Batter up!
Posted on 02/26/2016 7:51:31 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Via the Washington Post:
Strongly negative views of Trump have intensified over the past seven months, as the New York billionaire has repeatedly pressed his call to build a wall along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border and seek to deport undocumented immigrants currently residing in the country. Today, 8 in 10 Hispanic voters have an unfavorable view of Trump. That includes more than 7 in 10 who have a "very unfavorable" impression of him, which is more than double the percentage of any other major candidate.
Those findings compare with a Univision survey taken around the time of Trump's announcement last summer, when just more than 7 in 10 had a negative view of him and fewer than 6 in 10 said they had a "very unfavorable" impression.
Should Trump become the Republican nominee, his current low standing among Hispanic voters could jeopardize the party's hopes of winning the general election in November. In current matchups with Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton, Trump scores worse among Hispanics than any of the three other leading Republican candidates — Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
This will probably be dismissed with a, "So what, they weren't going to vote Republican anyway" attitude by most people, and in any other election year I would probably agree.
While it is true that the GOP has to do better with Hispanic voters, it can't do it in a freebie giveaway pandering game with the Democrats, which, unfortunately, it's been leaning towards. The case for economic liberty and who can best insure that needs to be made. Republicans need to first once again become the party that unequivocally guarantees it and then it needs to communicate that fact, but it's not there just yet.
Because of the clumsy approach to Hispanic outreach by the GOP, all it is really left with this year is figuring out how to manage potential narratives. There is a tendency to believe that all Hispanic-American voters side with the Democrats on illegal immigration. As someone who has lived in the Southwestern United States his whole life I can assure you that this is not the case. It need not be the default forever either.
A Trump nomination will only make the "GOP hates all minorities!" crowd become more vocal, and more likely than not, more well funded. Get ready for a general election filled with ads that feature comments from the tweets of every white nationalist freak who likes Trump. It doesn't matter that they're a fringe, the press, when it does its customary about-face and turns on the GOP nominee it liked during the primaries, will spend 24 hours a day eviscerating Trump on this issue.
Yes, they'll play the "Well, he's not a real Hispanic..." card with Rubio or Cruz if either is the nominee, but that's the kind of thing that can be turned against them in the long run if handled properly.
The biggest nightmare scenario in this election is still a Hillary Clinton presidency. We have to start parsing where the competitive advantages are and perhaps avoiding giving extra energy, volume, and cash to portions of the electorate that may propel her to victory.
Incoming! Head for the bomb shelter!
Right Ignore the real votes by Hispanics in Nevada, cling to our media narrative!
Washington Post ??? Go away. Trying again to write history as usual.
Well, they ain’t voting for Rubio and Cruz.
70% hispanic voted for democrats last election, so they were already democrats
Yet he got more Hispanic votes than the 2 closest challengers combined.
Hispanics are 12-14% of the total electorate (legally).
Not enough to be determinant.
Provided only legal hispanics vote, he’ll get a higher percentage than previous GOP nominees. They want the illegal alien inundation stopped, too.
And they were both Cubans
Are these “negatives with Hispanics” or “negatives with hispanic illegal aliens”?
except Nevada where 70% of those voting hispanics voted for Trump
I read somewhere, that Romney only need 3% more white ppl to show up to vote for him and he would’ve won, even with 90% black and 70% hispanic voting for obama
I live in Nevada and was a precinct captain at the Caucus
Huge turnout and lots of Hispanics there we looked at their names, even a few named Cruz.
Donald won 45 percent of the Hispanic vote.
My opinion , Mr. Fox must be on the Trump payroll this outburst of his helped Trump so much.
Mr. Fox refused to stop what was going on at the border.
Nafta should have made border enforcement part of the deal.
Loses ‘em in the polls, wins them at the ballot box......who to believe?
they’re democrats numbers, they wouldn’t have voted for any republican anyway
Who cares how Republicans poll among minority groups.
The Republican Party, if it were salvageable, would be smart to forget about all of this “Big Tent” nonsense and start appealing to the tens of millions of disaffected conservative voters who stay home each election.
Ann Coulter proved in her last book that Hispanics are not the be-all, end-all of the electorate, no matter how many MSM fluff articles take that as a truism. A Republican does not need the Hispanic vote to win (at least at this point in time). He needs the white vote, which Romney failed to bring to the polls.
The opinions of illegal Hispanics don’t count for anything at all.
Only real citizens who are Hispanic have a say.
Illegal invaders should have no voice on any topic as long as they are occupying our country criminally.
Batter up!
Exactly. Such BS.
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