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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn Western swing, Trump aims to court pivotal Latino voters
LAS VEGAS (AP) President Donald Trump on Sunday aimed for further inroads with Latinos who could prove vital in closely contested states that could determine the White House race, promoting economic gains they made before the coronavirus pandemic.
Though Trump has made scores of inflammatory and derogatory comments about Latinos, his campaign is growing confident that he has won some support that could help in Florida, Arizona and Nevada, his target this weekend. He hosted a roundtable discussion with Latinos in Las Vegas on Sunday afternoon before a nighttime rally, his first indoors since one in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was blamed for a surge of coronavirus infections.
Winning support from Latinos has been an uphill climb for Trump, whose hard-line immigration policies and sometimes virulent depiction of immigrants have alienated many Hispanics.
In the first moments of his 2016 campaign, he declared that many Mexican immigrants were rapists. He has drawn criticism for his tepid response to a hurricane that ravaged Puerto Rico, his polices to separate children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border and his efforts to dismantle an Obama-era program that allows young immigrants living in the country illegally who were brought here as children to remain in the U.S.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/on-western-swing-trump-aims-to-court-pivotal-latino-voters/ar-BB18ZwOm?li=BBnb7Kz
Maybe he can eat a few more taco bowls
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Generic Other
(28,979 posts)is not gonna be swayed by throwing paper towels, trash-talking Castro, touting his Wall, calling people rapists and thieves, throwing Dreamers under the bus, dismissing the citizenship promises made to Vets, caging babies, siccing ICE on the fields, or any of the myriad of ways Trump has shown his utter disrespect for the Latino community.
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captain queeg
(10,208 posts)All I can think is maybe some successful ones have the typical rethug attitude of I got mine, so screw you. Maybe they think poor Latinos reflect badly on them.
LeftInTX
(25,367 posts)Hillary Clinton got only 42 percent of the vote in my precinct. My precinct is Latino. You should see my Nextdoor or even the people on Facebook or who respond to news columns. Many have been in the US longer than my grandparents. My husband's family came over between the 1800s and 1910. My grandmother came here in 1926. My grandfather came here in 1910.
Thekaspervote
(32,773 posts)ItsjustMe
(11,230 posts)One of my best friends voted for Trump, he was born In Mexico.
This truck belongs to a Latino here In California.
The white sticker says Latinos For Trump
https://imgur.com/a/Xh6ADrK
JHB
(37,160 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,773 posts)They are not sounding the alarm about NV going red.