Trump Chooses the Alt-Right Over the R.N.C.

On August 20th, the Republican National Committee sent out a press release announcing that Donald Trump would be meeting with a recently formed “National Hispanic Advisory Council for Trump.” The Republican Presidential nominee has fared so poorly in the Hispanic community that G.O.P. ads targeting Hispanic voters use the tagline “Sí, yo estoy con Trump” (Yes, I’m with Trump), an apparent nod to the shock of Hispanics revealing their preference for a candidate who has described Mexican immigrants as “rapists”; banned Univision, the largest Spanish-language television network, from covering his events; and claimed that a federal judge of Mexican descent could not fairly preside over a fraud case against him.

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