CNN Liberal Melts Down When Confronted With Facts by Conservative Latino

Curtis Houck
November 11th, 2024 8:22 PM

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Monday afternoon’s CNN News Central featured a surprising guest in conservative political strategist and film afficionado Giancarlo Sopo being brought into the fold to debate liberal CNN political commentator Maria Cardona on the surge in support for President-Elect Trump and the Republican Party.

Sopo came ready to rumble has he repeatedly took Cardona to task with thereality that, like the rest of the country, Hispanics are “sick and tired of D.C. elites” dictating to them what to believe or deem important.

It started off with Cardona laying down her skepticism for a pre-election poll that co-host Brianna Keilar noted found “53 percent of registered Latino voters favor[ing] Trump’s mass deportation plan,” claiming Trump’s plan was never a focus of the campaign and thus the Latinos who voted for Trump did so because of the economy and will be horrified by Trump’s immigration plans.

Sopo succinctly replied polling actually showed “immigration was actually one of the top issues” and that it was “very clear that Hispanics — no matter which polls you look at, favor a strong border policy because it’s just common sense.”

“We cannot have simply — we simply cannot have millions of people rolling around this country who have been unvetted. Many of whom have criminal backgrounds,” he continued, even predicting there wouldn’t be “any kind of major backlash to these — to any kind of border enforcement.”

Cardona promptly lost her cool, shouting at Sopo that he “know[s] so much better than what you are spouting right now” because their “community is going to go through pain” and “cruelty.”

She even went onto outline the groups of people she believes would be deported, which conveniently sorted into the left’s lazy, ugly, and almost discriminatory view of Hispanics:

Sopo finally got a word in, stating the obvious that “the Hispanic community is sick and tired of D.C. elites pulling on our heartstrings” that “have been tugged at so hard that they’ve snapped.”

 

 

“We’re sick and tired of people...so they can feel better at cocktail parties...[W]e’re telling people loud and clear, you do not speak on our behalf...[T]hese are the same people that...encouraged their party to call us Latinx. They are the same people who lobbied Joe Biden to apologize for calling Laken Riley’s murderer an illegal immigrant,” he added as Cardona tried to shout him down over his point about Riley’s alleged murderer.

While Cardona framed Latinos as at least in part riddled with identity politics, Sopo argued these so-called advocacy groups “do not speak for our community” and “are way to the left of your average Latino” because “we are worried about prosperity,” “not...about pronouns.”

Pressed by co-host Boris Sanchez on Trump increasing his Puerto Rican support, Cardona conceded “growth in the percentages of support among the Latino community for Donald Trump,” but again denigrated the I.Q. of Hispanics by lamenting they fell victim to and believed a “massive...misinformation” campaign by Trump supporters spreading “lies and conspiracy theories”:

Sopo was only given a few seconds to respond with time having run out, but he again provided the facts on this tiresome “excuse”:

 

 

I don’t think that makes any sense, especially if you’re trying to single it down to Spanish language misinformation. You know why? Because most of the Hispanics who are moving towards the GOP are English dominant. So, I think Democrats can make up that excuse every couple of cycles to make themselves feel better and save face with donors, but it’s just not the case.

To see the relevant CNN transcript from November 11, click here.

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