The majority of the Latino community voted for Trump but President-elect Joe Biden needs to appeal to the largest minority group as he enters the White House.

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The Latino community is the second-largest voting bloc and the largest minority group in the country. The recent election has proved how this minority group can help candidates. The presidential election became a reminder that the Latino community must be valued.

Gaining the support of the Latino community who voted for Pres. Trump will be a great challenge for President-elect Joe Biden and the Democratic Party.

Even though many Latinos and Latinas voted for Biden in urban areas, many in the rural areas voted for Trump.

Latino advocacy groups and Texas Democrats explained how the Biden administration can gain the support and trust of the majority of the Latino community in the Rio Grande Valley.

This is the chance of the Democratic Party to show what they can offer to the largest minority group in the country.

Texas Democratic Party Chair Gilberto Hinojosa said, "I think there's just a lot of initiatives that the administration can take to start getting back the confidence of Latinos in South Texas."

It can be recounted that Pres. Trump dominated in South Texas and got the support of Latino voters.

According to KXAN, an affiliate news outlet of NBC, Hinojosa said that immigration is not only the issue of the Latino community. This was his response after he was asked how the national Democrats will win over the entire Latino community.

Domingo Garcia, president of the League of United Latin American Citizens, also supported this.

"Latinos in semi-rural areas, like in McAllen and Laredo, and in little towns, like Raymondville, can be more conservative and have the same values actually, especially in social-cultural values in terms of supporting the police, supporting the military."

Garcia also added that the idea of defunding the police did not even resonate with the Latino community in South Texas. This is because many sheriffs in the area are Latinos. There are many Latinos also in law enforcement and customs and immigration.

Joe Biden's campaign aims to move away from fracking and inch toward renewable energy resources. But this did not sit well with the majority of the Latino community. Hinojosa added that most of the workers in the oil and gas industry are coming from the largest minority group.

"Our party is extremely environmentally conscious, we want to fight climate change. But we also need to recognize these jobs, and this put food on the table for Texans. And without jobs, you know, they can't pay their mortgage in their house or their car payments or put gas in their car, put food on the table, buy clothes for their children," Hinojosa explained.

This means that President-elect Joe Biden needs to be careful in deciding towards this shift because this might affect the majority of the Latino community. Biden needs to assure that Latinos will still have a job when the shift happens.