So why is President Trump wrong in telling countries to take their citizens who joined ISIS and have been captured?

Another example of countries expecting the US to deal with their problems.

Perhaps we could lease them cells at Gitmo?

 

GITMO?....The fuck you say!!!, did not Obama keep his campaign promise and close that horrible detention center that houses some of the worst of the worse terrorists?

 

Well ...... no, as it turns out, he didn't.

Lucky for us.

 

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/el...stry-at-georgia-campaign-stop-why-did-you-lie

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., was once again reminded that she exaggerated her Native American ancestry and was heckled during a campaign stop in Georgia.

While introducing herself to a crowd of about 1,000 supporters in a Lawrenceville high school, a man shouted “Why did you lie?" Warren replied back “Be easy, be easy,” while the crowd chanted her name and clapped.

The man was holding up a campaign sign that read “1/2020” as he was quickly escorted out of the building. Warren released DNA results examining her possible Native American ancestry last year in response to criticism from Republicans and President Donald Trump.

 

And Shooter sees where Bernie has decided to give it another shot.

Deja Vu. 2020 elections will be full of irony, surprises, and funny shit.

Shooter for one can hardly wait.

 

What the heck.
The line up for President so far.

Cory Booker
New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker announced his long-anticipated decision the same way many Americans have come to know him, on Twitter, presenting himself as a healer of the country’s deep divisions and stressing the importance of "collective action."

"I believe that we can build a country where no one is forgotten, no one is left behind," Booker, 49, told his supporters in a rousing, 2-minute-and-25-second video.

Booker came to prominence as the mayor of Newark and then as New Jersey’s first African-American senator after winning a special election in 2013. Booker can point to a record of backing liberal policies.

Pete Buttigieg
Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, launched his campaign for president with a video message promising to bring a "fresh start" to the White House.

The 37-year-old Democrat would be the first openly gay presidential nominee from a major political party if he manages to emerge victorious in the primary.

Buttigieg was elected South Bend's mayor in 2012. In his campaign video, he points to national headlines that once called it a dying city. He led South Bend's 100,000 residents to a comeback, he said, "by taking our eyes off the rear-view mirror."

Julian Castro
The former San Antonio mayor, who also served as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Obama administration, threw his hat into the ring early, announcing the formation of an exploratory committee in mid-December and formally declaring his candidacy on Jan. 12.

Castro, 44, made a splash six years ago as the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention in 2012. The grandson of a Mexican immigrant and son of a Latina activist, he would be among the youngest candidates in the field and the most prominent Latino. His twin brother, Joaquin Castro, is a Democratic congressman from Texas.

John Delaney
candidate since July[/a] 2017.

Delaney, who founded two publicly traded companies, joined the House in 2013. He said his campaign will be focused on building up infrastructure to keep the U.S. globally competitive, along with international tax reform and a greater embrace of immigration.

Tulsi Gabbard
Rep. Gabbard first announced on CNN in January that she had decided to run for president before officially launching her campaign with a speech in Oahu, Hawaii, on Feb. 2.

"When we raise our right hand and volunteer to serve, we set aside our own interests to serve our country, to fight for all Americans. We serve as one, indivisible, united, unbreakable – united by this bond of love for each other and love for our country," she said in her Oahu speech. "It is in this spirit that today I announce my candidacy for president of the United States of America."

The Hawaii congresswoman was elected in 2012. An Iraq veteran, Gabbard, 37, serves on the House Armed Services Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee.

Kirsten Gillibrand
launched her campaign[/a] for the nation's highest office on Jan. 15, on CBS' Late Show with Stephen Colbert, telling the late-night comedian she would file to create an exploratory 2020 committee.


In a clip released by CBS, Gillibrand said she would run a campaign that emphasizes health care as a human right, improving public schools and improving job-training programs.

“I’m going to run for president of the United States because as a young mom, I’m going to fight for other people’s kids as hard as I fight for my own," she told Colbert.

Kamala Harris
made her announcement [/a]on Jan. 21 during an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America" and, six days later, formally opened her campaign with a rally in her hometown of Oakland, California.

"I feel a sense of responsibility to stand up for who we are," she said.

Harris, 54, was born and raised in Oakland. In 2017, Harris, whose mother emigrated to the USA from India, became the first South Asian-American, and the second African-American female, senator in U.S. history, according to her biography on her Senate page.

