Discussion for article #239822
“He is just digging a deeper and deeper hole in terms of the Latino constituency”
Well meanwhile GOP’s support among misanthropic Teahadders is further solidifying! Surely you don’t to downplay those aspects!!
Didya see when Ramos tried to claim he is "Merican? Yeah, FAT CHANCE! 
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I am “replying” only because I can not figure out how to write a separate comment.
Didn’t Trump bring him back in? " When Ramos was let back into the news conference, he and Donald Trump did spar a bit over immigration."
I say that because I don’t think we can afford to ignore facts like Republicans do.
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The corrosive impact of Trumpism on Latino support for the Republican Party will last for at least a decade, and unless there’s a radical change in official GOP policies, it’s likely to be quite a bit longer than that.
Imagine 18-year old kids in Texas or California or North Carolina sitting in their living rooms with their parents watching this, and reading FB posts and Twitters about Latinos by Trump supporters. The effects of those experiences will stay with those kids for a long, long time. People never forget encounters with overt hate when it’s directed toward their families.
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I think that the GOP should immediately invest in a cure for verbal incontinence, otherwise they are done as a political party.
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When I first saw the clip I thought Ramos was being rude, standing there and shouting without being called upon. I later saw an interview of him where he explained that when he requested an interview of Trump, Trump gave his cell phone number out— another characteristic Trump act of disdain and rudeness. Ramos has a pair. I wish some in the Anglo press had a tenth of what he has.
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What really matters is that Trump didn’t answer the question. Details matter and if he ever got in a 1-on-1 debate or even a 3 person debate where his opponents could hold his feet to the fire his utter ;ack of command of the details would bite him in the butt-hard.
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The GOP has been bungling immigration way longer than Trump’s been running for president. Obama won nearly three-quarters of the Latino vote in 2012. It’s not just immigration, either. Latinos care about healthcare, education, jobs, etc., and they aren’t hearing anything they like from Republicans.
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The complaints that Ramos was pushing ahead of other journalists would carry more weight if they actually asked the hard questions of Trump and followed through until they got an answer.
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Note on the Quinniapiac Poll today…the sample is
RACE
White 74%
Black 11
Hispanic 7
2016 will be 70% White 13% Black 12% Hispanic…
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Which candidates grasp the details?
They all love him…The Blacks, The Hispanics, or so he says,but I have never seen a single one at any of his rallies.
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How Donald Trump Made The GOP’s Latino Problem Way Worse
Told them how the majority of republicans really feel toward Latinos?
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Hillary certainly does. On the Republican side, Rubio and Kasich do, but really Trump’s grasp of any details at all is amazingly weak. His comment about, “which is more difficult building a 2000 mile wall or a 90 story skyscraper?”, for example. Obviously his answer is nit just wrong, but ridiculously wrong, since no one has ever built a 2000 mile wall (not even the Great Wall of China) and there are dozens of skyscrapers in New York alone and hundreds around the world.
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Good!
I disagree - I say let this verbal diarrhea continue. This is what they really think and feel - people should know that. Keep flapping those lips and let all the stupid fall out.
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Donald knew who he was. Told him to go back to Univision. He knew.
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Trump may fumble a lot of the specifics - but this he knows real well -
After his “Mexicans are Rapists” remarks Univision terminated its contractual relationship (including television broadcast obligations) with the Trump-backed Miss Universe Organization. Now Trump is suing …
Since it is pretty clear that the Donald looks out for the Donald before all other matters - suspect this is more personal business - and then also showboating
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It’s easy for Anglos (como yo) to forget this, but Ramos isn’t simply the single most influential journalist in Spanish-language American television–he’s the single most influential TV journalist in America period.
It’s a much less fragmented media market, and he’s at the top of it, and he just got treated like a busboy who looks the wrong way at a Times Square tourist. I’m guessing there are going to be some consequences, for the GOP which still has Latino votes to lose even if Trump himself doesn’t.
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I’m constantly amazed by what’s been happening on the GOP Primary. Trump is singlehandedly making the GOP brand absolutely poisonous to Latino demographics. And by some extension, to other non-Caucasian / minority demographics. To a degree that I wouldn’t have thought could be possible just a few months ago.
I’m also amazed by how a huge number of Caucasians treat this as a non-issue. They think openly treating Latinos/Hispanics as beneath them is “ok”. Did everyone catch the Trump guy yelling at Ramos to “go back to his country?” to which Ramos replied “I’m an American citizen”. The guy’s response? Total disbelief and more yelling to get the hell out of HIS America.
Thank goodness for patriots like him trying to put us Latinos/Hispanics in our “place.”
I’ve always understood that Caucasians in general seem to assume they are the center of the universe. This is their world, not ours. Their country, not ours. It’s why they’re “taking the country back” and “making America great again” and all of those wonderful slogans that imply that if non-Caucasian (or female for that matter) Americans are are in charge, somehow America is no longer “great”. It’s absolutely delectable in how it is drenched and dripping in blatant racism, bigotry, and misogyny while it innocently alleges the opposite.
Anyways, Kudos Trump. I’m now officially rooting for him to be the GOP nominee. Oh please oh please let him be the GOP nominee!!!
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