Jorge Ramos: ‘Trump will be the last candidate who tries to win’ without Latinos
Univision’s Jorge Ramos on Tuesday attacked Donald Trump’s strategy with Hispanic voters, predicting that future GOP campaigns will take a different tack.
{mosads}”Regardless of the results, I think Trump will be the last candidate who tries to win without the Latino vote,” Ramos told CNN Money.
The Univision anchor, who feuded with Trump early in the presidential race, ripped the GOP presidential nominee for never granting his network an interview.
“At some point, he even said publicly that he was going to talk to me and/or Univision, but it never happened,” Ramos said. “I think he gave up on Latinos. He believes that he can win without the Latino vote, and that goes against the demographic trend in the U.S.”
“The only other candidate that didn’t want to talk to us was Bob Dole in 1996, and [he] lost,” Ramos added.
Ramos was ejected from a Trump press conference last summer when he tried to ask questions out of turn, and the two men traded insults at the event and in the media later. Separately, Trump sued Univision over a business dispute related to airing Trump’s Miss Universe pageant.
Ramos’s co-anchor Maria Elena Salinas told CNN Money no one from the Trump campaign had appeared on Univision.
“We asked for interviews with kids, nothing. We had Mike Pence booked, and he canceled,” she said of the vice presidential nominee.
In contrast, Hillary Clinton’s campaign hired staffers who spoke Spanish and had allies appear on Univision, campaign aide Kristina Schake said. And Clinton’s running mate, Tim Kaine, took frequent opportunities to show off his fluent Spanish on the campaign trail.
Clinton could garner a record-setting 80 percent of the Latino vote, according to a tracking poll analysis released last month.
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