Pence to help launch 'Latinos for Trump' in Miami

[left-of-center2012]

Source: The Hill

"The strong Latino support for President Trump and his policies will be instrumental in re-electing the president for a second term," Hannah Castillo, director of coalitions for the Trump campaign, said in a statement.

Vice President Mike Pence will attend a kickoff event next Tuesday in Miami for "Latinos for Trump," a campaign effort to engage Latino voters ahead of the 2020 election.

The event will take place at a Miami hotel one day before the first of two Democratic debates are held in the same city. Florida will serve as a crucial swing state in the 2020 presidential race, but the Trump campaign said "Latinos for Trump" will be a nationwide project.

Trump has drawn criticism for some of his comments and policies toward Latinos dating back to the 2016 campaign, when he asserted Mexico was sending "rapists" and bringing crime across the border. He has referred to Central American migrants as "criminals" and "thugs." He has threatened to shutter the border with Mexico and cut aid to Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras in an effort to curb the flow of migrants.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/449638-pence-to-help-launch-latinos-for-trump-in-miami

[Leghorn21]

1. These folks will be glad to help out, no doubt!

[keithbvadu2]

2. 'Republican' Latinos for Trump.

'Republican' Latinos for Trump.

Key word is missing from Pence's claim.

[hlthe2b]

3. Really, VP Miguel Peso?

[Geechie]

4. Pendejos For Trump n/t

[sandensea]

5. They of course mean radicalized Cuban exiles

I doubt too many other Florida Latinos would give these bigots the time of day.

Right-wing Cubans do know how to put on a show:

But even among their own community, they're in the minority:

(from 2015): "68% of Miami Cubans favor closer U.S.-Cuba ties."

[sandensea]

15. Cheeto got 54% of the Florida Cuban-American vote

But I doubt he'll get even 50% this year.

One reason: the more radicalized exiles, who tend to be older, are being replaced by a much more moderate - and pragmatic - younger generation.

[Iliyah]

6. I know there was a few Latino/Latina

t-rump supporters in his circle. Why not send them?

[thegoose]

7. Yeah, Dence and Dump

Two of the whitest pieces of shit in the world. That'll happen.

[OregonBlue]

8. Latinos for Trump, otherwise known as Chronic Masochists United.

[sandensea]

16. +1

They should be called LADINOS for Trump.

In colloquial Latin American Spanish, a 'Ladino' is someone who, while just as disenfranchised as most of his fellow Latinos, sells out to either the local elite (most of whom are unreconstructed fascists) or foreign interests for self-gain.

Ladinos, in colonial Spanish America, were often used by the landed elite to manipulate and/or act as finks against the community.

They were often 'not quite white' and thus also felt they needed to go out of their way in their viciousness, to get a pat on the head from landowners (who actually despised them).

This mentality still influences Latin American politics to this day, sadly - and by extension politics in some quarters in the U.S. Hispanic community.

[Judi Lynn]

21. Great hearing there is an actually name for these people. Have seen them in news photos.

They capitalize on the intense tension between the very poor, darker complected indigenous and people of mixed ancestry, and the self-designated "ruling" class, the usually purely European descended oligarchs, who seem to fear and hate the poor. Have read and heard for years the level of that kind of racism is as virulent as racism was (is?) in the U.S. Old South.

They constitute a strange part of society, terrorizing the poor, and agitating against them publicly to do things for the elites who don't want to directly involve themselves.

Thanks for pointing out there's actually a term for them. Sounds as if there's a lot of history behind that word, all bad!

[sandensea]

23. Absolutely, Judi. Race is indeed a difficult issue in Latin America.

And just as much as discrimination is a problem (as you pointed out), having people turn on each other in hopes of some elusive reward from the elites impacts the region's politics as well.

And by extension it impacts politics for right-wing Hispanics were in the U.S. - a dynamic the GOP has long exploited among 'whiter' Hispanics, as you know.

In South America, the one I've most often heard being called a Ladino, in that pejorative ('sellout') sense of the word, is Chile's President Sebastián Piñera.

Ladino manos larga, they call him - a 'long-handed Ladino', in reference to his Pinochet-era fraud at the Bank of Talca which left thousands of depositors in the lurch.

He's a real statesman compared to Macri though. Macri may not be Ladino (he's Italian and Spanish, like many Argentines) - but he certainly sold his country down the river worse than any of them.

It'll take years for Argentina to recover from this debt crisis of his.

[zonkers]

9. A comedy writer Couldn't write something this ridiculous

[salin]

10. Just a guess, but bet Pence has lots of experience with astro-turf "grass roots" groups.

Not going to fool anyone outside of the die-hard cultists.

[KG]

11. chickens for col sanders!

[Dave Starsky]

12. You beat me to it. n/t

[msongs]

13. the can call themselves latinos for deportation nt

[PSPS]

14. After 60 years, there aren't very many Batistas left alive these days.

[yaesu]

17. They may be able to hire enough actors to pull it off

if they paid $1000 an hour or so.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

18. Mike Pence is also bringing a bag of Doritos to share

He wanted to bring some Trump Tower taco bowls but this is the best he can do on short notice.

[yaesu]

19. Someone needs to start a fascists for tRump group

go to the orange nazis campaign events, pence too.

[slumcamper]

20. ROFLMAO! Perfect gig for that hypocritical boot-licking sycophant!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

22. These would be the Latinos that work at all of his Florida properties...

attend the event without pay or get fired........

If you're even 1/100th Latino heritage, attend the event without pay or get fired......

[Vegas Roller]

24. Cubans, Venezuelans and many Central American rich exiles

have always supported republicans. They are used to strongmen running countries and as long as they are killing "commies" they love it.

Fortunately, a vast majority of Latinos and Latinas are Democratic. More so after what is happening at the border and what happened in Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria.

[Hotler]

25. Why doesn't the fucking orange one go himself? i want their vote, but....

I don't want to near them, eewwwww.

[katusha]

26. and Mexico is going to pay for it! n/t

[OrlandoDem2]

27. Don't laugh. They are just trying to cut their losses. Rick Scott tweets about Venezuela nearly

day. He has gone to Puerto Rico several times. Pence reaching out is smart.

If they cut their margins, they can win.

The FL Democratic Party and our candidates need to reach out...now.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

28. How could he possibly

endure mingling with the 'dirty, inferior races?'