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It's a fact that most immigrants tend to vote Democratic
mainly because they are used to being dependent upon government and take it for granted.
A look into the Trump Foundation. Trump hasn't shared his tax returns, but the foundation has to report publicly, allowing some insight into Trump's philanthropy.
Trump hasn't donated to his own charity since 2008.
At times, Trump was just acting as a middleman for other people's money, while taking the credit.
"Trump had earlier gone to a charity in New Jersey — the Charles Evans Foundation, named for a deceased businessman — and asked for a donation. Trump said he was raising money for the Palm Beach Police Foundation.
The Evans Foundation said yes. In 2009 and 2010, it gave a total of $150,000 to the Donald J. Trump Foundation, ...
Then, Trump’s foundation turned around and made donations to the police group in South Florida. In those years, the Trump Foundation’s gifts totaled $150,000.
Trump had effectively turned the Evans Foundation’s gifts into his own gifts, without adding any money of his own."
Trump seems pretty emphatic about the large numbers in his statement. It does seem that any attempt at outreach the RP has made over recent years has fallen flat. It's almost as if they can't dispel their inherent beliefs about how recent immigrants think, instead relying on stereotypes that many would find offensive and repellent.
What do you think they are?For myself, I have to say that I consider that line of analysis to badly miss the critical facts of the matter.
The Party has traditionally given up the Black vote for lost...and for good reason, with that constituency almost completely in the Democrat Party pocket.
And there generally has not been much action in the direction of Hispanics, except for a few Republicans (like George W. Bush) acting basically on their own. In other words, it's not that the Republican outreach, as you put it, has fallen flat; it's that it hasn't had much air in it to begin with.
Trump is really "boldly going where no Republican has gone before," and there is some indication that it's paying dividends.
Hmm. That isn't what you seemed to say...and it's too soon to declare the attempt to be a failure.That was rather my point - recognizing the changing demographics led to an attempt at a strategy, but this floundered quickly.
There can't possibly be an addressing of it that can keep up with the administration's recruitment of millions of low skilled immigrants. In time, there could be such, but by then the opportunity will not exist.Still, the demographics are changing. You'd think there would be a lot more emphasis on addressing this, unless there was some fundamental problem involved with it.
And I don't know who told you that it is a strategy. As the slogan or theme or appeal that it is, it might be good, partially because of its directness and reasonableness.Well, I'm not sure "what have you got to lose" qualifies as a strategy
Hmm. That isn't what you seemed to say...and it's too soon to declare the attempt to be a failure.
There can't possibly be an addressing of it that can keep up with the administration's recruitment of millions of low skilled immigrants. In time, there could be such, but by then the opportunity will not exist.
And I don't know who told you that it is. As the slogan or campaign theme or appeal that it is, it might be good, partially because of its directness and reasonableness.
What I'd say is that there has been talk going on for some time now that the party needs to do something, but regardless of what anyone thinks of Trump generally, what he's done in the past month or so on this particular front is much more meaningful than the formalized gestures that were the Party's stock in trade previously--giving a speech to the NAACP, saying something nice about MLKing etc.The push has been ongoing for a while now from certain quarters (that some would describe as GOPe etc), but I've yet to see it get to the point where it becomes an actual part of the Presidential strategy - it seems to founder way before that in a froth of visceral realpolitik.
We'll see. I think that the math is undeniable and will take effect almost immediately.Still, you may still have time to make it work. Not, apparently according to Trump, Bachmann et al, but I think there is a bit longer left yet.
Did either of us make mention of "government positions?"Sorry, you've lost me there - what are the government positions being offered to all these low skilled immigrants?
What I'd say is that there has been talk going on for some time now that the party needs to do something, but regardless of what anyone thinks of Trump generally, what he's done in the past month or so on this particular front is much more meaningful than the formalized gestures that were the Party's stock in trade previously--giving a speech to the NAACP, saying something nice about MLKing etc.
We'll see. I think that the math is undeniable and will take effect almost immediately.
Did either of us make mention of "government positions?"
The Party has traditionally given up the Black vote for lost...and for good reason, with that constituency almost completely in the Democrat Party pocket.
And there generally has not been much action in the direction of Hispanics, except for a few Republicans (like George W. Bush) acting basically on their own. In other words, it's not that the Republican outreach, as you put it, has fallen flat; it's that it hasn't had much air in it to begin with.
Trump is really "boldly going where no Republican has gone before," and there is some indication that it's paying dividends.
maybe, just maybe they are democratic because they see ads from reoublicans calling them leeches and scum, and encounter supporters with similar views, all while working harder than most Americans for less pay....Ahem. As I said, that's all an expression of your own feelings.
The article that you linked us to and which, presumably, was going verify your statement....didn't.
Anyway, I think there was one Latino supporter who withdrew from the Trump campaign, and Trump has increased his appeals to minorities lately, if anything. It's a fact that most immigrants tend to vote Democratic, mainly because they are used to being dependent upon government and take it for granted. But the assumption that legal residents of the USA who have immigrated are automatically in favor of open borders is a mistaken notion.
Trump is really "boldly going where no Republican has gone before," and there is some indication that it's paying dividends.
Donald Trump’s campaign chair in a prominent Ohio county has claimed there was “no racism” during the 1960s and said black people who have not succeeded over the past half-century only have themselves to blame.
And remember, boys and girls, Trump will succeed even when he doesn't know something by surrounding himself with experts like this.
Trump probably agrees, since the 1960s (or the 1860s) can't have been as bad as today.
Trump: "our African-American communities are absolutely in the worst shape they've ever been in before. Ever, ever ever."
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