Clinton team calls bull on Trump’s Latino gambit
While Donald Trump dashes south to meet with Mexico’s unpopular president — a man with even worse favorability numbers than the GOP nominee
.. “The demographic trends make obvious that you can no longer win a presidential election in the new American electorate of 2016 with just white voters. You have to get a significant proportion of nonwhite voters — especially Hispanics
.. Trump’s favorability rating in Mexico, according to a recent poll from the El Financiero paper, is 2 percent.
.. “Perhaps the strategic play is not for more nonwhites,” he said, “but moderate Republicans who have yet to get on the Trump train because they don’t want to support someone perceived as being racist.”