Trump Wins Along Heavily Latino Texas Border Counties

[polychronopolous]

Donald Trump was embraced on Tuesday by voters in America’s most Hispanic city.




Trump won almost 35% of the Republican primary vote in Webb County, where Laredo is the county seat, comfortably ahead of Marco Rubio (28.4%) and Ted Cruz (28.2%), the Hispanic senator from Texas who finished first in the state overall.

Not that it takes a lot of GOP votes to win here – only 4,089 were cast in the race, compared with nearly 26,000 among Democrats. Laredo is 96% Hispanic or Latino, according to the 2010 census, and it is hugely Democratic: Barack Obama won 77% of the vote in the county in 2012. In an unusual spurt of eloquence, twice-failed GOP presidential hopeful and former Texas governor Rick Perry once called the border the blueberry in the tomato soup: a speck of nutrition for Democrats in a Republican-dominated state.

Despite the limited GOP voter pool, it is notable – and jarring – that Trump should not only triumph here but generally perform better in border counties than in the Texas interior, where Cruz was in command. After some small-scale polling at the Nevada caucuses, Tuesday’s outcome provided harder evidence that Trump has not been shunned by conservative Latinos. He may even have inspired them into action: he won more votes in Webb County than were cast in its primary in total in 2012.

[240 is Back]

Trump's wall would bring a MASSIVE amount of work and $$$ to those areas.  Trump would have the govt pay them massively for that land.

[JOHN MATRIX]

the idiots in the media are so clueless about this...they think every single brown person votes as a monolithic block and thinks exactly the same.

their stupid assumption that 'all latinos' are clamoring for amnesty and love illegal immigration is not only totally stupid but also racist.

Hispanic-AMERICANS are americans like anyone else and are just as effected by this stuff as other americans. some of the most die-hard republican, anti-amnesty people I know are hispanic

[Dos Equis]

Donald Trump was embraced on Tuesday by voters in America’s most Hispanic city.




Trump won almost 35% of the Republican primary vote in Webb County, where Laredo is the county seat, comfortably ahead of Marco Rubio (28.4%) and Ted Cruz (28.2%), the Hispanic senator from Texas who finished first in the state overall.

Not that it takes a lot of GOP votes to win here – only 4,089 were cast in the race, compared with nearly 26,000 among Democrats. Laredo is 96% Hispanic or Latino, according to the 2010 census, and it is hugely Democratic: Barack Obama won 77% of the vote in the county in 2012. In an unusual spurt of eloquence, twice-failed GOP presidential hopeful and former Texas governor Rick Perry once called the border the blueberry in the tomato soup: a speck of nutrition for Democrats in a Republican-dominated state.

Despite the limited GOP voter pool, it is notable – and jarring – that Trump should not only triumph here but generally perform better in border counties than in the Texas interior, where Cruz was in command. After some small-scale polling at the Nevada caucuses, Tuesday’s outcome provided harder evidence that Trump has not been shunned by conservative Latinos. He may even have inspired them into action: he won more votes in Webb County than were cast in its primary in total in 2012.

My math skills really stink, but if he won 35 percent of the vote in this county where 4089 votes were cast, and 96 percent were Hispanic, then we're talking about around 1373 votes?  Not exactly telling.  How did he do with Hispanic voters statewide in Texas?  That would tell us much more.