basically surrounded by Democrats,” Mr. Angeles told The Epoch Times in his family’s Exeter, Pennsylvania, living room.
“The Republican Party is more conservative. I am like that. I am a very traditional person. My wife and I, we basically are God’s people.”
Mr. Angeles is one among a large group of Hispanic and black voters who have moved away from the Democrat Party in the past eight years.
An April poll from The Wall Street Journal shows that 30 percent of black men in battleground states intend to vote for former President Donald Trump. Hispanic voters who lean Republican are approaching parity with those who lean Democrat.
A recent New York Times/Siena College poll indicates that the percentage of Black voters favoring President Trump over the past four years has risen by 19 points.
With his wife Leslie at his side and their four children, ages 5 to 18, listening in, Mr. Angeles, 38, said that his political shift stemmed from a desire to do what’s best for his family.
“My main thing in this world is my family. I like to take care of my family very well. I like to fight for my family. I like to think that my family, in the future, will be in a good environment and in a good community.”
Mr. Angeles works at a battery factory. On the side, he repairs and flips homes.
He compares everything in the United States to Peru, and he is troubled.
By Beth Brelje, Lawrence Wilson, T.J. Muscaro, Nathan Worcester