Amy Klobuchar
Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar threw her hat in the ring at an outdoor event on a freezing afternoon in Minneapolis on Feb. 10.

Klobuchar, 58, hopes her working-class, Midwestern background will help her seize the middle ground in a Democratic primary where many of the candidates who have announced so far have generally appealed to the party's progressive wing.

"I don't come from money. But what I do have is this: I have grit. I have family. I have friends. I have neighbors. I have all of you who are willing to come out in the middle of the winter, all of you who took the time to watch us today from home, all of you who are willing to stand up and say people matter," she said as she announced her candidacy with temperatures hovering in the high teens.

Bernie Sanders
Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-Vt., is running for president again after finishing the 2016 Democratic primary as the runner-up behind former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

The self-described democratic socialist made the announcement that he is joining the crowded field in an interview with a Vermont public radio station and in a campaign email.

"I’m running for president because, now more than ever, we need leadership that brings us together – not divides us up," Sanders said in the email. "Women and men, black, white, Latino, Native American, Asian American, gay and straight, young and old, native born and immigrant. Now is the time for us to stand together."

Elizabeth Warren
The two-term Massachusetts senator formally launched her 2020 campaign at a Feb. 9 rally in her home state after becoming one of the first candidates to form an exploratory committee in December.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, 69, came into the national spotlight for her passionate criticism of Wall Street, the banking industry and large corporations after the 2008 financial crisis hit. Then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid appointed her the chair on a panel to oversee the federal bailout in response to the crisis.

Warren won her Senate seat in 2012, defeating incumbent Republican Scott Brown and handily won re-election in 2018. A leader of her party's liberal wing, she has advocated for progressive policies such as "Medicare for all."

Andrew Yang
Entrepreneur Andrew Yang, 44, is making a longshot bid for the White House on a platform focused on addressing the threat posed to American jobs by new technology.

"It became clear to me that job creation will not outpace the massive impending job loss due to automation. Those days are simply over," he says in his biography on his campaign website. "Once I understood the magnitude of this problem, and that even our most forward-thinking politicians were not going to take the steps necessary to stem the tide, I had no choice but to act."

Yang's platform also includes providing every American 18 and older with a basic universal income of $1,000 a month.

President Donald Trump
Trump filed for re-election the day he was inaugurated, and his campaign already has raised $100 million and begun airing TV and digital ads. He has said he intends to keep Vice President Mike Pence on the ticket.

William Weld
William Weld, a former Massachusetts governor who ran for vice president on the Libertarian Party ticket in 2016, became the first Republican to take a serious step toward challenging Trump in 2020.

Speaking Feb. 15 at a breakfast in New Hampshire, Weld said he has created a presidential exploratory committee. He blasted Trump for leaving the nation in "grave peril."

"We have a president whose priorities are skewed towards promotion of himself rather than for the good of the country," Weld said. "He may have great energy and considerable raw talent but he does not use that in ways that promote democracy, truth, justice and equal opportunity for all. To compound matters, our president is simply too unstable to carry out the duties of the highest executive office in the land."

Who's out?

• Former West Virginia state Sen. Richard Ojeda dropped out of the race on Jan. 25, 2019, telling supporters he didn't want them donating money to a campaign with little chance of success.

 

I thought Liz Warren would be out first, but I think Kobluchar will be next. They say she's a bitch to work for, but she then makes it tough for them to leave.


When Staff Sought Better Jobs, Amy Klobuchar Tried To Undermine Them


The 2020 hopeful has called prospective employers in order to shut down outside job opportunities for her staff.

2/22/19


In the face of mounting reports that Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) chronically mistreats her staff, the presidential hopeful has defended her office as a “tough” workplace that molds her employees for even greater challenges.

“Many of them have gone on to do incredible things,” she said in a recent interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. “I was teasing President Obama the other day: the White House hired over 20 of my staff members.”

But on a number of occasions, when her staffers have sought to land bigger and better jobs, Klobuchar has acted as their biggest obstacle. The senator is well known on Capitol Hill for calling prospective employers in an attempt to shut new job opportunities down — including at least one opportunity with the Obama administration.

Accounts of Klobuchar trying to thwart job-seekers come from half a dozen Capitol Hill staffers and former Klobuchar employees, all of whom requested anonymity.

