# Donald Trump's 2016 General Election Campaign **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 4, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901 "2016-05-04T02:37:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 51
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1001 "2016-06-07T02:27:00Z")
T[rump lost the Puerto Rico primary over the weekend](http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/06/06/hilarious-trump-loses-puerto-rico-primary-someone-isnt-race-anymore/). Marco Rubio, who wasn’t even running, got 74% of the vote. ---
**Author:** ![Defensive\_Indifference](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/defensive_indifference/32/6502_2.png) [@Defensive\_Indifference](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Defensive_Indifference)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1002 "2016-06-07T02:37:31Z")
Lindsey Graham urges those who have endorsed Trump to rescind their endorsements, calling Trump’s attacks on Judge Curiel “the most un-American thing from a politician since Joe McCarthy”. > **[Democrats Jump on Allies of Donald Trump in Judge Dispute (Published 2016)](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/07/us/politics/democrats-trump-presidential-race.html?_r=1&referer=https:%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F)** > > A report that Mr. Trump urged his supporters to defend his criticisms of a judge’s Mexican heritage, and then rebuked his staff for having suggested otherwise, gave his rivals added ammunition. ---
**Author:** ![magellan01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@magellan01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/magellan01)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1003 "2016-06-07T02:40:33Z")
> [@Procrustus](#): > > Seriously? > That’s not was “racist” is. > > There are all kinds of “minority bar associations.” I’ve never heard anyone allege anything improper about it. Yeah, but calling it “The Race” is problematic, no? How is “The Race” not racist? ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1004 "2016-06-07T02:45:13Z")
> [@DSeid](#): > > What? He’s going to lose more Hispanic share? His candidacy is predicated upon those who love this crap, who want to vote other than what has been, even if, or maybe in some cases especially if, it means voting for insane. Their problem is not his losing Hispanic share, but the Hispanic share getting bigger as those not registered flock to register and to vote. If more same white Republican voters stay home, they are screwed for down ticket races also. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1005 "2016-06-07T03:04:00Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Yeah, but calling it “The Race” is problematic, no? How is “The Race” not racist? [When it is a poor translation, for one.](http://sdlrla.com/the-name/) > [@](#): > > Many people incorrectly translate the name, “La Raza,” as “the race.” While it is true that one meaning of “raza” in Spanish is indeed “race,” in Spanish, as in English and any other language, words can and do have multiple meanings. As noted in several online dictionaries, “La Raza” means “the people” or “the community.” > Translating our name as “the race” is not only inaccurate, it is factually incorrect. “Hispanic” is an ethnicity, not a race. As anyone who has ever met a Dominican American, Mexican American, or Spanish American can attest, Hispanics can be and are members of any and all races. > The term “La Raza” has its origins in early 20th century Latin American literature and translates into English most closely as “the people” or, according to some scholars, as “the Hispanic people of the New World.” The term was coined by Mexican scholar José Vasconcelos to reflect the fact that the people of Latin America are a mixture of many of the world’s races, cultures, and religions. In contrast, the term “Hispanic” has its origins in the 1970 U.S. Census, and the term “Latino” was officially adopted in 1997 by the U.S. Government in the ethnonym “Hispanic or Latino.” > Mistranslating “La Raza” to mean “the race” implies that it is a term meant to exclude others. In fact, the full term coined by Vasconcelos, “La Raza Cósmica,” meaning the “cosmic people,” was developed to reflect not purity but the mixture inherent in the Hispanic people. This is an inclusive concept, meaning that Hispanics share with all other peoples of the world a common heritage and destiny. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1006 "2016-06-07T03:04:55Z")
> [@magellan01](#): > > Yeah, but calling it “The Race” is problematic, no? How is “The Race” not racist? Well, the conservatives at RedState clearly see Trump as the racist, and the “La Raza” item. Not so much. > **[The Dishonest Attempt to Associate Gonzalo Curiel with "La Raza"](https://redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/06/03/dishonest-attempt-associate-gonzalo-curiel-la-raza-n59504)** > >   > [@](#): > > The Dishonest Attempt to Associate Gonzalo Curiel with “La Raza” > > … > > Based on a pretty good amount of evidence, Trump University was a fraud, Trump did lie about the extent of his participation in it, and the people he defrauded should have their day in court. I see no evidence that Curiel has done anything wrong whatsoever in this case, or improper. > > Anyway, in addition to Trump’s overtly racist attack on Curiel, in which Trump explicitly said that Curiel cannot be trusted to rule fairly on any case involving Trump or any of his companies solely on the basis of his Mexican heritage, both Trump and certain lazy/dishonest conservative bloggers have attempted to affiliate Curiel with “La Raza.” > > What they are attempting to do is associate Curiel with the National Council of La Raza, the radical left-wing and