Posted on 07/03/2015 7:10:05 AM PDT by Mariner
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hispanic leaders are warning of harm to Republican White House hopes unless the party's presidential contenders do more to condemn Donald Trump, a businessman turned presidential candidate who's refusing to apologize for calling Mexican immigrants rapists and drug dealers.
Trump's comments, delivered in his announcement speech last month, have haunted the GOP for much of the last two weeks and dominated Spanish-language media. It's bad timing for a Republican Party that has invested significantly in Hispanic outreach in recent years, given the surging influence of the minority vote.
Yet several Republican candidates have avoided the issue altogether, while those who have weighed in have declined to criticize Trump as strongly as many Hispanic leaders would like.
"The time has come for the candidates to distance themselves from Trump and call his comments what they are: ludicrous, baseless and insulting," said Alfonso Aguilar, a Republican who leads the American Principles Project's Latino Partnership. "Sadly, it hurts the party with Hispanic voters. It's a level of idiocy I haven't seen in a long time."
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I can see most of them condemning Trump...and one candidate standing by his principles and refusing to do so.
“Hispanic leaders can catch a burro back to Mexico....”
Hate speech! Microaggression! (Or, maybe even Macroaggression!)
Off to the camps with you! (But you must continue to pay your taxes.)
A popular liberal tactic - demand that conservatives disavow each other.
Unfortunately, we’re usually all too happy to comply.
When was the last time anyone read a headline that said, “White leaders...?”
Illegal immigration is like the race card it’s a big business they will never give it up.
Why do you think democrats and RINOS pimp it so much they don’t do anything unless money is tied to it.
Bush will be condemning him in Spanish.
Pray America is waking
I've witnessed it myself in every election cycle since the wild-eyed calls to "Stop Goldwater!"
You need to get that info to the Trump camp.
Macro aggression....probably. But you’d have to translate it to something like “informatica aggression” blah, blah.....
With most here something like “blanco vente or grande aggression” would suffice.
It seems to me the only humans in this world who are NOT allowed an ethnic culture, morals, or tradition are white people.
I really don’t care what they think. :0)
Oh yeh just condemn Trump and they will all vote Republican. Not! :-)
Condemn him!? They better cheer him if they ever want me to consider them as alternative to Trump. Not supporting Trump yet but very much appreciate his speaking out.
That’s it in a nutshell.
In light of the Mexican Invasion, all of this other stuff is a penny-ante distraction.
“Screw Hispanic leaders. If they don’t like it go back to their homeland, corrupt Mexico.
problem is they think this was their country and they are taking it back, baby by baby.
Condemn Trup for what?
Telling the truth. I don’t think so.
They don't want your racist vote:)
This thread shines a harsh light on to the spineless GOP leaders and their usual (in)actions.
Ted Cruz really shut up one of the “Hispanic” leaders on this issue. I am glad that Trump freed this issue! So many issues can’t be talked about freely because the leftists don’t want a real honest dialogue!
These clowns will vote DUMMYcrap regardless even if a GOP president personally goes to the border and opens it up. Offended my ass
When the left says they want a dialogue on a subject, that really means they want to bludgeon you over the subject, without you fighting back.
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