In one instance, Klobuchar went so far as to confront a fellow Democrat in Congress who had offered a job to one of Klobuchar’s staffers, making it clear she wanted the offer rescinded, said a source with knowledge of their conversation. The member held their ground and the staffer ultimately made the jump.

On another occasion, Klobuchar blocked Obama’s Treasury Department from hiring one of her longtime aides. It’s common courtesy in Washington for the White House to ask senators of the same political party for their blessing before hiring their legislative staff. But instances of senators refusing are not common. The staffer in question was a finalist for a coveted job and “pissed” when Klobuchar refused to sign off, a source said.

Stories of Klobuchar mistreating her staff are challenging to the image she hopes will vault her into the White House: that of a personable, pragmatic Midwesterner who eschews drama and pettiness in favor of getting results.

But in Washington, Klobuchar has a well-established reputation for abusing her staff — and for undercutting their attempts to leave.

In an earlier report by Yahoo News, three former Klobuchar staffers and a Capitol Hill veteran described Klobuchar calling new employers to attempt to have them rescind job offers to her staff.

Fear of Klobuchar’s interference is so prevalent that it has become the culture in her office to treat outside job offers like a state secret, former staffers told HuffPost. One former employee said that when she was looking for a new job, she warned potential employers that the senator might seek a way to sabotage her prospects.


Employers, of course, run reference checks on their prospective hires all the time. The phone calls and confrontations Klobuchar initiates are of a completely different nature, sources said. Her aim wasn’t to offer a candid evaluation of her staffers, negative or otherwise, they said, but to prevent highly desirable ones from taking their talents elsewhere.

As for her motivations, several former staffers noted Klobuchar’s conduct as a boss makes it difficult for her to replace outgoing staff. Her Senate office once suffered a long spell without an official chief of staff, HuffPost previously reported, and three different people turned down the offer to manage her nascent presidential campaign.

Former employees also told Yahoo News (a Verizon Media brand like HuffPost) that Klobuchar sometimes views it as a betrayal when her staffers quit.

After publication, Klobuchar’s presidential campaign provided the following statement: “This is completely false. The senator has never criticized her staff to prospective employers.”

On Friday, the New York Times reported that there were special constraints on employees who left after taking parental leave, at least on paper. Her office’s written policy effectively required those who took leave to remain in the office three times as many weeks as they had been gone, the Times said, or pay back the money they earned during their time off.

A Klobuchar spokeswoman told the Times that her office had never required anyone to repay their earnings and would change the language in its employee handbook.

As with an earlier report from Buzzfeed, the Times said Klobuchar has thrown objects such as binders and telephones at staffers. HuffPost and numerous outlets have reported that Klobuchar frequently berates staff and requires them to do chores in her house, such as laundry and dishes, and has generally created an anxiety-ridden workplace.

Klobuchar’s office consistently has one of the highest rates of staff turnover in the Senate.

 

Kirsten Gillibrand - Hippocrite!


Gillibrand behavior reveals sexual harassment hypocrisy


3/14/19

In April 2018, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand urged Senate leaders to pass her bipartisan Congressional Harassment Reform Act.

“Congress has a sexual harassment problem — and isn’t taking it seriously,” Gillibrand wrote in Fortune magazine. “If we can’t clean up our own act, how can anyone expect Congress to do the right thing for victims and survivors in the rest of the country? Congress has to do better. I believe that elected officials should be held to the highest ethical standard — not the lowest.”

Just a few months later, when a woman in her own office reported that a married male staffer was making repeated, unwanted and increasingly aggressive sexual advances toward her, Gillibrand did not do the right thing and fire him. Politico reported that “less than three weeks after reporting the alleged harassment and subsequently claiming that the man retaliated against her for doing so, the woman told chief of staff Jess Fassler that she was resigning because of the office’s handling of the matter.”

Gillibrand’s office defended her inaction, saying in a statement that the senator’s office had conducted a “full and thorough investigation” that included “multiple interviews with relevant current employees who could potentially corroborate the claims” but did not find cause to fire the male staffer.

They could not “corroborate” her claims? Gillibrand was willing to destroy Brett Kavanaugh’s career, and derail his Supreme Court nomination, over uncorroborated allegations, but when a female employee alleged that she was sexually harassed by one of Gillibrand’s closest aides, the senator hid behind a supposed lack of corroboration. Why was her office unable to corroborate the allegations? Maybe it’s because they never contacted two former employees the woman said could corroborate her story?

