GOP Faces Uphill Climb With Latino Voters In Key Swing State Of Colorado. Is Trump Doomed?

2015-10-30T14:29:40-04:00

The Donald, and his anti-immigrant posturing, loom large.

AntiAssociate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post
Posted: 10/29/2015 07:53 PM EDT | Edited: 3 hours ago

JOE AMON VIA GETTY IMAGES
BOULDER, Colo. -- Minutes before presidential candidates took the stage at Wednesday's Republican primary debate, an evangelical pastor stepped to a microphone and told of being brought into the U.S. illegally by her mother, and how she didn’t deserve to be vilified by politicians who neither understand nor care for her struggle for a better life.

“My mom and I were taken to a deportation facility,"said the Rev. Vanessa Guzman, also a real estate agent from Lakewood, a nearby Denver suburb. "For a week I stayed there, with enough clothes that could fill a trash bag. And we were sent back to Mexico. But my mom es una luchadora. And she went back to the United States and she knew that this is the place she called home.”

Guzman, now pursuing a masters of divinity degree at Denver Seminary, explained that she had a higher calling.

“This is where God lands," Guzman told The Huffington Post following her speech. "God is with the people that are being oppressed. Right now, these are the people. I’m sure you’ve heard the comments. This is the civil movement of our time. That’s why I’m here.”

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GOP Faces Uphill Climb With Latino Voters In Key Swing State Of Colorado

The Donald, and his anti-immigrant posturing, loom large.

Response by SSgt Alex Robinson made Oct 30 at 2015 2:31 PM

2015-10-30T14:31:22-04:00

He will do just fine. Let's see who the nominee is tho

Response by LTC Stephen F. made Oct 30 at 2015 2:32 PM

2015-10-30T14:32:04-04:00

Trump may be doomed SGT Private RallyPoint Member. However my Cuban wife, her mother and many other latinos and latinas vote conservative which in this state [Virginia]means they generally support republican candidates.

Response by 1stSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 30 at 2015 2:41 PM

2015-10-30T14:41:55-04:00

I like what Trump has brought to the forefront, but not the way he does it. I think he was done in the beginning. The real losers from that debate was the moderators. They were horrible and sucked quite bad.

Response by SSG Michael Hartsfield made Oct 30 at 2015 2:46 PM

2015-10-30T14:46:47-04:00

I don't think that saying Mexico only brings crime and rapists to the US will resonate well with the whole of Latino voters

Response by SPC(P) Private RallyPoint Member made Oct 30 at 2015 3:26 PM

2015-10-30T15:26:58-04:00

You can't please everyone... unfortunately with states like California allowing illegal immigrants the right to vote, I am sure that anyone who wants to fix the broken border and immigration system is in for an uphill battle.

Response by SGT Jeremiah B. made Oct 30 at 2015 3:45 PM

2015-10-30T15:45:24-04:00

A lot of the Hispanic community is conservative, but the GOP has been absolutely inept in handling minorities. By and large, a lot of the GOP "noise" is racially charged, if well-intentioned, which leads to a divide. It is still the party of old, white men. A lot of the ones I talk to aren't huge fans of illegal immigration either, but have a much more nuanced approach and are even less fans of laws like AZ SB1070 that would have essentially made it perfectly legal for a police officer to harass the hell out of them because they look too Mexican.

Response by BG David Fleming III made Oct 30 at 2015 4:29 PM

2015-10-30T16:29:33-04:00

Doesn't he have enough money to buy their vote? Not!!!! What's he thinking?

Response by CPT Jack Durish made Oct 30 at 2015 8:38 PM

2015-10-30T20:38:36-04:00

I love the comments that profess that many in the Latino community are conservative. I'm sure that they are. However, exit polling show that Latinos, like blacks, Jews, and other minorities, vote predominantly Democratic. It is doubtful that Trump's verbal effluent will alter this record one way or the other. The question is will his stand incite conservatives to get off their duffs and vote. The minorities cannot alone determine the outcome of elections. The problem that the GOP faces is that their base votes on a single issue. They hear their candidates say just one thing that they disagree with and they won't turn out to support them. Democrats, on the other hand, likewise vote on single issues. They hear their candidates say just one thing they agree with and they'll turn out to support them even if their candidates also say many other things that are contradictory or simply offensive to the Democratic base.

That being said, I don't think the GOP has an uphill battle in appealing to Latinos or any other minority group. I believe they face a stone wall with no hope...

Response by LTC Christopher Sands made Nov 1 at 2015 12:01 PM

2015-11-01T12:01:33-05:00

Anti- Illegal Immigrant. There is a difference.

Response by SSgt Private RallyPoint Member made Nov 9 at 2015 8:31 PM

2015-11-09T20:31:46-05:00

The far left-wing is the politics of personal destruction.
For example during one of the races for Governer of
Arkansas, allowed misinfomation about John Paul Hammerschmidt
to not go challlenged and found out to be a lie. w/o which, He would'
never been president.