Macy’s dropped his products from its stores and NASCAR announced it would no longer hold its end-of-season awards ceremony at a Trump hotel in Miami.
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In last year’s congressional elections, Democrats won the Latino vote by a margin of 62% to 36%, according to the Pew Research Center.
Yet several Republican candidates have avoided the issue altogether, while those who have weighed in have declined to criticize Trump as strongly as many Hispanic leaders would like.
And it could be a costly moment if more candidates don’t go beyond their Donald-will-be-Donald response and condemn him directly, said Alfonso Aguilar, a Republican who leads the American Principles Project’s Latino Partnership. His comments are designed to show the New Yorker is tough on immigration, which appeals to many conservatives to the right, but they are coming off as insulting and at some remove from fact.
“While your comments are incredibly ignorant and racist, I don’t want to spend my time chastising you…” COLUMN: Trump turns GOP elephant in to cricket NBC, Univision and Macy’s have cut business ties with Trump.
Twitter users who stand with Trump are also using the hashtag to express their thoughts on his statements. “They’re bringing drugs“, he said.
The real estate magnate reiterated his remarks in a telephone interview with “Fox and Friends” Saturday, insisting “this isn’t a Mexico thing”. He has leaned heavily on the capacity of a wall to resolve US businesses’ demand for cheap labor, the range of economic need and violence, and the limited options for legal migration to the United States from Latin America that have together driven millions to illegally cross the border. Trump didn’t say.
“Maybe we’ll have a chance to have an honest discussion about it on stage”, Bush said last weekend while campaigning in Nevada.
Rev. Gabriel Salguero, president of the National Latino Evangelical Coalition, is paying keen attention to how the candidates respond to Trump’s “xenophobic rhetoric”.
After a Fourth of July parade in Merrimack, New Hampshire, Bush called Trump’s remarks “extraordinarily ugly”.
She wrote: “Anyway, I heard what you said about the kind of people you think Latino immigrants are – people with problems, who bring drugs, crime and rape to America”, Ferrera started out her extensive letter titled “Thank You, Donald Trump”.
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Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, who is also seeking the GOP nomination for president, backed away from a broad overhaul after facing criticism.
