Three in four Latinos say they have a negative view of Donald Trump, and more than half believe that his comments about Mexican immigrants were racist and inappropriate, according to a new NBC News/ Wall Street Journal/ Telemundo poll. CONT. Carrie Dann, NBC News Read more »
GOP and Latinos: On immigration, history shows the way
On the question of immigration, the Republican Party is at a crossroads. The party could take the Jeb Bush approach. “The way I look at this,” Bush said last year, “is someone who comes to our country because they couldn’t come legally, they come to our country because their families […] Read more »
A big majority of Americans are ‘soft’ on immigration, they probably just won’t vote that way
… Six in 10 Americans support the idea of allowing undocumented immigrants already in the United States to remain and, with some conditions, gain the status needed to work legally. A slightly smaller but still majority stake of Americans, 57 percent, agree that immigrants strengthen American society. Still, those opinions […] Read more »
Immigration Critics Drive Trump Surge; Yet Most Americans Favor Legal Status
Donald Trump’s visit to the U.S.-Mexico border marks the extent to which negative views on immigration fuel his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination – and the limits they may impose. About half of potential GOP voters in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll oppose a path to legal status […] Read more »
California GOP worries that Trump’s trash talk could hurt its image
… For years California Republicans have tried to change their party’s image, to invite everyone into the pool — especially Latinos, whose enmity arose after a 1994 GOP effort to block immigrants without proper papers from state services. And now, the architecturally coiffed, anger-venting Trump has cannonballed in, disrupting the […] Read more »
Stop laughing at Donald Trump
He may not have a shot at becoming president, but Donald Trump has already succeeded in uniting America — one nation, awash in snark. … But writing Trump off is dangerous. The billionaire may play the buffoon, but he is an important one — one whom Americans appear to adore. […] Read more »