Posted on 09/20/2015 4:19:38 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Hispanic activists have two words for Donald Trump — thank you.
“I think the greatest thing to ever happen to the Hispanic electorate is a gentleman named Donald Trump, he has crystalized the angst and anger of the Hispanic community,” U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President & CEO Javier Palomarez told POLITICO in an interview. “I think that we can all rest assured that Hispanics can turn out in record numbers.”
Trump has rankled the Hispanic community from Day One of his presidential run when he called many illegal Mexican immigrants “rapists” and drug peddlers during his rambling announcement speech in June. Since then, he’s driven the GOP field further right on immigration issues, in part with his aggressive proposal to have Mexico pay for a wall along the border with the U.S. and to deport 11.3 million undocumented immigrants in short order. While many activists find his comments downright offensive, they also see an opportunity. Trump has managed to get Latinos engaged with the 2016 race, and activists plan to exploit that to the fullest extent possible.
“He really is just outrageous, he’s built his entire campaign on attacking our community and really playing to the worst element of American society,” said José Calderón, president of the Hispanic Federation, a nonprofit membership organization. “In some ways, he’s helping us out, the base is energized —I think people are really eager to stand up and say this is not who we are and show that through our electoral process.”
Calderón said in nonelection years, the Federation, which represents 100 community-based organizations across the country and is leading voter outreach efforts, can register about 25,000 Hispanics and on election years it’s about 60,000. But with Trump’s comments driving people to the polls, Calderón believes they can register even more.
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Bull. He has a lot of support from LEGAL hispanics.
Trump draws 20,000 to a rally and 200 protesters.
I’ll take that ratio on any day but especially election day.
I thought Trump was polling very well with Hispanics.
Yep.
GRATE!
LEGAL or ILLEGAL?
The LATTER are NOT SUPPOSED to vote!
SEVERAL of the FORMER SUPPORT TRUMP!
Whistling through the graveyard... On the border, no less.
We have a fraud in the White House. Fraudulent voting will be a biggie in the next election. Time for all states to lawyer up.
Hispanics have their panties in a twist cause them Muslims are gettin’ all the attention the last few days.
Who is next? Midgets? Hillbillies?
Pollutico vomitus.
He is. These are the leftists and DemocRats.
There is no such thing as the Hispanic electorate. If reporters were to talk to citizens who are from somewhere other than Mexico and ask them what they think about Donald Trump and I'd bet they'd be gobsmacked by the responses.
Actually, Trump is sending Latin American, US permanent residents to get their citizenship to vote for Trump. I personally know of this happening.
Legal immigrants do not appreciate illegals in any form. These illegals were all the riff-raff their countries had to deal with.
In case you all haven't noticed, all these news websites "employ" writers and "editors" no more than 5 years out of college. I doubt they pay them at all.
If we stopped giving them website views by posting their crap articles, they'd probably go out of business.
I wonder how many LEGAL Hispanics appreciate that Trump is 100% right about the crimes their ILLEGAL countrymen bring into their newly adopted country....
Let’s drive whites to the polls. They’re people too.
And I am starting to think the people who post these articles here are paid to do so.
I am definitely one.
Trump will drive huge numbers of illegals to the polls to vote illegally. What?
Oh, that’s what the dems are saying. And why not? The democrats get the dead vote too and that’s illegal. At least non-citizens voting for benefits that I pay taxes for are going to waste on a living person. right?
Yes, his comment will drive angry voters to the polls.
Just not the kinds Polutico implies.
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