pro-illegal-immigration group that has gained significant notoriety in the news over the years as a group that is both anti-American and open to fomenting violent pro-immigration protests. > > Curiel, however, has no affiliation with this group whatsoever. He is a member of La Raza Lawyers of California – aka the Latino Bar Association of California. They have absolutely no affiliation with National Council of La Raza. As for the attempt at making “la raza” to be problematic, it is mostly problematic all right, but mostly for the ones that also have the vapors when seeing words like “Colored” in the NAACP, that some nuts are abusing of it does not remove the history behind “La Raza.” Here is Gustavo Arellano from “Ask a Mexican”: > **[¡Ask a Mexican!](https://www.tucsonweekly.com/tucson/andiexclask-a-mexican/Content?oid=1092000)** > > What's with calling yourselves La Raza? > [@](#): > > Betcha they’ve never read the primary source from which “la raza” originated–José Vasconcelos’ 1925 booklet, La Raza Cósmica (The Cosmic Race). Vasconcelos, Mexico’s first secretary of public education, wrote his piece as a reaction to the race thinking of the time, one dominated by adherents of Darwinism and Herbert Spencer’s “survival of the fittest” prism that placed the gabacho above all people. The Mexican intellectual also subscribed to racial stratifications, but whereas others saw unavoidable strife, Vasconcelos imagined something greater. La Raza Cósmica is a classic work of the prophetic tradition, one in which Vasconcelos predicted humanity would evolve into a fifth race, free of the negative attributes each racial group possessed, to create a harmonious existence–the cosmic race, la raza cósmica. Crucially, Vasconcelos never stated Mexicans were that race, but rather wrote that Latin America’s legacy of mestizaje posited “Ibero-Americans” as prime acolytes to spread the gospel of fusion–not through violence, but “the triumph of fecund love.” > > The raza cósmica theory is utopian and even goofy–but it’s ultimately an anti-racist dream. Vasconcelos was by no means perfect–he didn’t like ugly people and was too fixated on the superiority of Spanish qualities–but his ideal is one not that removed from that American standby, the melting pot. He even understood the humanity of gabachos–“The exclusion of the Yankee (from la raza cosmic), like the exclusion of any other human type, would be equivalent to an anticipated mutilation, more deadly even than a later cut.” > > Needless to say, Vasconcelos’ theory gained fans across Latin America. But it wasn’t until the 1960s Chicano movement that the concept of la raza cósmica gained further followers. Like most things they took from Mexico (food, women, the language), Chicanos corrupted Vasconcelos’ vision, interpreted “la raza” as referring exclusively to Mexicans and forgot the whole brotherhood bit. > > “It is true that mestizaje is one of the central concepts of the Vasconcelos essay,” states the introduction to Didier T. Jaén’s excellent translation of La Raza Cósmica, “but, of course, it is also clear that the racial mixture Vasconcelos refers to is much wider, much more encompassing, than what can be understood by the mestizaje of the Mexican or Chicano.” > > Like Vasconcelos, the Chicano definition of “la raza” was rooted in its turbulent time. It was during this era that the organization that preceded NCLR incorporated that term into its name in 1972. But over the decades, the cósmica part of la raza was largely dropped, as was the ethnocentrism, and what remained was a benign synonym for Mexicans. > > People can disagree with NCLR’s policies, but to classify them as the Tan Klan because of their name is like a prude getting offended over the name of the titmouse. By the way: Don’t paint me as an NCLR apologist. I think the organization’s president, Janet Murguia, is stupid for trying to get right-wing pundits off the air, mostly because they’re so easy to prove wrong. Besides, the only raza that truly matters is mine: the Nerd race. Por mis Nerds todo; fuera de mis Nerds, nada. One warning: He is offensive to many conservatives that continue to be ignorant in the rest of the article. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1007 "2016-06-07T03:09:13Z")
> [@Voyager](#): > > Their problem is not his losing Hispanic share, but the Hispanic share getting bigger as those not registered flock to register and to vote. If more same white Republican voters stay home, they are screwed for down ticket races also. Play with [that 538 app](http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-swing-the-election/) … few states flip even if Hispanic turnout and share both increase significantly and the impact can be more than offset if in return non-college educated White turnout and share increases on the other side. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1008 "2016-06-07T03:18:37Z")
Trump lets it slip on O’Reilly that Fox News feeds him the questions he is to be asked on their shows. [https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/740014028282564609?s=09](https://twitter.com/BecketAdams/status/740014028282564609?s=09) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1009 "2016-06-07T03:49:33Z")
RE: **Gigo** ’s post Well, shit! I thought _gabacho_ mean smart and handsome, like _pendejo_! ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1010 "2016-06-07T04:29:43Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > T[rump lost the Puerto Rico primary over the weekend](http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/06/06/hilarious-trump-loses-puerto-rico-primary-someone-isnt-race-anymore/). Marco Rubio, who wasn’t even running, got 74% of the vote. That article is wrong. The Republican primary was in March. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1011 "2016-06-07T04:41:16Z")
