Will Hispanics support the Democrats?

0:00 Speaker 1 Sunday morning. But this is Joe itthiot.

0:03 Speaker 2 The economic developments are of the Bronx for fifteen years. That’s a long time. And the question is Joe, Sunday morning, we’re drinking our coffees.

0:16 Speaker 1 Tell us the election is in how many days? Sixteen days? Fifteen days?

0:22 Speaker 3 Well, where then is in eight days?

0:26 Speaker 1 Voting in the eight days? That’s right.

0:28 Speaker 2 People should know that that they can do that, they can pre vote. Yes, tell us about it, Joe.

0:35 Speaker 3 Well, it’s going to be up to the people. You know that just this week Donald Trump was in the Bronx sound on Castle Hill Avenue at the barbershop, mostly Puerto Rican Dominican folks. So it’s a big toss up.

0:55 And I think that the Latino vote is going to be big influence. But where do they go is the big question mark. And I think in this election it’s going to be left up to the people and we won’t know, of course, the results till after election day when the votes accounted. But everyone is courting the Latino

1:24 community for votes, not only in the presidential but in Congress. And you know, the US Senator here in New York State. So it’s it’s going to be a very interesting outcome. Joe.

1:43 Speaker 2 You’ve been around forever like I have, and you’ve been in the minority community, the Hispanic community mostly give me the pulse nationally. What do you think is going on? I was at the Al Smith dinner the other night and Kamala Harris did not show up and she sent the video that was really in subting to some of

2:06 the Catholics. And Uh, my, my, my question is the culture of being anti Christian.

2:16 Speaker 1 Judeo values is it?

2:20 Speaker 2 Is it present now at the Democratic Party and and and.

2:24 Speaker 1 There’s a lot of common sense Democrats. How do you how do you remove that?

2:29 Speaker 3 I would say to you, John that there is a big uh turnover from uh back in the days to now in the religious uh situation in the Latino community. Uh, you have a big uh Pentecostal Christian group. Uh. You know that here in Bronx County, for instance, UH Reverend Rubind Senior, a friend of ours, was instrumental in bringing

3:05 Donald Trump to Kratona Park, UH to talk to the community at large. The religious grouping out there. For instance, the Mexican community who follows the Catholic church in UH where they go to is going to be its own voting block. Then you have the Cubans, you have the Dominicans, you have all the people who are now citizens and

3:36 registered to vote. I think the biggest percentage in years that we’ve seen where all kind of religious Latino uh uh folks out there are going to cast a vote. Plus remember there’s also a lot of young people who are going to cast their vote for the first time.

4:05 So yeah, the religious situation is a factor in how folks are going to.

4:13 Speaker 2 Vote, Absolutely correct, and I feel that way. You know, we won’t know till actually the votes accounted on election day because I don’t believe in polls anymore.

4:26 Speaker 3 Joe, I’m totally with you on that each poll gives you a different number. In John, you’ve been in politics for a long long time. As a matter of fact, you ran for mayor and I was a part of you during that time. We know that you don’t follow the polls. You follow the pulse of the people by

4:51 going out there and speaking with them. When you visit the churches like you had done, when you visit community groups, you get more of the pulse of how people feel and which way they’re leaning to vote. And I think that’s where you get the real story, and like you said, we’re not going to know until after the election.

5:18 Speaker 2 Absolutely anything else you want to tell the American people on Sunday Money.

5:23 Speaker 3 Well, one of the greatest things John that you do and the program is common sense. And I think that’s what’s going to lead America to do the right thing. We are now in a society of common sense. There’s too much division out there, there’s too many ways of going which way or what way? No common sense and

5:50 bringing unity amongst all our people. Look, I have the advantage my son was as a Greek Orthodox. He was baptized in the Greek Orthodox community and in the church. And I think that’s a big thing. I have German, Puerto Rican great grandchildren. I mean, we’re now all over the place. I believe in unity. All of us are

6:22 one people. But have common.

6:25 Speaker 2 Sense absolutely, And I should have patented when I started using it a couple of years ago, but it’s too late now, and I’m glad that everybody’s using it because it’s not about being a Democrat, not about being a Republican, you know what, It’s about working hard for our city, our state, our country in common sense. Thank you so much,

6:50 Joe with you look forward to election night.

6:55 Speaker 3 All the best to you, John, and to America that we all do common sense and do the right thing.