Donald Trump Wins Hispanic Vote in Nevada; Do Latinos Love Him Now?
Donald Trump apparently won in this week's caucus in Nevada where a significant number of voters are Latino.
Despite his infamous comments against the Latino community, particularly the undocumented Mexican immigrants, Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump claimed that he won over the Hispanic voters in Nevada.
Trump apparently won over 45 percent of the Latino vote in the Nevada Caucus, while Colombian-American Presidential Candidate Senator Marco Rubio only placed second.
In his victory speech, Trump states that he loves the "poorly educated."
"We won the evangelicals. We won with young. We won with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated!" he said. "We're the smartest people, we're the most loyal people. You know what I really am happy about, because I've been saying it for a long time: 46 percent with the Hispanics, 46 percent, number one with Hispanics. I'm really happy about that."
However, according to experts, Trump shouldn't rest on his laurels for winning the Nevada entrance polls because this doesn't necessarily mean that Latinos are now in favor of him.
Latin politics experts say that there are several factors that could explain Trump's victory in Nevada. Senior Analyst David Damore said that a lot of Nevada Latinos are Democrats and that the entrance poll only has a small count of Latino Republicans, which make it unreliable from the start. Latinos have been moving away from the Republican Party over the years, especially during the time between Sharron Angle and Harry Reid when immigration was a hot topic.
Additionally, the marjority of Latino voters dislike the GOP overall after Trump's statements against Mexicans and immigrants. Trump's words made big-name companies such as ESPN, NBC and Univision cut business ties with him. In a popular speech last year, he called immigrants "rapists" and perpetrators of other heinous crimes.
"When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best. They're not sending you. They're not sending you. They're sending people that have lots of problems, and they're bringing those problems with us," Trump said. "They're bringing drugs. They're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people."
It is not Trump's first time to claim that Latinos "love him and he, them" and that he will break through and get their votes from them.
"I have a great relationship with the Mexican people. I have many people working for me -- look at the job in Washington -- I have many legal immigrants working with me. And many of them come from Mexico," he said last year in an interview ,taking a hit at Hillary Clinton's stance on inclusive immigration. "They love me, I love them. And I'll tell you something, if I get the nomination, I'll win the Latino vote."
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