Speaker Ryan – when you said “more and more”, did you actually mean Trumpocalypse and Trumpocalypse?
Just last week, in an interview with Milwaukee’s TMJ 4, Charles Benson asked Speaker Paul Ryan, “Do you think the party is doing enough to reach out to voter blocks that are growing – the Hispanic, Latino vote and making a pitch to them to bring them into the party?
Paul Ryan replied, “No, I don’t. I don’t think our party is doing enough to reach out to different voting blocks and we have to do more and more.”
And then there’s this:
Poll: Trump’s negatives among Hispanics rise; worst in GOP field
Washington Post
By Dan Balz and Scott Clement
2/25/16
Donald Trump has used the issue of immigration to help make himself the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination, but his harsh rhetoric also has earned him the highest negative ratings among Hispanic voters of any major GOP hopeful, according to a Washington Post-Univision News poll.
Among Democrats, front-runner Hillary Clinton holds a lead over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) of roughly 2 to 1 among Hispanics heading toward the Super Tuesday round of primaries and caucuses.
Clinton lost the Hispanic vote in last Saturday’s Nevada caucuses by eight points, according to network entrance polling. The Post-Univision survey was conducted Feb. 11-18, before those caucuses took place. The poll was a joint effort of the independent firm Bendixen and Amandi International and the Tarrance Group, a Republican firm.
Hispanics clearly prefer the Democratic Party to the Republican Party overall and on a host of important issues, though the poll suggests most are not passionate about Democratic leadership or Obama’s presidency.
Strongly negative views of Trump have intensified over the past seven months, as the New York billionaire has repeatedly pressed his call to build a wall along the length of the U.S.-Mexico border and seek to deport undocumented immigrants currently residing in the country.
Today, 8 in 10 Hispanic voters have an unfavorable view of Trump. That includes more than 7 in 10 who have a “very unfavorable” impression of him, which is more than double the percentage of any other major candidate.
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