Posted on 02/25/2019 5:18:24 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Yes, it’s true: The man who wants to build a wall to keep out immigrants is winning over just enough Latinos to get re-elected. Unless Democrats figure out how to stop him.
When President Donald Trump tweeted, on January 20, that he had reached 50 percent approval among Hispanic-Americans, most fair-minded observers reacted with skepticism, if not outright disbelief. Trump was, after all, still the same man who announced his candidacy by accusing Mexico of sending “rapists” across the border, the same man who ordered refugee children separated from their parents, the same man who has made building a wall to shut out migrants the focal point of his presidency. Yet here he was, crowing characteristic bravado: “Wow, just heard that my poll numbers with Hispanics has gone up 19%, to 50%. That is because they know the Border issue better than anyone, and they want Security, which can only be gotten with a Wall.”
So, when even the pollsters responsible for the data Trump was touting—Marist Institute for Public Opinion, for NPR and "PBS NewsHour"—cautioned of the high margin of error for that subset, and a possible over-sampling of Republicans, many on the left promptly dismissed it as an anomaly.
One month later, however, and Trump is making an aggressive play for Hispanic-American votes in Florida and beyond. Meanwhile, polls suggest Marist might have been onto something—and that Democrats should be worried that Hispanic voters could help reelect Trump and keep the Senate in Republican control. If so, it would be a cosmic twist of fate: A party that has staked its future on a belief that America’s demographic picture is changing decidedly in its favor could find itself losing to a man whose politics of fear should be driving precisely those voters into the Democrats’ waiting arms.
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Yep
I had sneered at the ingenuousness of the left always lumping legal and illeglal immigrants together but I am beginning to understand that they truly believe there is no difference in attitudes between the two groups. Why would the Mexicans who immigrate legally desire the importation of millions of illegals who will depress the wage scale and make their neighborhoods dangerous? I know a big local group of legals. Most are cheering Trump. Others aren’t paying attention. None like the Democrats much.
“the same man who ordered refugee children separated from their parents, the same man who has made building a wall to shut out migrants the focal point of his presidency”
More professional journalism from Politico.
More yellow journalism from the reporters who practice fake news and outright deceit and lies.
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