officially the country's president elect beating a vice President, Kamala Harris and Tuesday's election.

His victory came after securing support from voters in key battleground states.

That includes winning over number of Latino men who have historically back the Democratic Party and here to share their reactions are Jose Sanchez Molina, communications and political consultant previously served as deputy press secretary for Governor JB Pritzker and Chuck of Non this chairman of the Chicago Republican Party in former detective, the Chicago Police Department.

Thank you both for joining us.

I want to start off, Jose.

You know, what was your initial reactions when Trump won the president-elect?

>> I was pretty surprised.

But I think, you know, when I first came on the thing I said that the biggest concern for Latinos was the cost living and how quickly it was rising rent, groceries and health care.

We're at at the top of the list.

1, 2, 3, in that order.

And I think voters decided was that they choose a president elect Trump over a vice president.

Harris.

>> What do you check your city where to watch party?

Yeah, we >> Optimistic cautiously optimistic.

But as the night wore went on, we just were really celebratory.

Of course, you know.

>> And I do have to ask is a retired TPD detective.

What are your thoughts in America electing the first president convicted of multiple felony charges?

Yeah.

I mean, >> those were political.

>> Prosecutions.

So we feel that that was completely motivated.

>> All by politics.

>> And Jose, according to an exit poll conducted by Edison Research across 10 key states, including all the battlegrounds, 55% of Latino men voted for Trump compared to 38% of Latinos.

Why do you think he pulled better numbers with the demographic than he did back in 2020 campaign?

>> Well, I think one thing that we have to acknowledge is that Vice President Harris only had about 3 months to really roll out her campaign president elect Trump has been at this for almost 10 years now getting his message out.

One of the things that I think he did a good job of saying twisting the truth a little bit and trying to trick those nostalgia and saying I still have the greatest economy.

I still have the greatest economy.

And at some point people start to believe it.

But again, I think especially with men, they're struggling.

Their pockets are hurting and they really want someone that's make their lives better in that way.

>> Check your shaking your head.

Yeah.

You have some thoughts.

Yeah, he's absolutely wrong.

Other Latino men were smart, right?

We know what what we're voting for and Donald Trump projects a strong leader and that's what this country needs.

Strong leadership.

We have wars going on around the world.

We had a terrible economy.

We had a border where we have an invasion going So we needed a strong leader.

And you know what?

We're American first and we support Donald Trump.

>> And Jose, going back to last time we spoke, you said mess.

talked about messages about making home part, talking about home purchases, more affordable, helping entrepreneurs start.

Small businesses were resonating with Latino workers.

But the numbers show Harris only one 52% of the Latino vote well below the 64%.

Democrats have needed in the past again.

Where do you think she fell to reach them?

>> I think the thing that she could have improved a little bit on is really separating yourself President Biden.

I think the this election was really a referendum on the decisions that he's made time and time again.

The president said that the economy was really good.

The things are getting better, but that's not what people felt when they would buy milk when they were looking to purchase a vehicle or a home.

And I think some of the policy proposals that Vice President Harris had would have addressed But at the same time, didn't do a good job of completely separate yourself from.

>> And Trump's tax policies have a large focus on catering to corporations and the wealthy.

He's promised to lower his promise to lower corporate tax income income tax to 15% from 21%.

With your concerns about America's economy.

How will a plan like this help lower middle class families?

>> This is going to really improve our economy because, you know, if you look back, he was already an office.

Once he has a track record.

We know the years 2017, 18, 19, every demographic was increase wages growth.

I mean, we were really our economy was really rolling good in this country.

So we expect the same.

We really good economic growth and job increases here in America.

Under Donald Trump.

>> And Trump has talked about multiple times that he plans to carry one of the largest deportation operations in American history.

Chuck, seeing as America relies on a low-cost workforce and immigrant workers.

How will this help the U.S. maintain a sustainable economy?

Yeah, well, he does do that.

Yeah.

I mean, we're we're for immigrants, right?

We we we love immigrants.

We want immigrants, but we want them to come here.

>> The right way we need.

We need organize immigration system, something that works.

And right now we have a broken immigration system >> and we have an invasion that took place it's unsustainable.

So weak.

We do need to deport people that they have to come here abide by our laws.

Every nation has laws on the books and you have to follow.

What about the people been here for more than 30 years here?

>> For for more than 30 years living here Illinois.

More than 30 yr.

Yes, where they call home while I'm not sure.

But the beginning with the deportations is going to start with that.

The illegal immigrant that is a criminal.

We have plenty of them here that are criminals.

I worked in law enforcement for 28 years and we have plenty that are not obeying our laws.

And guess what saying targeted yes.

What it you what is your response to that?

Jose?

>> I our police to a good job of arresting criminals.

So if there's any immigrants that you know, committing crimes that are arrested, jailed and then deported.

I think the way that you improve people's lives is not by conducting rates that separate families and not setting a precedent where you begin to trigger things that were happening 10, 15, 20 years ago where police were deporting people for running over stop signs to do think that's going to cause different type of chaos.

I think it will cause chaos.

I think it'll destabilize the economy.

And I it's not a good way to people ought check your saying that it's about going after criminals.

What about the families who are scared to face deportation families being separated?

Yeah.

You don't have to separate families.

Whole families should.

>> The port should self deport if you're here illegally, family should self deport White.

Put your family through that.

Go back to your country of origin.

Apply the right way.

Come here the right way.

We have laws.

>> And Jose, Y, do you think again, there's a shift among the group of Latinos adapting to this idea of moving into this more anti-immigration rhetoric.

>> I think people are really hurting at home and I think this is the biggest thing that was surprising for me is I even Latino men who, you know, have family members that are undocumented.

Maybe rationalize saying, well, they're not talking about my family, but at the end of the day, when I'm trying to buy a car, it's a lot more expensive.

And I think really the reality is a lot of people are feeling like the American dream is really not within their reach anymore and out of anger or maybe they responded that way and want to want vote for for President Trump because he has tapped into that anger.

He has been able to say I'm your to make these great for you again.

And they're willing to risk that.

>> And, Chuck, it's no secret that Trump's campaign has use hateful rhetoric.

He's had supporters come to his rallies and referred to Puerto Rico as garbage.

He himself has called immigrants animals called Vice President Harris a dei higher and made baseless claims about Haitians in Ohio.

Now has now that he's won.

How should he promote unity?

Yeah, I would that look like I don't agree with a lot of what you said there.

I think it's false.

>> And see, here's the problem.

The media has not learned a lesson in this.

The media's been wrong for years and they were wrong on polling.

And that's where the American Indian or very upsetting that.

We said, though, right I did not say those things and that wasn't him.

That was a comedian at an event.

So it was not did not come from Donald Trump.

So you need to be honest with the American people.

And that's what we're seeing right now.

The American people rejected the media trying to push for Harris and the media is the biggest loser in this whole thing because they lost credibility in this race and how sure she paid continue to promote unity.

How would you say that would look like he listened?

He has a mandate.

He won all 7 swing states.

He won the popular vote.

He won the Electoral College.

We won back the Senate.

We have a mandate.

We're going to do the things that he promised to do.

And we're going bring back prosperity to America and make America great again.

What is your reaction to that?

>> I Republicans have to deliver to make people's lives better.

I think what we learned was that Latinos are not Democrat.

They're not Republican.

They're very independent across a lot of races where people voted for President Trump.

They also did not vote for Republicans down the ticket ballot.

So what that says to me is they're very much in the middle.

They want elected officials to deliver on what they want.

And at the end of the day, it's just making the dream.

The American dream more