Will Trump energize the Latino vote?
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Jennifer Hernandez waits, clipboard in hand, to register people to vote in front of a Latino supermarket in Las Vegas. Hernandez works with Mi Familia Vota, a group that works to register voters in the Latino community.
LAS VEGAS >> It’s a paradox in American politics: Many Hispanic families have an immense personal stake in what happens on Election Day, but despite numbers that should mean political power, Hispanics often can’t vote, aren’t registered to vote, or sit it out.
Enter Donald Trump, and the question that could make or break the election in key states. By inflaming the anti-immigrant sentiments of white, working-class men, has the Republican nominee jolted awake another group — 27.3 million eligible Hispanic voters?
“A lot of times you hear this rap about how politics doesn’t affect their life,” says Yvanna Cancela, political director of Las Vegas’ largely immigrant Culinary Union. “But that changes when it’s personal, and there’s nothing more personal than Donald Trump talking about deporting 11 million immigrants.”
Hispanics now represent the nation’s largest ethnic community with some 55 million people. More than one-third of them are U.S.-born, and the others immigrants who are citizens, legal residents or here illegally. Most trace their familial roots to Mexico, one of Trump’s favorite targets.
A cornerstone of Trump’s platform is building a wall along the Southwest border — and forcing Mexico to pay for it by threatening to cut off remittances those living in the U.S. send to relatives. He questioned the impartiality of an Indiana-born federal judge hearing a lawsuit against him because of the judge’s Mexican ancestry. He’s complained Mexico has sent “rapists” and “criminals” illegally to the U.S.
Now some Republicans worry Trump is creating more people like John Herrera, 38, who signed up to vote in June in Las Vegas.
“I’ve never really voted until now, only because of Trump being against Hispanic people,” he said. “I didn’t think my vote would count before but now I want to make a difference.”
Republicans blame a 1994 ballot measure targeting illegal immigrants in California for alienating that state’s growing Hispanic population and turning it solidly Democratic.
“With Trump saying the things he’s saying, we might see this same thing again,” says Jody Agius Vallejo, a University of Southern California sociologist and author of “Barrios to Burbs: The Making of the Mexican American Middle Class.” ”Only this time, it would be nationally.”
There is reason, though, to be skeptical. Overall, the Hispanic voting record is not good.
The first obstacle is that more than half of the nation’s Hispanics cannot vote because they are either under age 18 or not citizens. Relatively few of the Hispanics who are eligible to vote actually register and then cast ballots. Their turnout rate in the 2012 was lower than that of blacks and whites.
In Texas, where 39 percent of the population is Hispanic, Democrats have been shut out of statewide elections for decades. During 2014’s elections, fewer than 2.3 million Texas Hispanics reported being registered to vote, or about 46 percent of the nearly 4.9 million who were eligible, according to U.S. Census Bureau surveys.
“We’ve been spending our money wrong,” concedes Crystal Zermeno, director of special projects for the Democratic field organization Texas Organizing Project.
“For the past 15 to 20 years, we’ve been focusing on moving swing white voters. If you talk to Hispanic voters, they say, ‘No one has asked me to vote.’”
There are success stories. In Nevada, Latinos have demonstrated the power they wield when they either turn out or stay home. In the 2014 midterms, for example, Hispanic turnout plummeted, and Republicans swept every statewide office and won control of both houses of the Legislature for the first time since 1929. But in 2008, 2010 and 2012 they helped deliver the state for Democrats.
“When you have the resources put in, you see turnout that favors the Democrats,” says David Damore, a political science professor at the University of Nevada Las Vegas. “But you need to put resources in the community. It’s not just going to happen.”
This year — with Trump priming the pump, and with former state Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto running to become the first Latina senator — resources are flowing.
In June, two days after graduating from high school, Fabiola Vejar stood outside a Latin grocery store on a sweltering afternoon quizzing a parade of customers in Spanish: “Are you registered to vote?” Most shook their heads no. Vejar followed up: “Are you eligible?” Again, most responded in the negative. One man laughed and bellowed: “Soy Mexicano!” I’m Mexican!
Vejar cannot vote. Now 18, she came from Mexico with her mother when she was 2 years old.
So she volunteers with Mi Familia Vota, encouraging others to be heard at the ballot box.
“I don’t have that voice,” she says, “but there’s other people … who feel the way I do. They should vote.”
