Trump continues to inflict lasting, perhaps irreparable, damage to the party’s image among Hispanics

[Liberal_in_LA]

THE BIG IDEA: Donald Trump is doing to the national GOP brand in 2016 what Proposition 187 did to California Republicans in 1994. He continues to inflict lasting, perhaps irreparable, damage to the party’s image among Hispanics. It is not hyperbole to say that Trumpism could relegate the party of Abraham Lincoln to long-term minority status.

Just how anathema is Trump to Latinos? The head of Hispanic media relations for the Republican National Committee, Ruth Guerra, has resigned her post after two years and will take a less prestigious job at a super PAC, which focuses on down-ballot races and thus will not require her to defend him.

Sources said Guerra, who grew up in Texas and is of Mexican descent, grew increasingly exhausted with having to defend The Donald on TV and in public appearances, especially as he continues to attack Hispanics. "I'm so proud of her,” a Hispanic Republican told our Ed O’Keefe last night. "I don't know how she held on for this long."

“It is relatively rare for party staff members to leave the national committee in the midst of a presidential campaign unless they are going to work directly for the nominee,” noted the New York Times, which first reported the story. “Ms. Guerra declined to discuss her feelings about Mr. Trump.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2016/06/02/daily-202-hispanic-rnc-staffer-s-resignation-spotlights-trump-s-toxicity-and-the-party-s-failed-outreach/574f932d981b92a22dd1182b/

[Doctor Jack]

1. Good, glad all of the republican leadership is embracing him

The entire GOP needs to die off for a generation

[pampango]

2. Just last week, he attacked the most prominent Latina in his adopted party, New Mexico Gov.

Susana Martinez, during a rally in her home state.

In the days since, he’s been going after U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel, who is handling two class-action lawsuits against Trump University. “He’s a hater,” Trump said at a campaign rally in San Diego, adding that he believed the Indiana-born judge was “Mexican.” Legal experts are alarmed that “the vendetta signals a remarkable disregard for judicial independence,” Jose A. DelReal and Katie Zezima report.

-- In the aftermath of 2012, who would have thought the next Republican nominee would get less than Mitt Romney’s 27 percent among Hispanic voters? The post-election autopsy, ordered up by the RNC, called not just for a changed tone but also comprehensive immigration reform. Neither happened.

Florida-based GOP consultant Alex Patton told the Boston Globe that it will be hard for Trump to carry his state. “The entire autopsy on what we’re going to do to reach out to minority and women voters got ‘Trumped,’ ” Patton told Alice Yin. “I hope the GOP can put Humpty Dumpty back together again.”

At times it is easy to forget Trump's weakness with minorities and women. Thanks for the reminder.

[brer cat]

4. An article in WAPO this morning

quoted him as saying he wanted Martinez's endorsement. It will be interesting to see if she can swallow that pill.

[Ilsa]

3. And I bet she votes for him even though

Trump's racism caused her to leave her job.