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#Watch the Hispanic vote and other commentary

#Watch the Hispanic vote and other commentary

September 7, 2020 | 6:59pm

Campaign journal: Watch the Hispanic Vote

President Trump got 28 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2016, recalls The Washington Examiner’s David Drucker — but a fresh Quinnipiac poll pegs his Hispanic support now at 36 percent, and his team predicts 40 percent on Nov. 3. Republican John McCain got only 31 percent of the Hispanic vote in 2008, and Mitt Romney just 27 percent four years later. And though Hillary Clinton snagged 66 percent in 2016, Joe Biden’s share, says Quinnipiac, is stuck at 56 percent. Republicans credit Trump’s outreach to Hispanic voters for his relatively high numbers among them. And those numbers are key: Hispanic support in swing states could “push Trump over the top in a close race.”

Riot watch: Thank Trump for Saving Kenosha

“Donald Trump saved Kenosha,” declares ex-Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at The Washington Times. Local Rep. Bryan Steil, a Republican, asked Trump for assistance to restore order, and the president “immediately” had an aide contact Gov. Tony Evers, a Democrat. Alas, Evers initially didn’t return the call, and when he did, he turned down the offer. “Only after three nights of chaos and, tragically, two deaths” did Evers ­accept assistance. Things have since “calmed down,” as rioters “realize local law enforcement now has the support” it needs. Meanwhile, though, Joe Biden’s original statement on Kenosha “jumped to the conclusion that police were at fault” and failed to demand people avoid violence. Trump and Steil “passed the test.” Biden and Evers “failed.”

From the right: Trump’s Laughed-Off Warning

Just a few years ago, President Trump warned that “mobs tearing down Confederate statues wouldn’t stop there,” recall the editors of Issues & Insights. He said: “This week it’s Robert E. Lee. I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I wonder, is George Washington next week, and is it Thomas Jefferson the week after?” NPR did a “fact check” to prove Trump wrong — but now he has proved prophetic. Notably, a panel set up by Washington, DC, Mayor Muriel Bowser last week “called for removing or relocating (or ‘contextualizing’) the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial, because Washington and Jefferson have been deemed ‘persons of concern.’ ” It also pushed to scrub the likes of Ben Franklin, George Mason, Andrew Jackson, Alexander Graham Bell, Francis Scott Key and others — to be replaced by names that, as the panel puts it, “include more women, people of color and LGBTQ Washingtonians.”

Faith beat: Harris’ Threat to Traditional Believers

Joe Biden’s decision to tap Kamala Harris as his running mate has ­reminded Catholics of the California lawmaker’s “hostility toward Catholicism and her animus for Catholics whose moral lives are informed by Church teaching,” observes Kenneth Craycraft at First Things. For one thing, she sponsored a law trying to “dilute — if not neutralize — the 1993 federal Religious Freedom Restoration Act and similar legislation in about 20 states.” RFRA laws might, for example, “protect a physician who participates in public-health-reimbursement programs” from a measure requiring him to perform abortions. Harris’ philosophy subtly narrows a core First Amendment right — “the free exercise” of ­religion — to the mere “freedom to worship.” That is, she thinks believers may hold fast to church teaching in private, but not to live out their faith in public life. Such a view “is the foundation for severe restrictions on religious exercise.”

Culture critic: Winnie’s Favorite Bubbles

“The subject of champagne is surrounded by myth, guarded by romance and festooned with exaggeration,” rhapsodizes Roger Kimball at Spectator USA. The story goes “that champagne was invented by a Benedictine monk named Dom Pérignon in 1697. ‘Come quickly, I am tasting the stars!’ he is said to have exclaimed upon first sipping his concoction.” But sparkling wines “were being made 150 years earlier near Carcassonne by other monks” just by “adding a bit of sugar to wine.” Kimball’s favorites include “Pol Roger Cuvée Sir Winston Churchill, in homage to Winnie, who liked the vintage Pol Roger.” The namesake was created “a decade after Churchill’s death” and “first released to a grateful world in 1984.” “Yes, the bubbles are CO2, but can you think of a more agreeable way to expand your carbon footprint?”

— Compiled by The Post Editorial Board

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