Donald Trump pinatas, with dark suits, oversized pink lips and unruly yellow manes in paper mache, are top sellers across South Texas – a potential sign of trouble for its Republican congressman and some colleagues representing predominantly Hispanic districts across the country.
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First-term Republican Rep. Will Hurd is seeking re-election in a district that’s almost 70 per cent Hispanic and encompasses 820 miles of the U.S. -Mexico border.
At a joint press conference, Trump told reporters that payment of his proposed border wall was not discussed.
Democrats, who plan to spend much of the fall campaign linking GOP candidates to Trump, say the GOP tactic will not work. “For this reason, we support Donald Trump’s candidacy to be our next Commander-in-Chief”, the group wrote in their letter.
Trump allowed a small pool of reporters and photographers to join him aboard his private plane Monday between campaign stops in OH – a first, which came on the same day Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton took her inaugural flight on a plane with her entire traveling press corps.
“It’s going to be an interesting four years, regardless of the outcome”, he said. Mexico’s foreign minister, Claudia Ruiz Massieu, said she understands Clinton’s decision. This was part of Mexico. We stop the drugs from coming in, because the drugs are pouring in. He must build on his progress this past week, proving to the people he would be mature in the White House and making them feel comfortable with him enough not to vote for the despicable Hillary Clinton.
“Whether it’s me or somebody else because by that time we’ll have a secure border, we’ll have a wall”, Trump said.
The New York businessman said that before considering how to deal with millions of illegal immigrants who are obeying USA laws and contributing to American society, he first wants to evict criminal elements like drug smugglers and build a border wall.
On the other hand, you have the Trump his campaign would like to present to the electorate.
Colleen Schwartz, the Vice President of Communications of WSJ, said that the edition on the left was published after Trump met Nieto early in the day.
The reward? Voters now have an image of Trump in a presidential setting, standing side-by-side with a world leader behind a lectern, listening patiently to a translator relay his counterpart’s remarks.
Instead, Trump focused on the need to secure the border and deport undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes in the U.S. and those who have overstayed their visas, and left the door open to reexamining the cases of the remaining millions of undocumented immigrants.
Colorado Republican Rep. Mike Coffman even produced an ad promising to stand up to Trump. The result is guaranteed to be one of the most immediately unpopular presidents the nation has ever seen. The party was working on a path to legalization and immigration reform before Trump, writing in an after-action report: “If Hispanics think we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies”.
The fight for OH in the 2016 election is a showcase for how Republicans and Democrats are navigating a deeply divided electorate. “Everybody came here searching for a better life”, said Toney. “It allows us to go out and get people who’ve never considered voting Republican in any other election”. Then he trailed off, shrugging. Trump, it can be safely said, had, for him, an extraordinarily positive week – most of which occurred after these latest polls. “They may be unhappy with Republican members saying those things, but it’s unlikely they’re going to walk away from them”.
Gallego said that when he campaigns in Hispanic neighborhoods, he’s surprised people don’t say they dislike Trump.
But I’m not sure they should have to worry. “It’s, ‘He doesn’t like us, ‘” Gallego said.
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Donald Trump isn’t going to be sending some kind of deportation force to start breaking down doors and splitting up families; he’s too compassionate for that.
