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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,741 posts)
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:51 PM Dec 2016

On the El Paso border, Trumps appeal with Latinos defies expectations

EL PASO, Texas — Ramon De La Rosa predicts it’ll take President-elect Donald Trump just six months to make America great again.

The 73-year-old is eager to see Trump bring back jobs from places such as China and stop taxing hard-working Americans to pay for food stamps and other entitlement programs.

When Trump launched his presidential campaign and labeled Mexicans who enter the country illegally as rapists, criminals and drug dealers, De La Rosa, who was born in Mexico and crossed the border at 17 to become a U.S. resident, was not offended. It also didn’t faze him that Trump pledged to build a massive wall along the border here in an effort to keep people just like him out.

“I know he didn’t mean that about all Mexicans,” De La Rosa said, noting that Trump just talks like a “tontito,” a Spanish term meaning “fool.” “He knows nothing about politics and nothing about speaking politically correct.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-the-el-paso-border-trumps-appeal-with-latinos-defies-expectations/2016/12/09/9bc508c6-b01e-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html?utm_term=.2cd6e7bc9574&wpisrc=nl_rainbow&wpmm=1

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On the El Paso border, Trumps appeal with Latinos defies expectations (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Dec 2016 OP
When Trump comes for De La Rosa, muntrv Dec 2016 #1
So, Mr De La Rosa, you support a President who knows nothing about politics... malthaussen Dec 2016 #2
That's some representative sample (Don Ramon) Douglas Kawasaki Dec 2016 #3
too bad Trump is now a politician and he was one when he was running for president Angry Dragon Dec 2016 #4
So, Mr De La Rosa, you support a President who knows nothing about politics... LenaBaby61 Dec 2016 #5
Sounds like all we need is to assure him realmirage Dec 2016 #11
Cheeto Hombre is not the tontito in this article! /nt sdfernando Dec 2016 #6
Clinton won El Paso county by over 40 points Orangepeel Dec 2016 #7
+1,000!!! Thanks for the numbers and perspective AgadorSparticus Dec 2016 #8
Yep Dem2 Dec 2016 #9
maybe time for a letter to the ombudsman then? 0rganism Dec 2016 #10

malthaussen

(17,175 posts)
2. So, Mr De La Rosa, you support a President who knows nothing about politics...
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:57 PM
Dec 2016

... and speaks like a fool? May I ask what criteria you use to vote, then?

-- Mal

 

Douglas Kawasaki

(51 posts)
3. That's some representative sample (Don Ramon)
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 03:59 PM
Dec 2016

In the absence of latino-voting exit poll data for El Paso, any journalist can claim that Latinos prefer worm ice cream over apple juice, for instance. Because Ramon said so.

LenaBaby61

(6,972 posts)
5. So, Mr De La Rosa, you support a President who knows nothing about politics...
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 04:11 PM
Dec 2016

Is this one of the dumb-ass deplorables--er, I mean "nice, kind folks" that the Democrats are supposed to be going after hard core?

You know, to sway him to OUR side?

Yeah or naw?

Orangepeel

(13,933 posts)
7. Clinton won El Paso county by over 40 points
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 04:22 PM
Dec 2016

Ramon doesn't have a whole lot of company.

US PRESIDENT
191 of 191 Precincts Reporting (Combined) Detail Map
Votes Percent
DONALD J. TRUMP (REP) 55,512 25.71%
HILLARY CLINTON (DEM) 147,843 68.47%
GARY JOHNSON (LIB) 7,607 3.52%
JILL STEIN (GRN) 2,945 1.36%
WRITE-IN 2,015 0.93%
Total 215,922

http://results.enr.clarityelections.com/TX/El_Paso/64709/184086/Web01/en/summary.html

Dem2

(8,166 posts)
9. Yep
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 04:30 PM
Dec 2016

This implication that Trump owns places he won by 0.3% and even places he lost by 40 points is asinine and we need to stop falling for it.

0rganism

(23,927 posts)
10. maybe time for a letter to the ombudsman then?
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 04:44 PM
Dec 2016

they'll push this kind of fluff every minute of every day for the next 4 years if there isn't significant pushback

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