Hispanic Male Voters Shun Kamala Harris Because They Think ‘A Woman Belongs In The Kitchen’: Radio Host

The owner of a Hispanic radio station in Pennsylvania claimed that Latino men did not vote for Vice President Kamala Harris because they have a “mentality” that says “women belong in the kitchen.”

Victor Martinez, who also hosts a show at his La Mega station in Allentown, told MSNBC on Wednesday that Latino men “wouldn’t want a woman president” — which is why they overwhelmingly voted for the eventual winner, President newly elected Donald Trump. .

“The man, he is the one, the provider. And we’re the boss, and we still, unfortunately, have a lot of Latinos with that mentality where the woman belongs in the kitchen,” Martine said during an interview with anchor Nicolle Wallace.

However, many Hispanic men in the key state, which was pivotal in Joe Biden’s 2020 victory, said the economy was the deciding factor in their switch to Trump this time.

“Prices went up, food went up, everything went up,” Miguel Garcia, who lives in North Philadelphia, told CBS News.

The NBC News and CBS News exit poll showed Harris with about 55% of the Hispanic vote in Pennsylvania, compared to roughly 45% for Trump — about 15 percentage points more than how the former president did in the state in 2020 .

There was no breakdown of the state’s Hispanic vote by gender, but the exit poll produced statewide results that showed Trump received 54% support from Hispanic men compared to 44% for Harris.

However, Martinez insisted that it was a “chauvinistic culture” in the Latino community that helped Trump pull back from his political comeback.

“It was Latino men who decided they were going to vote for Donald Trump. And I would venture to say that it is the Latino male who would not want a woman president,” Martinez said.

Trump also scored a shock victory in a Hispanic-majority Texas district that has voted Democratic for more than a century — winning Starr County with more than 57% of the vote.

Martinez said he doesn’t expect Latino men’s attitudes toward women to change.

“As far as these Latino men are concerned, I don’t think at any point in the future they’re going to vote for a female president,” he said.

Martinez said men on his radio show would swear they couldn’t accept a female leader and that he would back off by citing examples from other countries – to no avail.

“I’ve brought you audio of men calling my show and saying, ‘No, no, no, she’s not going to be respected. No, no, no. There’s no way she can handle the job.’ And I’ll argue with them on air and bring up examples of other powerful women leaders in the world, and they don’t seem to want to hear it,” he said.