Politico had no problem doing that. The news organization interviewed more than 20 former Gillibrand staffers who alleged a pattern of harassment by aide Abbas Malik. One former staffer said that “Malik often called her fat and unattractive to her face and made light of sexual abuse.” Others said Malik “regularly made misogynistic jokes, frequently appraised what they wore, disparaged the looks of other female staffers and rated the attractiveness of women who came in for interviews.” If a reporter could dig this information up, then her office could have done so, too. Only after Politico contacted Gillibrand’s office about the additional allegations against Malik did the senator finally fire him.

The fact is, while publicly positioning herself as a champion of harassment victims, Gillibrand apparently allowed a serial harasser to torment her female staff. And when a woman on her staff risked her own career to report the abusive conduct, “I was belittled by her office and treated like an inconvenience,” the woman told Politico. “She kept a harasser on her staff until it proved politically untenable for her to do so.”

Why did Gillibrand fail to act? Politico reported that “Malik had spent years by Gillibrand’s side as her driver — the senator officiated at his wedding — while the woman was a more recent hire and had significantly less stature in the office.” She apparently did not take action because she liked him personally. The hypocrisy is rank.

Gillibrand is pushing legislation, the Military Justice Improvement Act, that would make independent prosecutors, rather than military commanders, responsible for handling allegations of sexual misconduct in the military, because of “the bias and inherent conflicts of interest posed by the military chain of command’s sole decision-making power.” Yet when faced with such allegations in her own office, she had no concern about bias and inherent conflicts of interest.

Gillibrand is a political opportunist who has seized on the #MeToo movement to advance her political career. In 2017, she shocked many Democrats by declaring that President Bill Clinton should have resigned during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. But she said nothing about Clinton’s misconduct when he campaigned for her in 2006 or when he headlined a fundraiser for her in 2009, and she was happy to accept the help of the Clinton political machine to raise an estimated $70 million for her. It was only after Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 presidential election, and the Clinton political machine was finally defunct, that Gillibrand finally stepped forward to condemn him. What a profile in courage.

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Democrats have to look elsewhere for new indictments


3/24/19


The Mueller report may not have indicted any Americans over the actual 2016 presidential campaign, but the indictments of the 2020 field have already begun.

Hours after news hit that there are no indictments related to Russian collusion, Beto O’Rourke said, “You have a president, who in my opinion beyond a shadow of a doubt, sought to, however ham-handedly, collude with the Russian government.”

Then El Paso’s favorite fourth-generation Irishman declared that releasing the entire report is a life-or-death decision for our republic: “We are owed the facts, and if we do not receive them, 243 years in, there’s nothing that guarantees [America] a 244th.”

Anyone dumb enough to say that has indicted himself — as unfit to be President of the United States.

O’Rourke — who still says he wants Trump impeached, by the way, is hardly alone. MSNBC’s Chris Matthews spoke for the entire media establishment when he cried “How can Mueller let him off the hook!”

OK, Matthews didn’t actually shed tears. (That was his colleague Rachel Maddow.) But he expressed the widespread media anguish that so many of us who’ve mocked their Russian obsession found so delicious.

Only Trump’s most hardcore fans believe he is a man above reproach. Of course he paid off his porn star hookups. Just as Bill Clinton lied to a federal judge and grand jury when he was trying to stop a legit sexual harassment lawsuit back in the day.

Clinton was guilty — and he won. Trump is, well, less-than-not-guilty, and the Democrat-Media Axis are handing him a victory.

This is Trump’s superpower: His enemies react to him by revealing the very worst about themselves. Democrats could have spent the past two years defending the rule of law and the institutions that defend our democracy. Instead they cried “treason” and “impeachment” and “Hitler” for full partisan effect.

The media could have limited their coverage to the facts — or lack thereof — in the Mueller case. Instead they spent 22 months in nonstop propaganda mode, spinning hours of speculation about Trump’s imminent impeachment night after night.

Even now, the 2020 candidates could admit the obvious: That Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election because she’s a lousy candidate who let it slip just how much she deplores millions of American voters. And then, having admitted the problem, a smart Democrat could pledge to be different, to listen to MAGA America and its concerns rather than mock them.

Even before the first facts are released, however, we’ve already learned this one, true thing: There are no smart Democrats.

