'How do you pay for it?': Latino politicians in Texas turning their backs on Bernie Sanders platform
by Emma Colton
| February 28, 2020 05:26 PM
Latino politicians in Texas are directing their support to 2020 Democratic candidates other than Sen. Bernie Sanders, partially because of his expensive socialist policies.
Texas congressional delegates and state legislators have mostly thrown their support behind Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and former Vice President Joe Biden instead of the Vermont senator, the Dallas Morning News reported Friday.
“If your message is ‘the economy is really good, and we’re going to completely overhaul it’ — that’s not a winner. Certainly not in the suburbs where Democrats have been making gains,†State Rep. Rafael Anchia, a Dallas Democrat who leads the Mexican American Legislative Caucus, said of Sanders.
He continued: “We picked up 12 seats in the Legislature, we’re close to speakership right now, and I think Bernie Sanders jeopardizes all that. I talk to older Latinos all the time and ... you hear from them ‘too radical.’â€
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