The Trump Apocalypse Watch is a subjective daily estimate, using a scale of one to four horsemen, of how likely it is that Donald Trump will be elected president, thus triggering an apocalypse in which we all die.
Well, as you can see above, today Donald Trump announced via tweet that he was eating a taco bowl and loves Hispanics. He’s also currently polling at about 11 percent among Latinos, which is way down from the 23 percent Mitt Romney got in 2012 and wayyyyyy way down from the 44 percent the last winning Republican presidential candidate, George W. Bush, got in 2004. Will eating a generic Tex-Mex dish help Trump win over this voting bloc? My one-person survey of myself says the answer is no—and Slate campaign blogger Josh Voorhees’ survey of this year’s Senate races notes that Trump’s reputation among Latinos could also be a big obstacle to Republicans campaigning in states such as California, Nevada, and Florida. Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, has already started hanging Trump by his own petard in very effective new ads. Today, the Trump Apocalypse Watch danger level drops to one horseman.
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