Geraldo Rivera Has No Clue How Latinos with ‘Any Self Respect’ Could Back ‘Absolute Racist’ Trump Amid Favorable Polling
Geraldo Rivera doesn’t see how Latino voters with “any self-respect” could back former President Donald Trump and his controversial rhetoric.
Rivera joined NewsNation’s Leland Vittert on Monday, and in an exchange on Vice President Kamala Harris and voter concerns about immigration and the southern border, Rivera said his former friend Trump has become an “absolute racist” when it comes to his rhetoric on immigrants.
“He’s chosen to become an absolute racist when it comes to speaking of particularly Latin, undocumented immigrants, comparing them basically to animals. It’s horrifying. I don’t know how any Latino person of any self-esteem, any self-respect would be in favor of the ranting, the ‘poisoning the blood of the country’ —” Rivera said as Vittert jumped in to push back and note that Trump’s polling among Latino voters is outpacing 2016 and 2020.
“More Latinos are voting for Donald Trump or polling for Donald Trump how than in 2016 and in 2020. He’s on to something. I don’t know how Democrats and Kamala Harris supporters think they are going to convince either Black men who are leaving Kamala Harris or Latinos who are leaving Kamala Harris by saying, I don’t know how you’re in your right mind. Isn’t it worth examining why these people are leaving Kamala Harris rather than just telling them they’re wrong?” Vittert asked.
Rivera, who will be voting for Harris in the election, admitted that the southern border is the “biggest failure” of President Joe Biden’s administration but still blasted Trump, accusing him of “exacerbating” divisions for political gain.
“I want to be very frank about the fact that I believe the immigration system and the situation on the border represents the biggest failure of the Democratic administration, of the Biden-Harris administration. They have absolutely dropped the ball when it comes to the southern border and immigration generally,” he said. “My point is rather than work together, Donald Trump sought to exacerbate the divisions.”
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