> [@Lord\_Feldon](#): > > That article is wrong. The Republican primary was in March. There’s a bunch of sites reporting the same story. Obviously, someone somehow dug up old news and in their zeal to be topical, the others went like dominoes. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1012 "2016-06-07T04:43:52Z")
> [@Rick\_Kitchen](#): > > T[rump lost the Puerto Rico primary over the weekend](http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/06/06/hilarious-trump-loses-puerto-rico-primary-someone-isnt-race-anymore/). Marco Rubio, who wasn’t even running, got 74% of the vote. > **[2016 United States presidential primaries in Puerto Rico](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_primaries_in_Puerto_Rico,_2016#Republican_primary)** > > Although Puerto Rico did not participate in the November 8, 2016, general election because it is a territory and not a state, the five non-incorporated territories that send delegates to the United States House of Representatives participated in the presidential primaries. > In the presidential primaries, Puerto Rico voters expressed their preferences for the Democratic and Republican parties' respective nominees for president. Registered members of each party only voted in their party's primar... Stop citing OccupyDemocrats. They’re _phenomenally_ inaccurate. ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1013 "2016-06-07T04:47:41Z")
> [@running\_coach](#): > > There’s a bunch of sites reporting the same story. Obviously, someone somehow dug up old news and in their zeal to be topical, the others went like dominoes. Some news websites put the results from both primaries [side by side](http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/primaries/PR) on their live results pages, and I think people aren’t noticing the different dates. It also happened after the Kentucky Democratic Primary. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1014 "2016-06-07T04:48:40Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > [2016 United States presidential primaries in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_primaries_in_Puerto_Rico,_2016#Republican_primary) > > Stop citing OccupyDemocrats. They’re _phenomenally_ inaccurate. [Bob Uecker] “_Juust_ a little bit outside.” [/BU] ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1015 "2016-06-07T05:45:34Z")
“Racism” has always been a very ambiguous word. I’d avoid the term altogether except in the most blatant and egregious cases. > [@magellan01](#): > > Yeah, but calling it “The Race” is problematic, no? How is “The Race” not racist? 😕 Is it racist for Hispanics to call each other Hispanic? IIRC, in other threads you’ve defended whites from well-founded charges of “racism.” Now you accuse Hispanics of “racism” just for self-identifying? 😕 Double-standard much? ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1016 "2016-06-07T05:49:29Z")
> [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](#): > > [2016 United States presidential primaries in Puerto Rico - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_primaries_in_Puerto_Rico,_2016#Republican_primary) > > Stop citing OccupyDemocrats. They’re _phenomenally_ inaccurate. You made me click a link just to see 71% instead of 74%?? :mad: Why not write “71%” in your post if that minor difference was oh-so-very important to you? :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1017 "2016-06-07T05:58:20Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > You made me click a link just to see 71% instead of 74%?? :mad: Why not write “71%” in your post if that minor difference was oh-so-very important to you? :smack: I know it’s a big effort to click on links, but the date is the more important difference. :mad::smack::mad::smack::mad::smack: ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Ace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6bbea6/32.png) [@Johnny\_Ace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Ace)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1018 "2016-06-07T06:10:43Z")
To save people clicking, the GOP Puerto Rico primary was held on Mar. 6. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1019 "2016-06-07T06:45:16Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ace](#): > > To save people clicking, the GOP Puerto Rico primary was held on Mar. 6. 🙂 Thank you, **Johnny Ace**. **Lord Feldon** was so eager to show his snark and icon-clicking skill he culdn’t be bothered to omit the very error I complained of. ::appropriate icon:: ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [June 7, 2016, 7:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901/1020 "2016-06-07T07:49:20Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > You made me click a link just to see 71% instead of 74%?? :mad: Why not write “71%” in your post if that minor difference was oh-so-very important to you? :smack: Yeah, it was the date. But seriously, as a matter of principle, there have been a bunch of hard-left pseudojournalistic blogs popping up lately - OccupyDemocrats, IfYouOnlyNews, AddictingInfo… They seem to be related somehow, and they’re all _garbage_. Their fact-checking is virtually non-existent. Half the times it seems like their “news” is completely made up, and the other half, it’s given the most blatantly dishonest partisan spin I’ve seen on the left since Michael Moore. Everybody stop citing these guys. Just stop it. Stop sharing them on facebook, stop clicking on the links, stop giving them traffic. Not only are we better than this, but we don’t need to make shit up about our opponents! It’s DONALD FUCKIN’ TRUMP! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=50) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trumps-2016-general-election-campaign/753901.md?page=52)