Trump’s attempts to win over Latinos all but over after ‘Hispanic outreach’ effort implodes: report

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory/BuzzFeed

BRAD REED
04 AUG 2016 AT 10:41 ET

There was never much of a chance that Donald Trump could win over a sizable portion of Hispanic voters, no matter how many photos he posted of himself eating taco bowls. All the same, a new report claims that Trump’s planned Hispanic outreach campaign has already crashed and burned.

According to BuzzFeed, a Trump campaign official recently told off radio personality Ileana Garcia, who formed the Latinas for Trump group and who said she planned to serve as the Trump campaign’s national Latino spokeswoman. The Trump campaign was apparently not happy that she said she would serve as a spokeswoman before anything was finalized, and a Florida campaign official eventually told her to “do whatever the f*ck you want” because “I don’t know what I’m going to do with you, anyway.”

Additionally, Trump’s plan to do a “Hispanic engagement tour” have been tossed aside after a series of cancelled events with Hispanic business leaders.

“I think they couldn’t get enough people to come to the event because their support among Hispanic voters is 14%, what do they expect?” Artemio Muniz, a Texas Republican who opposes Trump, tells BuzzFeed.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/trumps-attempts-to-win-over-latinos-all-but-over-after-hispanic-outreach-effort-implodes-report/

[4lbs]

1. LOL. Oh, and by the way, "Taco bowls" aren't real Mexican food.

I live in San Diego, California, and no real Mexican restaurant has taco bowls on the menu.

Taco Bell and Chipotle are not real Mexican restaurants.

The "mom and pop" style taco shops are the "real" Mexican food places.

[cannabis_flower]

6. Not defending Trump

but taco bowls or taco salads are widely sold in Tex-Mex restaurants in Texas. And while they aren't Mexican, they are Tex-Mex and most of the Mexican-American voters here in the US aren't technically Mexican either, in the sense that they we're born here and are American, like 9th generation American Eva Longoria who famously said "we didn't cross the border, the border crossed us. "

[Demit]

11. Sounds like you're saying Tex-Mex is its own cuisine.

[cannabis_flower]

12. Yes

Absolutely. And I think that there are way better things to knock Trump for than eating Taco Bowls.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tex-Mex

[PJMcK]

28. It is an endless list

The unending buffet of idiocy, bigotry and ignorance that serves forth from the creature known as Donald Trump provides a daily schmorgasborg of items with which to criticize him.

[MicaelS]

38. Of course it is.

That's why it's called Tex-Mex as opposed to just Mexican food.

[Demit]

39. And, therefore, taco bowls aren't exactly Mexican cuisine.

A point which the person I was replying had some disagreement with.

[HockeyMom]

16. Ropa Vieja in South Florida

Cuban. Not all Hispanics and their food are Mexican and tacos. Look up the translation, but don't take it literally.

I have not heard that Rubio (Cuban heritage) will be campaigning for Trump in Florida.

[eissa]

22. I'm headed down there in March and the thought of eating this

is making me smile right now. I'm a California girl through-and-through, but I gotta say, I love me some Miami

[kestrel91316]

32. We must have a small Cuban community here in Los Angeles because just down the street is a Cuban

Restaurant that is always just packed with likely Cubans. LOVE their food.

http://www.versaillescuban.com/menu-item/appetizers

[awoke_in_2003]

40. I have a Cuban sandwich shop

a mile from my house. I had a Cuban and a cafe con leche for lunch before work today. If anyone is in the Fort Worth area, look up the Yelp's page for Cucos. Excellent.

[cannabis_flower]

36. Well that's true

but I never implied that all Hispanics are Mexican, just that criticizing Trump for eating Taco Bowls is silly. In fact my husband is Honduran/Colombian and grew up in Panama.

[awoke_in_2003]

37. But then to end the tweet with

"I love Hispanics"- this is where I really started to believe that he is desperately trying to get out of this.

[Mc Mike]

8. I always loved Alberto's and Roberto's carne asada burritos. nt.

[sdfernando]

20. There are so many of these taco shops around with

variations on Roberto's...I've taken to calling them all just "Beto's"

[Mc Mike]

24. I just remember those two mini chains, in the mid-'80s.

The Alberto's on College and University was closest, but remember seeing a bunch of each of them, around town. There was a smaller outfit called Las Palmas, then, too.

Great food, great price.

[sdfernando]

30. There were a bunch I used to go to back in the 80s

lived in South Bay then so a lot of Mexican food around....Roberto's, Alberto's, Los Panchos were the biggies but also remember Alibertos' Rigobertos, Cotijas....later we got the bigger chains like MXN (not as good) and Sombrero (not good either).

[Mc Mike]

35. Los Panchos was the third name I was looking for. Hazy memory on my part.

Any of those three had great food.

[kestrel91316]

33. Here in the San Fernando Valley it's Carnitas Michoacan

[denbot]

13. One of our kids always orders the "Taco Bowl" from our local taco joint.

What I get her is a Delux Tostada. Authentic Mexican, maybe not, but regional yes. Texas, New Mexico, and California all have regional variations on Mexican Food.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. Selling chili is so much easier than selling a toxic presidential candidate

with the chili the indigestion is over in 24 hours

[DinahMoeHum]

21. +1

n/t

[eissa]

3. Bienvenidos to our newly registered Latino voters!

Y gracias senor Trump para todos los nuevos votantes

[KingCharlemagne]

9. Pinche Trump! :) - nt

[eissa]

14. I know, what a pendejo!

I love that this is making me pull out my high school Spanish!

[aggiesal]

25. El Pendejo Trump ...

What a great nickname.

[awoke_in_2003]

41. In second semester Spanish

at my local CC, the professor either called you the Spanish equivalent of your name, or asked if we had used another name in 1st semester. I hadn't, and Owen isn't popular outside of Wales. He knew my wife was Mex-Am, so he asked me what she called me. I jokingly said "pendejo"- well, needless to say, it stuck

[sakabatou]

4. Considering he's been saying racist things about Latinos

why does he even try?

[PatSeg]

5. How many Taco Bowl Salads

can the poor man eat???

[Mc Mike]

7. 30% lower than l'il bush's Hispanic support.

15-17% lower than the losing candidacies of Romney and McCain.

[underpants]

10. Well, at least they tried something

I mean, they could be hiring operatives for battleground states but instead they are trying to woo Hispanics.

[BadGimp]

15. #TrumpFail

yet another example of #TrumpFail

[lunatica]

17. But, but, but (sputter...) Messicans love him!

You wouldn't believe!

[Ilsa]

18. He'll need to eat a taco bowl full of jalapeños

before I believe he gives a rat's butt about latinos.

[Ilsa]

19. So who is this mysterious campaign official?

Trump only has, what, five people working?

[left-of-center2012]

23. Trump, lovin' him some Mexican

It doesn't look like he actually ate any.

[MFM008]

26. I want that Taco bowl

for some strange reason it didnt work with Latinos.
Wonder why.

[MichiganVote]

27. Estupido

[Thinkingabout]

29. Trump has berated Latino from the start, I am not Latino but he is offensive to

Many people so much which would cause me not to vote for him even if he was the DNC nominee. His childish behavior does not have a place in the WH nor any other place.

[unitedwethrive]

31. I am Hispanic, and not a single one of my relatives is planning to vote for him.

[Thinkingabout]

34. It is music to my ears, I have not found one issue I agree with him.

[Quantess]

42. Classy!