The Miami Herald, the influential Florida newspaper that has steadily backed Marco Rubio since 2010, yesterday endorsed his Democratic opponent Patrick Murphy for US Senate. Just six years ago, the Editorial Board wrote that Rubio had the “potential to be the kind of statesman Floridians can be proud to call a native son.”...
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A searing SEIU/iAmerica Action ad promises there will indeed be a wall — of Latino voters. “For more than a year, Latino families have heard Donald Trump promise to build a wall,” SEIU/iAmerica Action says. “Their response: no, #SomosElMuro – we are the wall that will keep you out...
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As Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump meet for the final Presidential debate in Las Vegas tonight, CNN profiles Trump International Hotel employees who will not be voting for their boss. Among them are several Latina guest room attendants who, citing his record of anti-immigrant and anti-Latino rhetoric, will be...
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English (en español al final de la página): NBC: ‘Wall’ of Taco Trucks to Line Up at Trump’s Las Vegas Hotel in Protest By Brian Latimer Univision: Thanks to DACA, Dreamers have higher salaries, more education access By Rachel Glickhouse CBS Miami (Florida): Protesters Gather Outside Trump’s Doral Resort...
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The women’s protest that shut down Trump Tower in Manhattan earlier this month is back and more powerful than ever. Last Friday, some sixty women and their allies shut down Trump Tower following Donald Trump’s own admission to sexually assaulting women. Today, women again gathered, and not just in Manhattan, but also at other...
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Hungry? Needed to register to vote in Nevada? These folks had it covered. On the last day of voter registration in the state yesterday — and a day before the final Presidential debate in Las Vegas — local groups lined up a caravan of 35 taco trucks and dozens of...
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During US Senate debates in Nevada and Florida this week, Republican candidates scrambled to hide their trumped-up records on immigration and support for their party’s nominee for President, Donald Trump. In Nevada, former State Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto went “on the offensive over Republican Heck’s prior support...
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English (en español al final de la página): Politico: Kaine delivers entire speech in Spanish at Miami church By Rebecca Morin Politico: Poll: Clinton leads Trump by 50 points among Latinos By Louis Nelson Associated Press: Confident Clinton expanding her campaign into ‘red’ states By Lisa Lerer and Kathleen...
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An all-star slate of performers urged Latinos nationwide to flex their political muscle during this past weekend’s “RiseUp AS ONE” outdoor concert, “a celebration of immigration, cultural diversity and Latin identity.” An estimated 15,000 people gathered for the border concert in San Diego — which was broadcast live nationally...
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A six-year-old girl was among the recipients of a fundraising letter from former KKK leader and Louisiana Senate candidate David Duke urging voters to back him and Donald Trump, according to the Huffington Post: “’Thank God Trump has emerged and embraced my issues such as stopping immigration, fair trade...
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