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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe GOP's Trump Problem -- the GOP's 2016 Hispanic strategy is being torpedoed by the Donald
Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, John Ellis Bush who speaks Spanish at home to his Mexican wife.....and then Trump.
Assuming Trump is not just batshit crazy (a big jump admittedly), Trump's strategy, his only hope, for getting the nomination is to destroy the party's vision for rolling conservative hispanics in with their loyal angry white male voters. The GOP knows they have done extremely poorly with groups outside of socially conservative whites and they see the rising proportion of Hispanic voters as a new segment for their agendas. Trump doesn't fit into that, at all.
Trump likely knows that.
Trump seems to be executing the political equivalent of a poison pill strategy believing that if he does enough damage, puts enough of a wedge between the GOP and hispanics, that they will have no choice but to abandon diversity and go back to their dog whistle racism. In other words if Trump lays down enough hateful landmines between GOP voters and hispanics then Cruz, Rubio and Bush won't be viable candidates for the GOP.
gordianot
(15,249 posts)Where Democrats cave in to threats Republicans find no threat they are not willing to embrace.
pennylane100
(3,425 posts)but there are still several more clowns that are far more electable than him. If I had to pick one candidate that did not make me puke, just nauseous, I would pick Pataki.
GreatGazoo
(3,937 posts)TlalocW
(15,392 posts)Eventually another one of the candidates would. There was an article that showed decades of quotes that were all along the lines of, "The GOP needs to do a better job reaching women and minorities," that different republican mucky-mucks said after a republican loss. They don't know how to campaign to non-white men.
TlalocW