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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOn the El Paso border, Trumps appeal with Latinos defies expectations
EL PASO, Texas Ramon De La Rosa predicts itll take President-elect Donald Trump just six months to make America great again.
The 73-year-old is eager to see Trump bring back jobs from places such as China and stop taxing hard-working Americans to pay for food stamps and other entitlement programs.
When Trump launched his presidential campaign and labeled Mexicans who enter the country illegally as rapists, criminals and drug dealers, De La Rosa, who was born in Mexico and crossed the border at 17 to become a U.S. resident, was not offended. It also didnt faze him that Trump pledged to build a massive wall along the border here in an effort to keep people just like him out.
I know he didnt mean that about all Mexicans, De La Rosa said, noting that Trump just talks like a tontito, a Spanish term meaning fool. He knows nothing about politics and nothing about speaking politically correct.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-the-el-paso-border-trumps-appeal-with-latinos-defies-expectations/2016/12/09/9bc508c6-b01e-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html?utm_term=.2cd6e7bc9574&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1
muntrv
(14,505 posts)there will be no one left to speak.
malthaussen
(17,216 posts)... and speaks like a fool? May I ask what criteria you use to vote, then?
-- Mal
Douglas Kawasaki
(51 posts)In the absence of latino-voting exit poll data for El Paso, any journalist can claim that Latinos prefer worm ice cream over apple juice, for instance. Because Ramon said so.
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)LenaBaby61
(6,977 posts)Is this one of the dumb-ass deplorables--er, I mean "nice, kind folks" that the Democrats are supposed to be going after hard core?
You know, to sway him to OUR side?
Yeah or naw?
realmirage
(2,117 posts)that we care about loss of jobs and globalization.
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)Orangepeel
(13,933 posts)Ramon doesn't have a whole lot of company.
US PRESIDENT
191 of 191 Precincts Reporting (Combined) Detail Map
Votes Percent
DONALD J. TRUMP (REP) 55,512 25.71%
HILLARY CLINTON (DEM) 147,843 68.47%
GARY JOHNSON (LIB) 7,607 3.52%
JILL STEIN (GRN) 2,945 1.36%
WRITE-IN 2,015 0.93%
Total 215,922
http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/TX/El_Paso/64709/184086/Web01/en/summary.html
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)This implication that Trump owns places he won by 0.3% and even places he lost by 40 points is asinine and we need to stop falling for it.
0rganism
(23,970 posts)they'll push this kind of fluff every minute of every day for the next 4 years if there isn't significant pushback