Trump makes pitch to Hispanics
Source: MSN/The Hill
Donald Trump is making his most visible play for Hispanic support yet, meeting Saturday with a group he calls the "National Hispanic Advisory Council For Trump."
The Republican National Committee (RNC) will be joining the GOP presidential nominee at Trump Tower in Manhattan to meet with "business, civic, and faith-based Hispanic leaders have travelled from twelve states," according to an RNC statement.
RNC chairman Reince Priebus said in the statement that the convening of Latino leaders at Trump Tower "is just one component of our expansive effort to engage the Hispanic community."
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After alienating many Mexicans at the outset of his campaign by saying that their country was sending rapists and drug dealers across the U.S.-Mexico border; Trump also received criticism for tweeting a photo of a Taco Bowl with the caption, "I love Hispanics!"
Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-makes-pitch-to-hispanics/ar-BBvQw6F
Hey, all those remarks about immigrants being terrorists and rapists and a Mexican American judge being unable to perform the duties of his office because he was a Mexican? Trump was being sarcastic!
RKP5637
(67,108 posts)stopbush
(24,396 posts)are one-day photo ops. Nothing more, nothing less.
Where is the commitment to minorities to be found in the R platform? Where is the understanding of minorities to be found in any of Trump's many pronouncements made to date?
It's like they're checking off the boxes - get the meetings on tape ONCE, then cut and dice that tape into a couple dozen different TV ads in hopes of making it look like Trump abd the Rs actually care.
Man, they think we're all stupid.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)We will all see you driven from the national stage. Even the drooling evangelicals know what your doing.
forest444
(5,902 posts)Unfortunately for Trump, very few of them are that impressionable - far from it.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Not
forest444
(5,902 posts)The Colombian lady didn't charge Trump for this nearly as much as Melania.
rug
(82,333 posts)forest444
(5,902 posts)Holy rollers are like the GOP itself: a testament to the amount of medieval credulousness in this country.
Incidentally, I knew Benny Hinn slightly. I lived for a few years in Laguna Beach, CA - where Hinn lives. He had a massive thug for a bodyguard that he took with him everywhere. Nobody bothered him, of course, except a few of the local homeless who had heard of him and who hounded him on sight to "cure" whatever ailments afflicted them.
A greasy midget with a huge, Idi Amin-like goon shadowing him; Hinn's fat, ill-bred children running around; and one or more these poor souls tailing behind, asking for a "miracle." Not a pretty sight.
rug
(82,333 posts)Even Benny Hinn is unsure about trump.
forest444
(5,902 posts)You probably won't find more intense hatred of Hispanics in general, and Mexicans in particular, than in the Republican areas of Orange County (who, of course, are just crazy about Trump). Hinn, clever businessman that he is, knows not to get on their bad side.
Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)dhill926
(16,337 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)More like in-reach.
And LOL that only 12 states are represented.
bucolic_frolic
(43,161 posts)won't vote for him
These 23 Hispanics won't be able to raise 300 votes
This is like the movie "Viva Max!" for Trump
jpak
(41,758 posts)yup
mucifer
(23,542 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,799 posts)awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)for every Hispanic that attends his rally. He loves Hispanics.
Cartoonist
(7,316 posts)Of whom?
Tempest
(14,591 posts)Coyotl
(15,262 posts)Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Thats as Funny as a Chicken joining the Colonel Sanders Fan Club.!
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)malcolmboeing
(23 posts)Just because you are an immigrant doesn't mean you support illegal immigration.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)Or building a giant wall between the US and Mexico.
Trump won't find much support for either of those positions beyond his core of right-wing haters.
world wide wally
(21,743 posts)After the man's kindness toward it, the snake bites him anyway and explains it by saying, "what did you expect? I am a snake."
BumRushDaShow
(128,963 posts)and his father, he basically torpedoed the only Hispanic group (Cubans) who were attempting to stick with the GOP.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)GOP helps assemble national Hispanic council for Trump
A pair of Telemundo and Univision polls last month showed record-low Hispanic support for Trump. A weekly Florida International University-Adsmovil tracking poll showed Friday that Trump's support is below 13 percent nationally.
"He is unlikely to have any impact on our Latino numbers in the near future and if you examine the past 18 weeks, it is unlikely that he will manage to recover even his highest score of 17.3%," Professor Eduardo Gamarra wrote.
In contrast, Trump's Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton, has maintained "an iron clad grip" among Latinos of more than 70 percent support since May.
Meanwhile, Trump is alienating his fervently racist base. Republicans had already alienated Latinos with voter suppression laws.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)Hola, yo soy muy pendejo.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)" Mr. Trump would you like some pendejo?"
Trump: " Oh yea, I love Hispanics"
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)with a side of hijo de puta
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Why he didn't know this is mind boggling. They told him you have to beg for their votes. lol
Omg he thinks cause he has a so called advisory council ...roflmao. he think were stupid
Alkene
(752 posts)doesn't make you look healthier, Donald.
Iggo
(47,552 posts)Peregrine Took
(7,413 posts)How dumb does he think people are?
79 days to go.
truthisfreedom
(23,147 posts)Last stop, abortion doctors.
TheBaculumKing
(102 posts)Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump plans to present an immigration plan in Colorado Thursday that will include legalizing millions of undocumented immigrants, according to three people present at a meeting the candidate attended Saturday with Hispanic leaders at Trump Tower in New York.
Warpy
(111,256 posts)It's not fair, it's just as bad as the reverse happening to us during Stupid's years in office and besides, I want to know who the assholes are and they do love to advertise, so I'm at peace with it.
I also haven't seen any yard signs, although I've seen a few Clinton signs here and there.
I don't think anybody's thinking about the election right now, beyond hating Trump's guts. This part of the country doesn't get particularly active until mid September, at the earliest.
lark
(23,099 posts)This could be like his talk on AA relations given to an all white audience?