During his remarks at the annual La Raza conference in Kansas City, Missouri, Sanders called out Trump by name. “The problem is that it’s so hard to tell him apart from the other candidates they have in their field”. Until she spoke to a Latino audience Monday. “Two days ago, Mr. Trump attracted a crowd of over 4,000 people to listen to his hate speech rant against New American Immigrants”.
He can’t win a general election with those views, but if polls are anything to go by, it’s entirely possible to do quite well in a party’s primary, which says something about how far our country has to come when it comes to racial tolerance, let alone equality or harmony.
Sanders’ presidential campaign-more than Hillary Clinton’s, and infinitely more than Donald Trump’s-is based on an accurate reading of the problems facing our country and a genuine presentation of policy solutions.
The former governor also spoke out early in opposition to the way the Obama administration was handling last summer’s crisis at the border, in which the number of unaccompanied children entering the US from Central America spiked. He and his son, Donald Trump, Jr., also donated to Clinton’s Senate and presidential campaigns during the 2000s.
Janet Murguía, the president and CEO of La Raza, said on msnbc this morning that Trump is “very divisive, inflammatory, and in many instances using false information to talk about what’s true - that is a broken immigration system”. Instead, they played to their strengths.
“It’s shameful, and no one should stand for it”, said Clinton. “As president I will fight every day for comprehensive immigration reform, with a real path for citizenship”. “Or to the dish washers working their hands raw in the kitchens in Las Vegas”, she said.
“I know that all of us here today share my disgust with the comments Donald Trump recently made”, O’Malley said to sustained applause from 1,500 people at the NCLR luncheon.
Lisa Lopez, of Kansas City, said she was quite taken with O’Malley, but had never heard of him before, and feels Clinton better understands her experience as a single mother.
The Republican National Committee’s Director for Hispanic Media, Ruth Guerra, responded to Clinton’s speech, saying she, “is ignoring the fact that a Democrat has occupied the White House for the past six and a half years - a period that has seen the weakest economic recovery in modern history, particularly for millions of Hispanics across the country”.
