Colorado Politics

Trump in Denver tells black, Latino voters: ‘What have you got to lose?’

It was a long day for Donald Trump and a long night for the Coloradans who rocked on their heels in the dust and waited into the night in a basement-level livestock show at the National Western Complex Saturday night in Denver. He went on an hour past schedule, at 10:30 p.m., but the crowd had the energy of 10:30 a.m.

Despite Saturday stops in Florida, North Carolina, Delaware and Nevada, Trump was spry. He brought home a message tailored to the crowd.

He named the companies that had laid off Colorado workers and moved to China. “We will stop the jobs leaving Colorado,” he pledged. “You’re losing a lot.”

Trump named people in Colorado who had been killed by undocumented immigrants, vowing to “stop the nightmare of violence.” He rattled off the names of the state’s military bases as he promised to help them.

Some polls have the race with Hillary Clinton virtually knotted in Colorado. A Keating Research, Inc./OnSight Public Affairs poll Friday indicated Clinton leads by 5 percentage points. Trump trailed among likely Hispanic voters 57 percent to 19.

The candidate in Colorado said he’s doing great with Hispanic voters as he discussed his plan to build a wall along the Mexican border and have Mexico pay for it, “100 percent,” but it would have a big, beautiful door for legal immigration.

“Everyone’s saying what’s going on?” Trump said of his perceived success with Latino voters.

“It’s because they get it,” he said. “They’re smart. They get it. They get it. They’re tired of getting ripped off. They get it.

“To the African-American community, to the Hispanic-Latino community, I say sincerely, what do you have to lose?”

His immigration rhetoric in Denver wasn’t as involved or pointed as it had been in Reno, Nev., earlier Saturday evening. It was just after he wrapped up talking about stopping illegal immigration that he was rushed off the stage after someone said they saw a gun nearby. (No gun was found.)

“There goes  the country,” he said of Clinton’s border security policies.

He hammered on now-familiar campaign themes-his “largest tax cut since Reagan,” Hillary Clinton’s scandals, the dishonest media, renegotiating trade deals and building up the military.

In a rare moment of soaring rhetoric from the plain-spoken New Yorker, he spoke of the people he had met along the campagin trail.

“Their hopes have become my hopes. Their dreams have become my dreams.”

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