 

Democratic losers out to take all in 2020


3/24/19

Look at the losers running, or considering a run, for the Democratic presidential nomination.

I don’t mean that pejoratively. I mean it literally.

Beto O’Rourke’s presidential candidacy is the ultimate expression of the participation trophy culture on the left. It used to be you had to win on the state level before taking the national stage. Barack Obama won a Senate seat from Illinois before immediately declaring his intention to run for president. At the time, that was considered pretty audacious. He hadn’t accomplished anything in the Senate before he decided on a presidential run. But at least he won. O’Rourke lost his race to unseat Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last year. He got a participation trophy. Apparently, he thinks that qualifies him to be the leader of the free world.

Well, he must have some accomplishments other than almost winning a Senate seat, right? Not really. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was flummoxed when asked what O’Rourke had accomplished in Congress, saying he “brought a great deal of vitality” to his work “preserving our planet and protecting our people.” (In fact, O’Rourke passed a single bill, H.R. 5873, which renamed a courthouse in his hometown of El Paso.) Texas Democratic Party Chairman Gilberto Hinojosa was questioned by Ed Henry on Fox News, “What would you say is Beto O’Rourke’s top accomplishment that he brings to the table?” Hinojosa could not name a single one. “I’m not even talking about Congress,” Henry said. “What has he done in his life?” “Your question is meaningless,” Hinojosa replied.


(How many fucking times did Ed Henry say "Forget Congress."? And how many times did this idiot say "But Republican-controlled Congress."?)


So, if O’Rourke hasn’t accomplished anything, he must at least have some clear ideas of what he wants to accomplish in the Oval Office, right? Nope. The Washington Post reports that “unlike candidates such as Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, who launched their campaigns with clearly articulated policy platforms, O’Rourke focuses more on sweeping calls for unity and pitching himself as the best antidote to the country’s toxic politics.” The motivation for his run, apparently, is him. As Vanity Fair’s Joe Hagan explains in a recent profile, O’Rourke “can’t deny the pull of his own gifts.” He tells a reporter, “Man, I’m just born to be in it.”

He’s not the only statewide loser taking the national stage. Stacey Abrams lost the governor’s race in Georgia in 2018, yet national Democrats tapped her to deliver the official rebuttal to the State of the Union — a task normally given to those who actually won their races. And now, The Washington Post reports, she is considering a race for president as well. “I think that I am a skilled communicator,” she said. “I think I’m a very good thinker. No, I know I’m a good thinker. I know I have policy chops. I have foreign policy experience.”

Foreign policy experience? She served as minority leader of the state House of Representatives. Her official bio lists her as “former term member of the Council on Foreign Relations” (a temporary membership for young people) as well as “a Council on Italy Fellow, a British-American Project Fellow, a Salzburg Seminar-Freeman Fellow on U.S.-East Asian Relations, a Salzburg Seminar Fellow on youth and civic engagement and a Yukos Fellow for U.S.-Russian Relations.” That might qualify her for an entry-level job at a left-wing think tank, but it hardly qualifies her to be commander in chief. Even O’Rourke can claim experience on the House Armed Services Committee.

Democrats point out that President Trump had never won statewide office before running for president. That’s true. But he also had not run for state office and lost. He ran as a successful outsider, not as a failed insider. And unlike O’Rourke, he had actual accomplishments — including a multibillion-dollar real estate empire.

This is not to dismiss O’Rourke’s chances. He raised a whopping $6.1 million in his first 24 hours as a candidate, just edging out Sanders’s first day haul of almost $6 million. That is the best of any Democrat running for president so far. As the New York Times noted, “In a single day online, he raised nearly a quarter of what Barack Obama, then a senator, did in the entire first quarter of 2007.”

Apparently, Democrats like losers. We’ll soon see if one can win the presidency.

 

Poor, dipstick. She knows he doesn't put his name on every building. She's just too jealous (and too dishonest) to admit that people pay Trump for the privilege of putting his name on their buildings. Something I'm sure she'd do if anyone was interested in putting her name on something other than a tabloid newspaper...or an outhouse.

 

And you've got "Mad hands" Beto.



Not to be confused with "Handy hands Joe."

 

Hispanics Rally to Trump, Boosting His 2020 Chances


4/2/19

Get ready for the anti-Trump “resistance” to go truly loco, because new polling data indicates Hispanic support for the president is swelling, a trend that could seal his 2020 re-election victory.

