MSNBC guest claims Latinos 'want to be White' while discussing their shift towards GOP

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MSNBC guest Maria Hinojosa, founder of Futoro Media, claimed on Sunday that Latino voters want to be White while discussing the voting bloc's shift towards the Republican Party over the last few years.

"She has a 14-point lead but it has been shrinking after each consecutive presidential election from 2016. Why is that? Why is the Democratic share of the Latino vote shrinking?" MSNBC's Jonathan Capehart asked of Vice President Kamala Harris' lead among Latino voters.

A NBC-Telemundo poll released Sunday found that while Harris was leading Trump among Latino voters, the Democratic advantage has sunk to its lowest level in the past four election cycles.

"And what I said to you when we asked a question was, Latinos want to be White. They want to be with the cool kids," she said, adding that Latinos she's spoken with say Trump is a good businessman, in a clip flagged by NewsBusters.

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"No he's not, he had bankruptcies," she added. "But they don't want to be identified with all of those other immigrants that Donald Trump speaks so badly of, including me as a Mexican immigrant."

Hinojosa went on to say that those voters could cost Harris the election.

"But those numbers? They could cost Kamala Harris the election. Everything that I’ve been saying that Latinos could push her over the top, these are