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

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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.