Xiomara Duenas will. She immigrated legally to the United States from Cuba in 1996 to join her father. She had always believed that her shaky English prevented her from becoming a citizen. She was resigned to the idea that immigrants didn’t have the same rights as native-born Americans — until Trump’s candidacy.
Last November, she became a citizen. This November, she plans to act.
“I didn’t want him to become president, but I couldn’t do anything,” says Duenas. “But now, I can vote.”
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He’s energizing the LEGAL Latino immigrants, and other LEGAL immigrant groups.
It’s sad that the SA cares so little about the immigrants that play by the rules, study and save money so that they can manage the steps necessary to LEGALLY become US Citizens.
And there are many of those kinds of people in this State.
Kekelaward, fully agree with your post. Mr. Trump will also increase support from all “Legal” Americans with the selection of Federal Judges and rebuilding our economy that will provide jobs and opportunities for “all”. At the present time the huge unemployment of minorities are the result of Hawaii’s born President Obama policies and it must be reversed. The rebuilding of the American economy will also aid Countries around the World. Can Ms Hillary accomplish the same following the same policies as Obama? No Way.
Trump campaign is using Hillary’s comments that she “had a short circuit in responding to her email”, but Trump short circuits every time he goes on stage. So let me see him or her? He’ll press the button.
What? You ok?
Don’t waste your hopes and energy getting excited about Trump’s false promises. He’s had some success as a wheeler-dealer and reality show star, but doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to comprehend the complexities of economics. As an entrepreneur, he has hired “tens of thousands” of workers to labor for his profit, but that has no bearing on what he might do as president to actually create jobs.
He doesn’t want to release his taxes, which would show that he created “tens of thousands of jobs” in Mexico. What an American hero!
AEA Endorses Donald Trump for President
The American Energy Alliance is pleased to announce its endorsement of businessman Donald J. Trump for President.
AEA President Thomas Pyle issued the following statement:
“The U.S. is at a crossroads when it comes to our federal energy policy. Over the last eight years President Obama has subjected the American people to policies that fundamentally transform our energy economy into just another politicized arm of Washington. President Obama has rewarded his contributors with government mandates and taxpayer subsidies, rather than allowing Americans to choose what works for them. The outcome of this election will determine whether we continue this destructive agenda or take a more free-market approach that will result in affordable, reliable energy for every American.
“The contrast between the two candidates’ energy platforms could not be greater. Donald Trump’s message is one of optimism, prosperity, and abundance where the needs of consumers and workers are put first. Hillary Clinton’s message is one of political favors and cronyism that puts the agenda of her favored special interests above all else.
“Donald Trump has put forth a plan that would move our country forward by opening up more federal lands and waters for energy exploration of all kinds, utilizing cutting-edge technologies to tap into our vast resources, unwinding the Obama administration’s harmful regulations, and subjecting the Paris Agreement to the scrutiny it deserves. These policies will usher in an era of prosperity that will strengthen our economy, put more money in the pockets of American families, and lift many struggling Americans out of poverty. It will make America more secure and more Americans better off.
“Hillary Clinton offers the American people a plan that would move our country backwards—hurting all American families, but especially the poorest among us. At the bidding of special interest groups, Secretary Clinton has promised to ban production of natural gas, coal, and oil on federal lands, discourage the use of innovative technologies, and vigorously implement the Obama administration’s destructive regulations and the Paris Agreement that extends UN control over American citizens.
“Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton offer two very distinct paths for the future of our country. Where Donald Trump promises prosperity and growth, Hillary Clinton promises a third term of President Obama’s regressive climate agenda. The stakes are far too high to sit on the sidelines, which is why AEA is pleased to endorse Donald Trump for President.”
Kekela. You NAILED IT Bro! Sad indeed not only for the SA but all of the MSM and yet we still have Liberal idiots stoking Racist Flames.Attacks including: Inciting Racism, Bigotry,Misogyny the list goes on. This is what they do best!
It will truly amaze everyone including the Libs,Conservatives,Back stabbing Rhinos and of course the Illegals when Donald becomes the next POTUS. And I would not miss it for the World! I am proud of my (50% ,50%) Hispanic heritage and I endorse Donald J. Trump ! Be advised! This Latino is Energized!
Moderation” is what they do Best!” Good one SA!
That’s what Obama ran on in 2008. The racial divide. He’s been doing it ever since. And Crooked Hillary is following in his footsteps.
He’s energizing them, alright – but not in way that’s going to help him. I was in San Diego a couple of weeks ago having lunch in a Latino neighborhood, and saw two voter registration kiosks set up with long (very long) lines at them. Yes, he’s definitely energizing them – to vote against him.
