what are Trump poll numbers with Hispanic Americans? He's going after them with everything he's got

[Demovictory9]

with the passport thing now.

[Gothmog]

1. For this thread

Link to tweet

[awesomerwb1]

2. The numbers I've seen throughout this nightmare

have been disappointingly high. Not sure about now after the separations and the passport thing you mentioned.

[Me.]

3. What Does It Take

I had hoped this would be the thing that would bring them out to vote but if they are going to support him

[Hoyt]

4. From what I read, 25 to 30% of Hispanic voters supported trump in 2016. That was surprising and sad.

Don't know about the current percentage. Those that voted for him in 2016 had to be alright with mass deportations, because that is what trump was selling. I guess if they "disapprove" of trump now, it's because they didn't break up more families, load people in box cars and ship them out as promised. (I think trump wanted to, but was blocked by courts, etc.)

[kimbutgar]

5. My hubby works with a Hispanic guy who is a major orange maggot supporter

If this guy walked down the street ICE would question him because he is so ethnic looking. There is nothing the orange maggot could do to dissuade him and he didn’t care about the children being out in cages, “because they broke the laws”!

[Hoyt]

6. I just don't understand people like that. But some people only care about themselves.

[JI7]

7. they think they are above and better than the others. we saw this with people who faced deportation

and other issues who had supported him.

they viewed others that it happened to as deserving it and not one of the good ones like themselves.

and many of them want a pat on the head from racist whites and be told they are a good boy/girl .

[Awsi Dooger]

8. Not good but better than logic would indicate

I saved this link from several weeks ago because it includes a good article and also video. I recommend both, for an understanding of the variables:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/07/politics/democrats-hispanics-midterm-elections-fault-lines/index.html

"I still think it's a little too soon to push the panic button, but having said that, we are not seeing the types of numbers with Hispanic voters that we should be seeing with the most hostile person to ever hold public office against Hispanics as the President," said Fernand Amandi, principal at Bendixen & Amandi International, a Democratic polling firm that specializes in studying Latino voters. "And that in and of itself is a concern. I'm flabbergasted."

<snip>

"Yet virtually everyone on both sides of this Democratic debate agrees on one point: Despite all his confrontational rhetoric and policies, Trump alone appears unlikely to reverse the usual falloff in Hispanic turnout during midterm elections, and he may not even widen the typical Democratic advantage among them in their vote preferences.

Neither public polls nor private research suggests an organic surge to the polls among Hispanic voters outraged by Trump is developing the way it appears to be coalescing among college-educated white women and African-American women. And that means Democrats face their typical challenge of energizing a community whose voter participation has remained stubbornly low."

[Demovictory9]

9. very interesting (and sobering) article. thank you.

[Awsi Dooger]

11. You are welcome

Yes, it is sobering because so many pivotal races depend on the Hispanic vote this year, like Beto and both Florida races and Arizona senate, just to name a handful

[Progressive Law]

10. It pains me to say this. There is a narrow, but significant, portion...

...of the Latino community that is not sympathetic to the plights of recent immigrants, Latino or otherwise.

If any of you remember the decades old MTV series "The Real World, San Francisco", you'll remember Rachel Campos who was deeply religious and conservative. She embodies the sentiment of this community. She's currently married to a GOP Rep from MN. They both spoke at the 2016 GOP convention supporting Trump.