http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/donald-trump-latino-pivot
Donald Trump launched his presidential bid with a race-baiting, xenophobic bang, suggesting Mexicans are a bunch of women-raping, drug-carrying criminals. But now that the Summer of Trump is turning into fall, it looks like Trump is trying to turn over a new leaf, promising a “a big fat beautiful open door” in his 1,954-mile-long southwestern border wall, agreeing to eat Mexican food with Geraldo Rivera, and winning the praises of the CEO of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
The softening is nuanced and doesn't suggest an earnest effort to make-nice with the still-furious Latino community. Rather it portends a long-term campaign strategy in which Trump tries to have it both ways: blow the dog whistle to rile the nativist extremes of the GOP base but temper his rhetoric to reassure more moderate conservatives who don't see themselves -- or want to be seen -- as racist.
“It’s clear he’s trying to assuage the mood,” said Felix Sanchez, chairman and co-founder of the National Hispanic Foundation of the Arts, whose group turned down an invitation to meet with Trump in Manhattan at Trump Tower. “In a way, it’s really whitewashing what he’s done,” Sanchez told TPM last week.
According to political experts, it can also be seen as a signal to Republican voters nervous that their candidate is winning the support of white supremacists that he should be taken more seriously: that he’s not so xenophobic after all, that he’s electable in the general, that he’s thinking about Latino-heavy states later in the electoral calendar.
“Republican voters have been very good at sussing out the electability question of these candidate,” said Princeton University political scientist Ali Valenzuela, pointing to the eventual GOP nominations of Mitt Romney and John McCain over more conservative candidates.
“Republican voters are smart and they don’t want to nominate someone who has no chance of winning the big prize, the general. They know as well as me or you, that this kind of rhetoric, this kind of attack -- even if they agree with it -- it’s not going to win the moderate vote.”
this is a combination of BS and ED mixed together and just as odious. any sudden change in something so vigorously pursued is desperation and convenience, yeah his polls show double digit leads but these are republican primary polls some show him leading both Hilary and Bernie but when Nov. 8th becomes tomorrow will he have successfully taken back the racist bigoted rants and ridiculous claims of what he'll do if elected,
i think not he his shifting gears because 2016 is just round the bend and he has to walk back what got him the double digits with his base changing horses only makes you appear flipping and flopping especially when the base keep returning to the trough and there is no red meat.
playing to the oxymoron republican voters are smart if so why the 4 year return to the circular firing squad mentality and voting against their interest and looking forward to the missing toes on the same foot they keep shooting themselves in.
