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NBC News reports:
President Donald Trump, looking to put New Mexico in play in 2020, sought to win over Hispanic voters at a rally here Monday. The president’s pitch to Hispanic voters seemed to silo them off from the rest of the electorate, including the rally crowd (“We love our Hispanics.”) It featured an assertion that they had a greater understanding of the source of the drug problem than other Americans.
And it included a section in which Trump wondered how CNN contributor Steve Cortes could be Hispanic even though, the president said, he appeared to be of Northern European descent. “He happens to be Hispanic, but I never quite figured it out because he looks more like a WASP than I do,” Trump said of Cortes, who was in the audience.
From the stage, he asked Cortes: “Who do you love more, the country or Hispanics?” Cortes appeared to mouth “country,” to which Trump replied “I don’t know. I may have to go for the Hispanics, to be honest with you. We got a lot of Hispanics.”
President Trump asks his supporter Steve Cortes in the middle of the rally: “Who do you like more, the country or the hispanics? He says the country, I dont know. I may have to go with the hispanics to be honest with you. we’ve got a lot of hispanics.” pic.twitter.com/cuFg0hF9qf
— Salvador Hernandez (@SalHernandez) September 17, 2019
Trump, making a pitch to Hispanics, says that Hispanics “want the wall.” National polling of Hispanics shows strong-majority opposition to the wall.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 17, 2019
We’re barely one month removed from the deadliest anti-Latino shooting & President Trump is back to spewing the racist rhetoric that incited that shooting.
At his New Mexico rally, he asked his supporters: “Who do you like more, the country or the hispanics?
This is sickening. https://t.co/VWzAlT7nm1
— Latino Victory (@latinovictoryus) September 17, 2019
“… our Hispanics…”
Unfortunatelty for Trump, Hispanics don’t love him, at all.
Trump’s anti-Hispanic and anti-immigrant rhetoric only puts our community at risk and tonight it was clear why he isn’t welcomed in the Land of Enchantment. https://t.co/pwXX96anPl
— Latino Victory (@latinovictoryus) September 17, 2019