He’s going to lose in a historic landslide. Good riddance.
Rightful so. We cannot have a bigot as our president. Today it’s the Mexicans; who will it be tomorrow, the Blacks? Asians? Catholics? We should all be fearful of this crazy man. Just remember who let the movement trying to convince the public that Mr. Obama was NOT born in Hawaii but in a foreign country.
Exactly. He started the birther movement, and lied continuously throughout that whole fetid affair. He is a living piece of garbage.
The more humiliating and brand-destroying the election is for Trump, the better off we’ll all be.
Are you referring to the Kenyan that plays golf?
sarge22 – You need to have a literate friend read these comments to you. You obviously can’t understand any of them. Your answers are non sequiturs, and it’s sad to see you do this every day. Ask for help.
I’m sure you understood the question. A simply yes or no would suffice.
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday he would have prosecuted Hillary Clinton over her email scandal and guaranteed he would have won the case, casting the Democratic presidential candidate as an unrepentant liar.
Mr. Giuliani, who has emerged this election cycle as one of Mrs. Clinton’s loudest critics, said the Justice Department made a mistake in not prosecuting the former secretary of state, who continues to wrongly claim she did not send or receive any classified information on her private email server.
An FBI investigation found that classified information was, in fact, on her private account, though federal officials decided against pressing charges against her.
“Many reasonable prosecutors have come to the conclusion that they would have brought such a case. I would have brought such a case. I would have won such a case,” Mr. Giuliani, a former federal prosecutor, told ABC’s “This Week.” “I’ve prosecuted cases like that in my years at the Justice Department. Hillary Clinton skated because she’s running for president. She clearly violated the law.”
Agree a major defeat that Trump will have againt Hillary will make the name ‘Trump’ equate to toxic LOSER. New or old business deals will start drying up because in running for president, he had to reveal his true ugly racist, misogynistic, tax evading, bankrupt prone, bullying, Napoleonic nature and most major companies including in other countries will start refusing to do business with him. After this election does anyone really want another building named after ‘Trump’ in their city? Will any media company give Trump another reality show? Does any company want Trump to endorse their product or real estate development?
sarge22 – Despite Mr. Guiliani’s lying about this, he never prosecuted a similar case.
He’s a Trump supporter and he sees Mr. Trump dropping further every minute in the polls. So lying about anything is all they have left.
inverse – You’re right of course. That movement has already started with residents of condo buildings in Canada and the United States preparing lawsuits to remove the name Trump from their homes. Mr. Trump is now an international laughingstock and overt racist. Who would want that name on their building, other than maybe a Ku Klux Klan retirement community?
A really humiliating loss – particularly one that drags the Senate down with him – would go a long way toward destroying his brand. He’s heading that way now. Thankfully.
You lie. Hillary Clinton started the birther movement. So says the Washington Post. http://www.breitbart.com/big-journalism/2015/09/26/washington-post-confirms-hillary-clinton-started-the-birther-movement/
Yeah sarge22 the Kenyan guy with a US citizenship who else. And Giuliani he one lolo. He wants to go into business with Mr. Trump, money, money, money. He doesn’t care if he’ll make a good president as long as he can profit from it.
amela…Very weak and untrue. Phd in lying from HiLIARy U. Klastri taught you well. You are grasping at straws. Trump2016
Klastri, and will Hawaii’s born President Obama will unlock and release his Occidental and Harvard applications and transcripts?
kuroiwaj – No
Any more questions?
Klastri, Where was Obama on 9/11-12/2012 while his Secretary of State executed four Americans in Benghazi? Lock them both up.
Who cares where the President is? He is on a well deserved vacation and his approval rating is at 54%. While he is soaring the Chumps as- is being kicked to Kingdom come.
Kuro,,listen to yourself. So, vast is the conspiracy that even Harvard Law, one of the world’s foremost insitution on the study of law, was involved in your fictional conspiracy???
Please, now you are just sounding pathetically crazy….I notice you never make inquiries on Clarence Thomas at Yale Law–and George W. At Yale undergrad–why is that?
Crooked Hillary will say anything and do nothing. Obama 2008.She cares less about you. All she cares about is herself. What has she done for America? Nada. She lies to Americans. Do not listen to this bad lady.
Trump employs hundreds of locals in Hawaii. He contributes to our economy. He pays millions in local and State tax. Hillary pays nothing.
