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The McCain Flap Might Ruin Trump's Poll Numbers, but the Real Damage Was Already Done
Slate ^ | July 19, 2015 | Juliana Jiménez Jaramillo

Posted on 07/19/2015 8:01:16 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump’s insult of John McCain’s war record on Saturday has led to nearly universal condemnation from his Republican primary adversaries. More importantly, it might also be the well-anticipated moment when Trump’s popularity in the GOP race comes crashing down. Whatever happens next in the campaign, though, it’s fair to say that the damage to Trump’s national personal standing and miniature media empire has already been done. That happened the instant he entered the race by attacking Mexican immigrants as “criminals” and “rapists,” and it happened thanks largely to an unprecedented grassroots response by Latino-Americans, Latino immigrants, and the broader Latino world. Whether or not Trump’s poll numbers return to earth because of the McCain flap, Trump’s entertainment properties don’t ever seem likely to recover from the damage caused by the united Latino response to his blatant xenophobia.

Trump’s remarks weren’t the first time Trump or a high-profile politician had made racist comments about Latinos. Trump himself has blamed crime on blacks and Hispanics before. But this time Latinos were quicker to unite and more effective to protest than ever before. Trump’s outsized personality probably had something to do with the passion of the response. But this became a watershed moment for the Hispanic community mostly because of how the outrage was manifested through social media, and how Hispanic mainstream media reacted to this discontent.

In Latin America, politicians and celebrities channeled Hispanics’ collective indignation....

(Excerpt) Read more at slate.com ...


TOPICS: Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2016election; aliens; amnesty; illegals; immigration; latinos; mccain; trump
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Remember the A-Team ?

I love it when a plan comes all together.


21 posted on 07/19/2015 8:20:53 PM PDT by American Constitutionalist (BeThe aKeystone Pipe lik Project : build it already Congress)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The United States of America, the heart and soul of the nation, the great Silent Majority who have bit shit on for over 20 years now, particularly the last six, with people from all talks of life, many keeping their mouths shut, but their hearts burning for revolution, are cheering this on silently. And they are a massive, absolutely incredible untapped electoral resource which can create a middle class uprising against the elites in both parties the likes you have never seen. It is just SEETHING there, and if you don't know it, if you don't talk in the coffee shops or hear it in the street or in family discussions, you simply are not in the United States.

It is the MOTHER OF ALL BACKLASHES and Trump is smart enough to tap into it.

He gets it.

All the back benchers and 1%ers in the polls and RNC officialdom will try to cut him and Cruz off at the knees but it is going to backfire spectacularly.

Really folks, something like this does not come by in American politics once every 25 years or so. Wallace was the first phenomenon (preceded by Doug MacArthur), then Bobby Kennedy, followed by Ross Perot. These chucks are never going to know what hit them. They are all walking into the trap. It is most amusing to observe.

22 posted on 07/19/2015 8:22:07 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo (I'll support the GOP primary candidate the mainstream media and lib Dems hate/fear the MOST)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

We’re not interested in the Huckster.
Or opinions from Berlin.


23 posted on 07/19/2015 8:24:52 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Make that the angry gay bar.


24 posted on 07/19/2015 8:28:08 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Slate is another Marxist government propaganda outlet. Did they talk about Martin O’Malley’s speech today where he attempted to be inclusive of white people and stated that “All Lives Matter!” He was booed by the group and he had to apologize! So who are the real racists? Those Marxists on the left and their media outlets! If they keep generating their hate they will create what they are looking for


25 posted on 07/19/2015 8:28:28 PM PDT by Lopeover (My vote is valuable, you must earn it.)
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To: All

Author, Jaramillo, wouldn’t you know.


26 posted on 07/19/2015 8:30:36 PM PDT by BeadCounter
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To: AmericanInTokyo

Backlash, outstanding!


27 posted on 07/19/2015 8:30:37 PM PDT by Lopeover (My vote is valuable, you must earn it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy is out of touch with reality.

Trump’s numbers are going up.


28 posted on 07/19/2015 8:38:12 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Not worth my time to read or to care what they think.


29 posted on 07/19/2015 8:38:38 PM PDT by Mozilla
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Trump needs to start running national political ads detailing the unreported shortcomings of Zero and the RINOs. Air that dirty laundry Donald!


30 posted on 07/19/2015 8:40:11 PM PDT by Bobalu (If we live to see 2017 we will be kissing the ground)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

A very clear distinction which the left simply refuses to understand.


31 posted on 07/19/2015 8:44:13 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It’s going to be interesting to see what the Treasonists reactions will be when Trumps poll numbers go even higher after this.


32 posted on 07/19/2015 8:45:41 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Maybe, but at least he isn’t kissing the butt of the elitists and traitors who have been flushing this country down the toilet since 1987 when Reagan left office.


33 posted on 07/19/2015 8:47:26 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: GrandJediMasterYoda

I mean 1989.


34 posted on 07/19/2015 8:48:17 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: AmericanInTokyo

My representative had posted a pro McCain post. Of 3 dozen posts only a few were pro McCain. Most exposed him and threatened to pull all support from the congressman. Make story short he has pulled the thread

Fox news FB post similar style posts—very few supporting mcCANE Many veterans, many links of videos and articles stating facts. All calling the senator out.
Most Supporting Trump


35 posted on 07/19/2015 8:49:05 PM PDT by hoosiermama (Obam5a: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then or now?;)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

36 posted on 07/19/2015 8:49:51 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Bobalu

Exactly. This guy is just getting started. What the libs and RINOs don’t understand is Trump hates nothing more than losing, he will never allow that to happen, no matter what it takes. All these candidates have no idea what they are getting themselves into against this guy. He has the BEST people in the world working for him, people who will absolutely eviscerate anybody who gets in his way. Rubio, Jeb, Hillary, have absolutely no chance whatsoever. They are already finished before they even began and they know it. They are like flapping fish out of water trying to wrestle Godzilla.


37 posted on 07/19/2015 8:59:17 PM PDT by GrandJediMasterYoda (B. Hussein Obama: 19 acts of Treason and counting.)
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To: Vigilanteman

They understand perfectly well. The conflation of immigrants and illegal aliens has been deliberate. It is part of The Ministry Of Propaganda’s operation to convince Americans that they must accept this invasion/cheap labor importation/colonization.


38 posted on 07/19/2015 9:00:09 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kid Shelleen
The media's memory is selectively short.

I can also remember something about Congressional hearings that McCain personally stopped. I think in the 80’s. These hearings were about some of the MIA s still unaccounted for. I have heard these reports are still classified at the Pentagon.

39 posted on 07/19/2015 9:04:14 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: cicero2k

I am no fan of Trump, but Folks should read Sharyl Attkisson’s Fact Check article. Trump is being misrrpresented at every turn. Even Fox News is spreading an inaccurate and incomplete meme.


40 posted on 07/19/2015 9:04:26 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (n1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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