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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGOP to Trump: Stop alienating Latinos
Source: CNN
GOP to Trump: Stop alienating Latinos
By Eric Bradner and Phil Mattingly, CNN
Updated 1238 GMT (2038 HKT) June 6, 2016
Washington (CNN)- Top Republican officials and donors are increasingly worried about the threat Donald Trump's attack on a judge's Mexican heritage could pose to their party's chances in November -- and about the GOP's ability to win Latino votes for many elections to come.
Trump is under fire for repeatedly accusing U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit involving Trump University, of bias because of his Mexican heritage. Those concerns intensified Sunday after Trump said he would have the same concerns about the impartiality of a Muslim judge.
House and Senate GOP leaders have condemned Trump's remarks about Curiel, while donors have openly worried that losing Latino voters could doom them in key down-ballot races. Other important party figures, including former Speaker Newt Gingrich, are urging Trump to change his combative, confrontational style before it's too late.
Veteran Republican strategist Rick Wilson warned this weekend that GOP leaders who have endorsed Trump "own his politics."
"You own his politics," Wilson wrote in a column for Heatstreet, adding later, "You own the racial animus that started out as a bug, became a feature and is now the defining characteristic of his campaign. You own every crazy, vile chunk of word vomit that spews from his mouth."
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By Eric Bradner and Phil Mattingly, CNN
Updated 1238 GMT (2038 HKT) June 6, 2016
Washington (CNN)- Top Republican officials and donors are increasingly worried about the threat Donald Trump's attack on a judge's Mexican heritage could pose to their party's chances in November -- and about the GOP's ability to win Latino votes for many elections to come.
Trump is under fire for repeatedly accusing U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is overseeing a lawsuit involving Trump University, of bias because of his Mexican heritage. Those concerns intensified Sunday after Trump said he would have the same concerns about the impartiality of a Muslim judge.
House and Senate GOP leaders have condemned Trump's remarks about Curiel, while donors have openly worried that losing Latino voters could doom them in key down-ballot races. Other important party figures, including former Speaker Newt Gingrich, are urging Trump to change his combative, confrontational style before it's too late.
Veteran Republican strategist Rick Wilson warned this weekend that GOP leaders who have endorsed Trump "own his politics."
"You own his politics," Wilson wrote in a column for Heatstreet, adding later, "You own the racial animus that started out as a bug, became a feature and is now the defining characteristic of his campaign. You own every crazy, vile chunk of word vomit that spews from his mouth."
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GOP to Trump: Stop alienating Latinos (Original Post)
Eugene
Jun 2016
OP
Yeah, the rest of the GOP is already doing a good enough job alienating them..nt
joeybee12
Jun 2016
#3
Too late Goopers. It is all out there now. Even if he stopped today, the damage has been done.
yellowcanine
Jun 2016
#8
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)1. "urging Trump to change"
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)2. It's a toothpaste tube of hate
They simply can't 'un-do' Trump.
Republicans are trying and their mess
of hate/bigotry is getting out all over.
This is the best thing that could ever
happen to the worst people.
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)3. Yeah, the rest of the GOP is already doing a good enough job alienating them..nt
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)7. That's what I was going to say. nt
joeybee12
(56,177 posts)9. Great minds
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)4. Good luck with that...
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)5. Trump cannot help himself-racism is a key part of his personaliy
bdwker
(435 posts)6. To Reince Preibus...
Hows that big tent going??
Dumbshit
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)8. Too late Goopers. It is all out there now. Even if he stopped today, the damage has been done.
And the damage is huuuuuuge, as Trumpy would say. And of course he is not going to stop. Trump's mo is to divert attention from one outrageous by making another bigger and more outrageous statement.
spanone
(135,844 posts)10. WAAAAY too late
ananda
(28,866 posts)11. That's telling him! I'm sure he'll listen.
Sure.