MichaelG, I want you to read the definition of a bigot.
a person who is utterly intolerant of any differing creed, belief, or opinion.
Now think what Obama has done to the white race in terms of our police being slaughtered by blacks.
He will support them all the time without knowing the circumstances.
Pick up your marbles and go home. Game over. Here Ha!
Gee, that will upset all the Fox reporters.
As a latino, I am sick and tired of Democrats trying to call everyone who disagrees with their sick views Racists. Donald Trump represents the hard working, God loving values of Latino Americans more than the party of Jim Crow. You people are only good at putting people into groups and tryinf to tell us how we should think. Well it is not working so stop the sickening race baiting and shut your mouths if you don’t have anything positive to say.
Spot on, great post!
You are definitely a white guy posing as a Latino. The Chumps camp is imploding and desperate measures need to be taken.
Klastri, you must be hallucinating again.
All you can do as a citizen is vote and get everyone you know to vote too. If you don’t vote, then don’t grumble if the election doesn’t go your way.
Will he? I’m pretty sure he has already. lol
I think Trump will say anything to win. Tear down the wall. No fees on immigration form. Open Visa appli for all countries. Stuff like that. Then when he gets the votes and wins. “Ops!!!! I changed my mind.”
You mean lying A$$ Hilary don’t you!
You certainly are sophisticated!
Trump supporter?
He will say and lie about anything to win. He does that every other day. If he says something wrong he’ll come back with “I was just joking”. Look how desparate he is endorsing Ryan and McCain after he talk sh#t about them. If they except his endorsement then they have no face.
She will say and lie about anything to win. CLASSIFIED EMAILS—BENGHAZI
Proven liar and still lying as we post.
So, unlike some of my fellow posters here, let’s address this question, sans the ideology and political talking points, which btw, is the nadir of intellectual thinking. Rather, how about we look at a historical overview and combine that with relieve last nominal values–these will provide a far more accurate answer to this question.
OK, in the contemporary era, tthe high-water mark for Latino support of a Republican presidential candidate was 44 percent for President George W. Bush in 2004. By 2008, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) earned 31 percent. And Mitt Romney could muster just 27 percent in 2012. This was after a campaign in which he called on undocumented immigrants to “self deport” during the 2012 election. Trump has said much worse. His rhetorical abuse of a federal judge “of Mexican heritage” who also is deciding lawsuits against Trump University is but the latest example.
The question is whether replicating Romney’s 2012 Latino support or even 30 percen, will be enough for Trump to slide into the White House. And the clear answer is is NO.
According to three scenarios in a 2015 analysis by Latino Decisions, that magic number on a national level starts at 42 percent of the Latino vote. This “best-case scenario for the GOP” requires “the expected growth in the Latino vote [to] not fully materialize, the white vote to perform at 2014 levels and the African American vote to sink to “pre-[President] Obama levels.” The worst-case scenario envisions Republicans needing to snare 52 percent of the Hispanic vote in an environment that “recreates the voting behavior that facilitated President Obama’s reelection” and sees an increase in Latino voter participation.
David Damore and Matt Barreto at Latino Decisions went the extra step of looking at six swing states with large or emerging Latino electorates and whose electoral votes will be infinitely more important than total national vote. They can only be described as rough terrain for the Republican Party. Below are those states and the percentage of Latino vote needed for the GOP nominee to win the state, assuming black turnout is not as high in November as it was in 2008 or 2012 and the Latino share of the electorate “slightly increases.”
New Mexico (42 percent): Obama won this state in 2012. Exit polls show Latinos were 37 percent of the electorate. Romney got 29 percent of that vote. Obama got 65 percent.
Ohio (43 percent): Obama won this state in 2012. Exit polls show Latinos were 3 percent of the electorate. Romney got 42 percent of that vote. Obama got 54 percent.
Colorado (44 percent): Obama won this state in 2012. Exit polls show Latinos were 14 percent of the electorate. Romney got 23 percent of that vote. Obama got 75 percent.
Nevada (45 percent): Obama won this state in 2012. Exit polls show Latinos were 19 percent of the electorate. Romney got 24 percent of that vote. Obama got 71 percent.
Virginia (46 percent): Obama won this state in 2012. Exit polls show Latinos were 5 percent of the electorate. Romney got 33 percent of that vote. Obama got 64 percent.
Florida (47 percent): Obama won this state in 2012. Exit polls show Latinos were 17 percent of the electorate. Romney got 39 percent of that vote. Obama got 60 percent.
