Donald Trump's kryptonite: millions of active – and furious – Latino voters [View all]
Barely a day goes by when Donald Trump offers Latino something new to get riled up about. In a Cinco de Mayo tweet on Thursday, for example, he declared I love Hispanics! in the caption to a selfie that showed him digging into a taco bowl at his desk.
This cant be serious, said my Mexican cousin. No words, wrote a Cuban colleague. No and disgusting were just some of the other comments my Latino friends both Democratic and Republican posted after I uploaded a screen shot of the tweet to my Facebook page.
The presidential candidate started his campaign by saying that Mexicans are rapists and criminals. He then extended his hateful remarks to include those coming from all over South and Latin America and the Middle East, vowed to deport all undocumented immigrants and bar all Muslims, and proposes rescinding birthright citizenship and building a great wall between us Mexico. And yet, he is now the presumptive Republican nominee.
And its apparently dawned on him that he might need some of the approximately 27.3 million Latino eligible voters to cast a ballot for him if he actually wants to win.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/may/09/latino-voter-turnout-trump-kryptonite