Every time Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump opens his mouth it is usually to say something terrible about someone or to insult entire groups of voters. I think he is beginning to realize that this strategy is not working. This can be seen in the most recent surveys where Hillary Clinton is winning by about […]
Fox News Latino Poll Shows Latinos Highly Favor Clinton
August 12, 2016 By
With less than four months to go before Election Day, Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton holds a commanding 46-point lead over her Republican rival Donald Trump among Hispanic voters, according to an exclusive poll released Thursday by Fox News Latino. The poll found that 66 percent of registered Latinos would head to the ballot box […]
GOP Congressional Incumbents are Calling for Immigration Reform Plans
August 11, 2016 By
Two Illinois Republicans considered among the nation’s most vulnerable congressional incumbents are breaking from their party and its outspoken presidential nominee, Donald Trump, to push laws that would include a path to citizenship for people living in the country illegally. Rep. Bob Dold and Sen. Mark Kirk joined GOP Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart of Florida and […]
Clinton Surrogates are Focusing on the Latino Vote
August 9, 2016 By
Last month, Joaquín Castro went to Center City and down to the Wells Fargo Center in South Philadelphia to choose Hillary Clinton as this year’s Democratic presidential nominee. Before he did so, though, Castro went to the Caplan Center for Performing Arts on South Broad St. where he addressed a group of potential voters who […]
Comentarios from Maria: Is Melania ‘lying and crooked’ over her immigration story?
August 8, 2016 By
Donald Trump has made immigration a cornerstone of his bid for the presidency. His campaign has not been shy about using his wife Melania’s own experience as a “lawful” immigrant to justify why her husband is pushing such a draconian immigration proposal that would deport the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United […]
Clinton’s Nomination Follows Trend of Latin American Women In Power
July 29, 2016 By
By any measure, the nomination of Hillary Clinton as the first female nominee to a major political party in the United States is monumental. This week Clinton has gone farther than any other woman in U.S. history, but globally – and surprisingly more so in the machismo world of Latin America – female political figures […]
Comentarios from Maria: Chaos, Crisis and Cruz: The Trump Convention So Far
July 25, 2016 By
This has been a GOP convention in 4-D: dissonance, discord, divisiveness and dishonesty. From the plagiarism debacle, to the Cruz revolt, to the messages of anger and hate coming from almost every speaker on that stage, the Trump campaign and the Republican Party utterly failed to expand their appeal beyond the nominee’s faithful supporters. Let’s […]
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Backs Clinton
July 21, 2016 By
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce has endorsed Hillary Clinton for president, giving the presumptive Democratic nominee the 38-year-old chamber’s first-ever official backing of a presidential candidate. Javier Palomarez, chamber president and CEO, told NBC News Latino in an exclusive interview that the chamber chose the Democrats’ presumptive nominee Clinton over Donald Trump, who officially became […]
Trump Has A New Latino Outreach Director
July 19, 2016 By
Ileana Garcia has what arguably could be the toughest mission on the Donald Trump campaign – getting Latinos to warm up to him. Garcia, a Cuban-American from South Florida, said she will be the Trump campaign’s liaison with the Republican National Committee regarding Latinos and outreach efforts targeting the community. Garcia grabbed national headlines due […]
Clinton: Latinos “Make Our Nation Stronger”
July 15, 2016 By
Hillary Clinton has a clear message to our community. We need to turn out to vote because this is our election. On Thursday she urged us to send a message to Donald Trump “with one voice that Latinos are a vital part of the American community.” “We are not strangers,” Clinton stated, in her remarks […]
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