The Latino Decisions battleground survey from April shows that Trump’s unfavorable rating is an astronomical 87 percent among Latino registered voters. It’s 91 percent in Colorado, 87 percent in Nevada and 84 percent in Florida.. Reviewing more current data as of last month, Trump still had an exorbitantly high unfavorable rating near 81%.
Summarily, Trump needs near 40% of this crucial vote to make a legitimate play for the White House, and presently, even if he wildly turned it around, would be very lucky to break into the 20% range…….
Ahhhh, yet again, when provided with the relevant history and germane numbers, this turns out to be another……chirp, chirp….awkward silence.
How to fill a sinkhole
Simply dig another hole next to the sinkhole and use the dirt to fill the sinkhole.
Then dig another hole next to the recent hole and use that dirt etc etc etc etc
Continue to do this until you run out of dirt ……. and perhaps by then your term in office
will be over
SA is on your side so don’t get too excited. “comment is awaiting moderation.”
Sarge, first the comment was not moderated. Second, and more important, when you answer questions with the actual history and relevant numbers, the answers are easy as they speak for themselves and that is why you end up on the short side of the stick on so many of these debates…..
Ike—I realize it’s all about you but I was referring to my comment awaiting moderation. We all know about the history and what a wimp Romney was. We will see how Mr Trump does in the future as he concentrates on lying HiLIARyc
I’m curious why someone so obviously convinced as you are of a Clinton victory would spend so much effort trying to convince everyone else?
You’re here, all up on Johnson’s business, are you not??
So, here is a suggestion, if I want your opinion or vantage, I tap you on the shoulder….til then, kick rocks.
Ike can’t sleep at night waiting for the next email release. Wiki wiki
Well, ikey, it’s always comes out eventually doesn’t it?
What comes out? You got something to say…spit it out.
hawaiikone – If you want to be a moderator here (you obviously do, since you play one on here every day) then maybe try to get a job at SA?
Funny how binary facts are so daunting and intimidating for some……
Who woke up the parrot?
The hate and anger quickly surfaces when feathers get a little ruffled. The very same attitude both of you spend countless hours dissing Trump about seems ingrained in your characters as well. You wanna vote for Clinton? Fine. I will continue to support Johnson, and, as so many others consider Hillary as equally distasteful as Trump, will encourage them to do the same. I might suggest though, if your angered by my questions, simply don’t respond.
Anger connotes that you have form of consequences for me–you are inconsequential –akin to your commentary on the old pipe smoker. It is you that obviously has a feather ruffled, otherwise you would not have taken the affirmative step of placing the comment.
But, alas you are in long line of passive aggressive folks, that take the time held cowardly action of talking boldy with force and tone on some internet site, which you know, down deep, know you would never take in person….
hawaiikone, I think you touched a nerve (ike’s) and got under his thin skin going by his response.
hawaiikone…oh my! You did the same to you know who as you did to ike!
Ahhh, all the third graders are coming out. It’s too bad when the facts and figures also make their presence known, folks run and hide. Cowards are a very social type, as they band together, as they know if they were just by themselves, they would do what they naturally do–run.
ikey, first, a simple question as to why you post each day lengthy dissertations guaranteeing Clinton’s victory seems odd, especially since you repeatedly remark that your facts are unchallenged. To suspect that such an effort might be due a lack of confidence in your own dialogue is not unreasonable, and certainly doesn’t warrant such a curt string of responses, ending with your labeling me a coward. You’re the one angered, not me, and your attempt at bullying via keyboard matches your own characterization of internet bravado far more closely than anything I have posted.
Hmmmn, you might notice Hawai’i,that in most of my posts I never make mention of HRC, in fact in this last string, there is nary a mention of her. Not like some folks, who basically get on a soapbox to promote a specific candidate.
Most of the time, improvise raw data and emperical background on the race-period. Now, if you are feeling so froggy, I would more than love to meet your acquaintance so you personally debrief me on all the wonders and the third party.
Well, I can appreciate that sentiment, as you refused to commit to Hillary when I asked before. Your comments point out Trump’s non existent chances of victory, so you’re either for her, going third party, or not voting. Extolling the credentials of a voter’s candidate is far preferable to redundant attacks on their opponent, which I try and do. I’m not naive enough to overestimate Johnson’s chances, but I honestly believe he’s the best candidate. You’d like to make my acquaintance? Or meet me to discuss Gary? If the former, pleased to meet you, if the later, I’m always at Mililani Jack in the box on Tuesday mornings.
