“As unique as tacos for breakfast”, with this phrase referring to the diversity of the Latin American people in the United States Jill Biden she ended up at the center of a heated controversy from which she came out by making a public apology to the interested parties. Just on the day of the visit to the White House for Mexican president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The gaffe occurred during the first lady’s speech in San Antonio, Texas, at the UnidosUs conference, a major US NGO – traditionally close to Democrats – that wages battles for the rights of the Hispanic community and migrants in the US.
Jill Biden praised the organization of the event for realizing that “the diversity of the community, as distinct as the bodegas in the Bronx, as beautiful as the Miami blooms and as unique as the breakfast tacos here in San Antonio, is your strength.” The reaction of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (Nahj) was immediate. “We are not tacos,” replied the association. “No wonder Hispanics are fleeing the Democratic Party,” he tweeted Andy BiggsRepublican elected in Arizona, also referring to the recent Quinnipiac poll which shows that currently only 26% of Hispanics have a positive opinion of the Biden administration, down from 55% last year.
The first lady intervened on the case through a tweet from her spokesperson Michael La Rosa explaining that Jill Biden “apologizes for her words that they only wanted to express pure admiration for the Hispanic community”.