Trump in New Mexico: 'Who do you like more -- the country or Hispanics?'
Source: NBC News
The president made a rally pitch for Hispanic voters in a state he lost by 8 points in 2016: “Nobody loves the Hispanics more,” he said at a rally Monday night.
Trump: 'We love our Hispanics'
Sept. 16, 2019, 11:36 PM CDT
RIO RANCHO, N.M. —..................................
The president's pitch to Hispanic voters seemed to silo them off from the rest of the electorate, including the rally crowd ("We love our Hispanics"
. It featured an assertion that they had a greater understanding of the source of the drug problem than other Americans. And it included a section in which Trump wondered how CNN contributor Steve Cortes could be Hispanic even though, the president said, he appeared to be of Northern European descent.
“He happens to be Hispanic, but I never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do,” Trump said of Cortes, who was in the audience.
From the stage, he asked Cortes: "Who do you like more, the country or Hispanics?” Cortes appeared to mouth “country,” to which Trump replied: “I don’t know. I may have to go for the Hispanics, to be honest with you. We got a lot of Hispanics.”
Trump later said Hispanics should support him and his efforts to build a border wall because they understand the roots of the drug problem better than other voters.
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“Nobody loves the Hispanics more,” Trump told the crowd. “We love our Hispanics, get out and vote.”
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Trump's disapproval rating among Hispanics stood at 79 percent in a Pew Research Center poll last month...................................
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-new-mexico-who-do-you-love-more-country-or-n1055176
Well, now Trump is separating Latinos. damn. He is so sick.
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