Alas, I go back to for orientation, as the new students arrive this week for the fall semester, but I’ll will be back home in about 3 weeks, and we could possibly meet then…..
Absolutely. The coffee is on me..
Ike, for the record, in the 2012 Presidential; 118 million American citizens voted, 15.3 million were Black, 11.8 million were Hispanic, 3.5 million were Asian, 85 million were White, and 2.5 million other. The general objective is to have 50% plus one of the American votes cast which is 59 million plus 1 votes based on 2012 results.
Except that’s not the objective. Good grief, don’t you know anything? The only think that matters is the electoral college – not the popular vote. Don’t you ever read?
The problem for Mr. Trump is that there aren’t enough poorly educated, failed, white supremacist or angry white men in that total.
Too Bad!
Klastri, poor Klastri. If Mr. Trump wins 50% plus 1 vote in each State, he wins that State electoral votes. Never posted that to become President the candidate must win the Nations “popular” vote. It’s your assumption. Mr. Trump will win the electoral vote, State by State. Klastri, please stay focused.
Kuro, show me one poll, just one, a single one, in the last 5-6 days, that shows Trump having a legitimate path. RNC and other R entities, have already discussed, internally, of conceding the White House, to protect down stream races….why is that???
kuroiwaj – You wrote “The general objective is to have 50% plus one of the American votes cast which is 59 million plus 1 votes based on 2012 results.” Which is demonstrably untrue.
So, it appears that you looked it up on Google, and then pretended you didn’t write what you wrote. And then lied that I made a mistake.
You certainly are a Trump supporter!
Klas, you have to treat Kuro gently. He fancies himself a R insider, however his biggest claim to fame is the ill-fated, Poseidonesque, Governor race that was lost by Pat Saiki, after being way out in front., in which he was part of the leadership group. A prominent R political campaign strategist called it the worse run political race in modern history. So, be gentle, he is still hurting…
The sudden, unexplained death of an attorney who led the lawsuit against DNC corruption is riling social media, even as the mainstream media tries to keep it out of the headlines.
Shawn Lucas, a Bernie Sanders supporter, is the man who served the DNC with legal papers in a lawsuit alleging fraud.
That allegation was proven true just a week later when Wikileaks released DNC emails showing collusion to fix the primary for Hillary Clinton over Sanders.
Lucas’ death is the third suspicious death in the past 2 months linked to the DNC and Clinton.
Lucas died suddenly, and because he is a young man, people are concerned that his death could been connected to his role as the process server for the DNC lawsuit. Lucas was named in a motion filed on July 22, 2016 by the DNC, seeking to dismiss the suit on a technicality.
Snopes reports that Lucas was found lying on the bathroom floor by his girlfriend when she returned home on the evening of 2 August 2016. Paramedics responding to her 911 call found no signs of life.
The cause of death is “unknown,” according to authorities, despite the passage of 3 days since.
Can we stick to the subject at hand or at least wait until the topic you want to pursue is the central theme of an article. It’s terribly self-serving and discourteous to those who want to actually comment on THIS topic……
Sorry but have to get the word out. SA doesn’t cover these anti HiLIARy stories. Free speech prevails ilo moderation. This is the real dark side of the Clintons. Vince Foster?
And, btw, per the mouth of Gary himself, unless he was polling in the high teens by the end of the month or almost 20%, they would have no chance at all. See:http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/
I just gave you the number, and that was per the RNC own numbers….the percentage is relative to,each demographic group.
Ikefromeli, a lot can happen when Crooked Hilliary is one hill of a tainted candidate.
She has to stay away from press conferences and debates. No more ah,ah,um,um, I, zzzzzt, short circuits.
Ikefromeli, I can’t wait until the debates. From now until then all your figures will mean nothing. You are smart enough to know Trump is going for the jugular. Blood will be coming out of her every hole. Wouldn’t surprise me if she was a no show.
Debate? The chicken s-it Chump will find a way out. All Hilliary needs to do is push his panic button and he will lose it, game over. Can’t wait for it and see his as- get kicked.
She couldn’t handle a lousy press conference, first one in 300 days, with questions gift wrapped with pink ribbons posed by a Latina. She was sh-ting bricks. She was doing the um ah um ah um ah. Calling the FBI Director a liar. Has this woman no shame? They had to stop because they thought her brain short circuited or something. Had a burning wire smell. She’ll have to bring a circuit breaker, fire extinguisher and a stretcher to the debate. You are defending the indefensible.
