Donald Trump’s immigration comments don’t seem to be hurting Republicans — yet

Washington Post ^ | 8/23/15 | Philip Bump

[jimbo123]

Donald Trump — businessman, raconteur, fiery immigration hardliner — has repeatedly insisted that he will win the Hispanic vote once granted the Republican nomination next year. His argument is usually two-fold: one, he'll bring jobs and, two, a poll showed him leading among Hispanics in Nevada. The Nevada poll has a Trump-Tower-sized margin of error. And the idea that Hispanic voters will flock to the candidate who would have us assume that immigrants from Mexico are more likely criminals than not seems iffy.

But the worst fears of the Republican establishment, that Trump's unapologetic condemnations of immigrants will scuttle their shot at retaking the White House, so far aren't revealing themselves in polling.

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What's more, in the most recent CNN/ORC polling Trump does better against Clinton with non-white voters than Jeb Bush.

[RC one]

we don’t need a majority of blacks. We just need some of them and only in a few battleground states. Carson would help. imho.

[PapaBear3625]

we don’t need a majority of blacks. We just need some of them and only in a few battleground states. Carson would help. imho.

At most we would get a handful from Carson. My point is that we don't really need any of them. We don't.

What we need is to do the things that will get the Republican base to show up, without regard to pandering to groups that will not vote Republican to any significant degree.