Post by Logan on Jun 13, 2016 13:17:10 GMT -6
This Election Cycle, Will Republican Latinos Decide to Vote Democratic?
Within the past 24 hours, there’s been an event which the McAllen Monitor is framing as an Edward R. Murrow moment – akin to when the CBS anchorman called out Joseph McCarthy as a bully and a demagogue.
This time, in the opinion of many, the poison spear has been thrown by a Texas congressman of Mexican descent, Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Brownsville). In an open letter that has since gone viral, Vela defends others of Mexican American heritage, while calling Trump a racist and suggesting that the presumptive Republican nominee take his border wall and, in so many words, tells him where to shove it.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Vela said that Trump’s rhetoric may cause Latino voters who have previously voted Republican to jump ship and cast their ballot for Clinton.
“I think that with this kind of racist rhetoric that we’re hearing from Donald Trump, that many of those latino voters – who may have previously voted Republican – are going to vote for the Democratic candidate,” Vela said.
Read more: www.texasstandard.org/stories/this-election-cycle-will-republican-latinos-decide-to-vote-democrat/#
Within the past 24 hours, there’s been an event which the McAllen Monitor is framing as an Edward R. Murrow moment – akin to when the CBS anchorman called out Joseph McCarthy as a bully and a demagogue.
This time, in the opinion of many, the poison spear has been thrown by a Texas congressman of Mexican descent, Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Brownsville). In an open letter that has since gone viral, Vela defends others of Mexican American heritage, while calling Trump a racist and suggesting that the presumptive Republican nominee take his border wall and, in so many words, tells him where to shove it.
In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, Vela said that Trump’s rhetoric may cause Latino voters who have previously voted Republican to jump ship and cast their ballot for Clinton.
“I think that with this kind of racist rhetoric that we’re hearing from Donald Trump, that many of those latino voters – who may have previously voted Republican – are going to vote for the Democratic candidate,” Vela said.
Read more: www.texasstandard.org/stories/this-election-cycle-will-republican-latinos-decide-to-vote-democrat/#