Tita, it is over your camp is at stage 4. Aloha oe
Les, you would be well advised to review congressional records, where many R senators have commented that HRC is one of most prepared and articulate public policy wonks out there…..
Donald would be best advised to curb himself to few worlds and even fewer thoughts….
I don’t think they will allow teleprompters in this debate. Trump will not be a gentleman like Bernie. He’ll go after her record, 8 years as First Lady taking government property, “She will say anything and do nothing” Obama 08. 4 years as Secretary of State, the biggest mistake Obama made and 8 years in the Senate of 4 minor bills not even worth mentioning.
How many bills or political initiatives has trump been the author of??! Yup, that answer would be zilch…..
Teleprompters? They have him reading cue cards. In other words he is being breast fed. Rumor is that they are looking for a pacifier to fit his big mouth.
I’ve also heard that they will coat the pacifier with numbzit so should the pacifier fall out, his mouth won’t be able to work.
Amazing that he is the brunt of my jokes . The fact is that he makes it so easy because he says things that are so stupid.
No need moderate I think I’ve made my point.
They rarely have TelePrompters in committee meetings on the hill….
Whoever wrote this article seems to think all Hispanics who are not citizens are legal immigrants and ignores the fact that many are not. They are not immigrants, they are illegal aliens and that’s why they can’t be U.S. citizens or vote. Sorry. As for everybody else, they should endeavor to become U.S. citizens so that they can vote. The Feds and States spend considerable resources to help them achieve U.S. citizenship — English language classes, citizenship classes and voting materials in many different languages and translators to help them vote once they are eligible. Use these resources that all of us are paying for. We want to achieve your dreams and vote.
Kasich hints at Trump endorsement, says Ohio victory ‘really difficult’.
The Republicans need to unite. Let’s send Klastri and Ike back to the Stone Age.
I still think it’s odd that you think and write about me so often.
I (still) never think about you. Not ever.
Figured I’d just let you know that my wife read several of your posts and she asked me why I was communicating with a “proud racist imbecile.” That’s a really good question (I kind of enjoyed pointing out your manifestly failed arguments all the time) but she’s right of course. So I won’t any more.
Good luck marinating in your ignorance and racism.
Klastri, I agree. You should listen to your wife. I will miss your affectations.
Liar, liar, pants on fire….
WASHINGTON – Win or lose this November, Donald Trump is headed for the record books regardless, presidential historians say, albeit with an admittedly dubious achievement: the most falsehood-prone candidate in the two centuries of the republic.
“In American history, we’ve never had a major presidential candidate who fabricated facts with the regularity of Donald Trump,” said Douglas Brinkley, a history professor at Rice University. “He just simply makes up things.”
In the span of a few days last week, Trump falsely claimed that the NFL had sent him a letter complaining about this autumn’s debate schedule, when in fact it had not. He claimed that the Koch brothers had tried to meet with him about offering their support, when in reality they had no interest in doing so. And, most astonishingly, he claimed he had seen a video showing hundreds of millions of dollars being unloaded from a plane in Iran, fabricating embellishments about the video’s provenance, even after his campaign conceded that no such video existed.
Theda Skocpol, a government and sociology professor at Harvard, agreed that Trump’s dishonesties have set a new standard. “Trump lies constantly and shamelessly. I do think he is in new territory,” she said.
GOP leaders trying to attack Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton over her problems with honesty, meanwhile, are growing increasingly frustrated with their own candidate’s near-daily false statements. “What can I say? We nominated a fabulist,” said one top Republican official privately. “There’s no defending that.”
Trump’s willingness to say things that are probably untrue, of course, is not something that began with his campaign. The 70-year-old has been known for his exaggerations and outright fabrications for decades.
When he bought the Eastern Airlines Washington-to-New York shuttle in 1989 and renamed it Trump Airlines, he claimed, without any facts, that the other carrier operating that route did not maintain its planes as well as he did.
Throughout the 1990s and 2000s, he claimed stakes in properties in which he had no ownership interest, but was merely licensing the use of his name or was in line to collect a percentage of future profits. When confronted by lawyers in a 2007 deposition about this, he at first insisted that he was correct, but then replied that not having ownership was actually smarter because it was not possible for him to lose any money should the investment tank.