When I helped lead the Trump Hispanic Advisory Council in 2016, our effort was widely derided by skeptics certain that the narrative of Trump as anti-Latino would doom his candidacy, particularly in heavily Hispanic states like Florida. But that November, Hispanics saw through the media smears and Trump massively outperformed dour expectations, actually surpassing Mitt Romney’s 2012 percentage among Latino voters.

Since then, prospects have only improved – most importantly for the overall well-being of America’s Hispanic citizens, but also for the political prognosis of President Trump. So much good news erupted last week for the president with the conclusion of the Mueller inquiry that stunning new polling data was largely glossed over. McLaughlin & Associates revealed that Hispanic approval for Trump in March jumped to 50%. This number matched the January Marist/NPR/PBS survey that shocked cynics with its own 50% approval finding. Even if those polls are too aggressive, February’s Morning Consult/Politico poll showed Trump’s Hispanic approval vaulting to a still-impressive 45%.

What explains this stunning trend? I see three key factors:

The Economy – Hispanics neither desire nor expect a laundry list of deliverables from government, but rather seek the conditions to advance and prosper independently. As the most statistically entrepreneurial demographic in America, Hispanics have thrived amid the Trump boom as regulatory and tax relief unleashes a small business surge. Every American benefits from this new dynamism, but Hispanics most of all. For example, the Hispanic jobless rate has now been below 5% for the last 11 months; prior to the Trump presidency, it had only been below 5% for one month ever (in 2006). In addition, jobs are paying more. Wage growth has finally ramped higher for all Americans, but especially for Hispanics, who now welcome wage growth far above workers on the whole. The American manufacturing renaissance drives much of this resurgence, as on-shoring, better trade deals, and rising optimism made 2018 the best year for factory jobs since the 1990s.


Immigration – Leftist politicians and their media allies wrongly assume that Hispanics espouse softness on immigration illegality. In reality, a 2018 YouGov/Economist poll detailed that only 20% of Hispanics support the practice of “catch and release” of families crossing our border illegally. Indeed, Hispanic Americans often suffer the worst, most immediate consequences of porous borders. Too often, Hispanic workers must compete against unfair, illegal labor. In addition, dangerous illegal aliens largely terrorize Hispanic citizens. The tragic tales of MS-13 savagery, for example, normally involve Hispanic victims like Carlos Rivas-Majano, one of 27 people killed by the gang on Long Island, N.Y., in just the past three years. While elites like wannabe-Hispanic Robert Francis O’Rourke pontificate about open borders and tearing down existing border walls, the actual on-the-ground consequences flow to people with names like Hernandez, Cabrera, and Cortes. Hispanic Americans have suffered too many totally preventable losses, such as slain Arizona police Sgt. Brandon Mendoza and young Los Angeles mother Sandra Duran, both murdered by illegal aliens living in America despite multiple prior arrests in the United States.

Social Issues – As the Democratic Party lurches left on social issues, the largely Catholic and Evangelical Hispanic community of America finds itself orphaned by the Democratic Party. Increasingly, Democrat lawmakers and leaders support abortion up until the very day of birth (and even beyond), so Hispanics naturally gravitate to pro-life Trump. A 2018 Pew poll, for instance, found that 61% of whites believe abortion should be legal in most/all circumstances, but only 44% of Hispanics concur. In a separate survey, Pew also discovered that among Democrats, Hispanics are almost twice as likely to identify as “conservative” as non-Hispanics. Given these realities, the increasingly extremist Democratic Party practically invites electoral doom in 2020.

Looking state-by-state at the 2020 presidential race, the groundswell of Trump’s Hispanic popularity solidifies the president’s re-election prospects. A Trump gain to 40% of the Hispanic vote -- a very realistic goal at this point – could effectively seal repeat wins in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Arizona. Winning those states means the Democratic nominee must clean-sweep the 2016 Trump states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin. Moreover, even that upper Midwest sweep would not be enough if Trump’s ascent with Hispanics puts in play Nevada and Colorado, states with large Latino populations that Clinton won by low single digits last election.

For decades, Republicans have chased the “holy grail” of votes from Hispanics, a group that naturally should align with the conservative principles of entrepreneurial capitalism, strong borders, and a culture of life. Paradoxically, the man whom the mainstream media most attempted to vilify as anti-Latino will, at last, truly welcome Hispanics to their rightful political home.