As of noon time, CST, only the Associated Press has allocated Arizona's 11 electoral votes to Biden. MSNBC & CNN have not. My spouse and I are political junkies, so we are closely monitoring the process. We have had little sleep, but we are both at our respective jobs working as usual with the prospect of changing who will be our next POTUS looming in the background, per se.
I want to add that the Latinx community (young and old) in Arizona are awesome. The younger Latinx community is also making fantastic strides in Texas. I believe that Arizona Latinos have had it way worse for a longer time and are sick and tired of all the maltreatment and oppression by their white counterparts and the abhorrent laws that have been enacted to keep Latinos down and "in their place" (I call bullshit). The Texas Latino community is kind of spoiled compared to Arizona. Conversely, the Texas Latino community has not had to put up with the likes of SB1070 (Arizona's "show me your papers" state bill), which was thankfully ended in 2016, six years after it's evil inception in 2010. The Texas Latino community did not have to suffer under the likes of the most racist governor of all time: Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer - and all the wrongdoings she did to undocumented and documented immigrants and Latino citizens. The Texas Latino community did not have endure the bullshit, cowardly, and hateful actions of one Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio. Nope. The older Latino community in Texas (including Florida) has not been as mistreated as our brothers and sisters in Arizona. The Texas Latino community (including Florida) are guilty of cowardice in voting for trump. The Texas older Latinos want to fit in with a crowd that might accept their vote but will never accept the color of their skin much less accept them as equals. The Texas older Latinos (including Florida) blame a fear of socialism for not voting Democrat; the idiotic fear of socialism that trump convinced them they would be subjected to if Biden won the presidency. I might be able to give the Floridian older Latinx crowd a break of sorts for fearing socialism since many of them have lived under socialist rule before coming to the United States, but at the same time, they should know what socialism really looks like, and it isn't Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. The Texas older Latinos (including Florida) should be ashamed for not having done their homework and falling for the trump bully pulpit.
Biden is no more a socialist than trump is a Christian.
So, once again, kudos to the younger generation of Latinx voters for doing their part, especially in Arizona. My heart breaks for all of us Latinos who worked so hard to overcome republican rule - shame on those Latinos who stood in our way.
They do NOT deserve to be called Latinos.
Update: Wisconsin and Michigan were called for Biden earlier today.