In 1991, at the age of 45, he invented a pseudonym for himself, called a gossip columnist and told her that “his boss,” Donald Trump, was dating Italian model Carla Bruni, when in fact he’d met her only once, a year earlier.
Last summer, in the early stages of his campaign, he told a Rolling Stone reporter riding aboard his private jetliner that it was larger than Air Force One – even though his Boeing 757 is nowhere near the size of the modified 747 used by the president.
And this spring – still stinging from former GOP nominee Mitt Romney’s speech ridiculing his various failed branded businesses – Trump pointed to a table of raw steaks and declared them “Trump Steaks,” even though that product has not been available for close to a decade.
A Republican consultant close to the Trump campaign, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said Trump’s behavior is typical among wealthy candidates he has worked with.
“All those years in public life, nobody cared about the veracity of statements they made outside their business, which is the only place truth matters to them,” the consultant said. “Many people ― close staff, family ― let him go on about things for years and just roll their eyes, some afraid to say, ‘Stop it.’ Because it’s a sideshow, doesn’t matter. Then, suddenly, it matters. But the habit is there, set in stone.”
Set in stone….
Below we chronicle just 21 of the myriad Clinton Cash-related revelations that have emerged since the book’s publication—all of which have been confirmed and verified as accurate by national media organizations.
Huffington Post: Clintons Bagged at Least $3.4 Million for 18 Speeches Funded by Keystone Pipeline Banks
Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and TD Bank—two of the Keystone XL pipeline’s largest investors—fully or partially bankrolled eight Hillary Clinton speeches that “put more than $1.6 million in the Democratic candidate’s pocket,” reports the Huffington Post.
Moreover, according to Clinton Cash, during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Sec. of State, Bill Clinton delivered 10 speeches from Nov. 2008 to mid-2011 totaling $1.8 million paid for by TD Bank, which held a $1.6 billion investment in the Keystone XL pipeline.
The Clintons’ speaking fees windfall, which has infuriated environmental groups, have yet to be addressed by Hillary Clinton.
New York Times: Clinton Foundation Shook Down a Tiny Tsunami Relief Nonprofit for a $500,000 Speaking Fee
Bill Clinton refused to give a speech for a tiny nonprofit seeking to raise money for tsunami victims until the group agreed to pay a $500,000 speaking fee to the Clinton Foundation. The Times reported that the Clinton Foundation “sent the charity an invoice,” which “amounted to almost a quarter of the evening’s net proceeds—enough to build 10 preschools in Indonesia.”
New York Magazine: Clinton Foundation “Strong-Armed” Charity Watchdog Group
When “the Clinton Foundation wound up on a ‘watch list’ maintained by the Charity Navigator, dubbed the ‘most prominent’ nonprofit watchdog,” reported New York Magazine writer Gabriel Sherman, “the Foundation attempted to strong-arm them by calling a Navigator board member.”
International Business Times: Hillary Clinton’s State Dept. Gave Clinton Foundation Donors Weapons Deals
“Under Clinton’s leadership, the State Department approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments have given money to the Clinton Foundation, according to an IBTimes analysis of State Department and foundation data,” reports IBT. “That figure—derived from the three full fiscal years of Clinton’s term as Secretary of State (from October 2010 to September 2012)—represented nearly double the value of American arms sales made to the those countries and approved by the State Department during the same period of President George W. Bush’s second term.”
Salon, MotherJones, HuffingtonPost, Slate, and several other liberal publications reported on IBT’s findings.
Washington Post: Clintons Hid 1,100 Foreign Donor Names in Violation of Ethics Agreement with Obama Admin.
Clinton Cash revealed five hidden foreign donations. On the heels of the book’s publication, the Washington Post uncovered another 1,100 foreign donor names hidden in the Canada-based Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership—a Clinton Foundation initiative Bill Clinton erected with controversial billionaire mining executive Frank Giustra.
“A charity affiliated with the Clinton Foundation failed to reveal the identities of its 1,100 donors, creating a broad exception to the foundation’s promise to disclose funding sources as part of an ethics agreement with the Obama administration,” reports the Washington Post. “The number of undisclosed contributors to the charity, the Canada-based Clinton Giustra Enterprise Partnership, signals a larger zone of secrecy around foundation donors than was previously known.”
In a follow-up story, the Post reports that only 21 of Frank Giustra and Bill Clinton’s secret 1,100 foreign donors have subsequently been revealed. If and when the other 1,079 hidden donors names will be revealed is presently unclear—and will be the subject of forthcoming investigative reports by Breitbart News.