For this Latino family, voting for Trump was part of preserving their American Dream

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

70% : They remember Obama giving speeches on the campaign trail as a candidate, pledging that comprehensive immigration reform would be a top priority in his first year as president.
69% : Even with Trump making gains among Latinos, she said, in her circles at work and among friends, most supported Vice President Kamala Harris.
68% : End of carouselLatinos like the Ramirezes were an essential part of the coalition that helped Trump retake the White House in last year's election.
65% : "Trump has the majority in Congress, so let's hope he keeps his promises and does the work.
64% : Trump made especially strong inroads with young Latino men like Andy and Alex.
63% : The Washington Post is going to spend the next year following Latino voters, like the Ramirez family, to examine whether Trump can maintain their support.
59% : Maria Isabel then paused on another fairly recent memory: a video of her and Andy at a campaign rally for Donald Trump.
57% : I know what I get with Trump," Maria Isabel said.
55% : But he had a feeling that Trump was more focused on the economy than she was.
51% : But instead he focused on economic stimulus and health-care reform -- and by the time he moved to immigration reform during his administration, they said, he didn't have the political capital to make it happen.
47% : "For the United States to remain that country of dreams, she said, Trump needs to be in office.
47% : He could've done immigration reform and he didn't.
47% : 'I really wasn't 100 percent with either'While it took years for Maria Isabel and Alfonso to find themselves voting for a Republican, their sons Andy and Alex came to Trump after a few weeks of seeing ads and doing last-minute research.
47% : Even after casting his ballot for Trump, Alex admits to some degree of ambivalence about his choice.
44% : But Maria Isabel wasn't alone in her own home: Her husband and two youngest sons voted for Trump.
44% : Alfonso identified as a Democrat when he became a U.S. citizen and cast his first presidential vote for Bill Clinton.
44% : But in the final days before the election, both said the economy drove them to vote for Trump.
44% : "It's not like I'm really jumping out of my chair" because Trump won, he said.
43% : So how does she justify swinging from voting for a candidate who promised comprehensive immigration reform to one who backs mass deportations?"I've always said: I prefer a truth that hurts me instead of a lie that's only giving me hope. ...
43% : "But comparing them both, I just didn't think she was as strong as Trump was from an economics standpoint.
42% : We're tracking the people Trump has picked for key positions in his administration.
40% : She believes Trump will focus only on deporting criminals and people who don't want to work and are living on government assistance.
39% : But the Ramirez family, and other Latino voters, have stressed that their support for Trump does not guarantee long-term allegiance to the Republican Party.
35% : Trump and his allies specifically targeted Latino men, younger Latinos and Latinos who voted infrequently or not at all.
35% : "The couple argued that Trump had a successful first term and he should be judged for that, not for his rhetoric.
35% : At one point, Maria Isabel considered backing Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s third-party bid, but she settled on Trump because she felt she already knew what to expect from him.
35% : If Democrats have any chance of winning back people like them, Andy said, they should listen to why they voted for Trump and not make false assumptions.
34% : Alfonso later admitted he did think Trump would deport many undocumented immigrants -- not just criminals -- but it was necessary because too many people have crossed the border in recent years and Trump "has to defend our country.
27% : Trump has said he will execute "the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.
27% : Alfonso questioned before acknowledging that Trump, too, did not come from a political background.
26% : "Alex, 18, voted for Trump but notes that he's not nearly as interested in or plugged into politics as his parents are.
25% : As an immigrant, Alfonso admits feeling conflicted when it comes to immigration and what Trump has vowed to do.
23% : "Maria Isabel said she's been cut off by some friends for backing Trump.
23% : "Now, in the wake of the election, he has noticed the uptick in liberals criticizing people like him for backing Trump.
22% : In conversations following Trump's victory, Alfonso and Maria Isabel said they hoped that Trump would deliver on his promises of lowering costs, cracking down on illegal immigration and protecting America from foreign threats.
21% : "I feel like Trump has been branded as a racist, misogynist, everything bad -- and to vote for him is a sin," she said.
19% : By not holding a primary to replace Biden, they said, Democrats robbed Americans of a choice -- a cornerstone of U.S. democracy -- all while calling Trump a threat to democracy.
19% : "I saw a lot of ads that said, like, 'You shouldn't vote for Trump because he was a convicted felon and he has multiple charges' -- and then also some for Kamala saying that, like, 'She does not know what she's saying,'" Andy said.
15% : He doesn't believe Trump will follow through on deporting millions of undocumented immigrants, writing it off as an exaggeration and arguing that many of Trump's predecessors vowed to carry out large-scale deportations that didn't happen.
14% : No single policy proposal drew Alex to Trump or turned him off from Harris, he said.

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