Hannity Hosts Anti-Immigrant Voices To Misrepresent The Hispanic Electorate And Hype Trump’s Wall Plan
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While appearing as guests on Fox News’ Hannity, anti-immigrant advocates Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach and columnist A.J. Delgado left important context out of presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s plan to block immigrant remittances to finance his border wall and misrepresented the Latino electorate to claim that Trump is going to “do better than other Republicans with Hispanic voters.”
Hispanic media has previously documented Kobach’s career-long history of startling attacks on Latinos, and Kobach has taken credit for inspiring Trump’s plan to force Mexico to pay for a border wall by blocking remittances that Mexicans depend on to survive. Despite the plan being harshly criticized for being “not feasible,” possibly illegal, and “a mistake” that would “choke” the economy of a “key ally” like Mexico, Trump sycophant Sean Hannity congratulated Kobach on his success in including the border wall plan in the Republican Party platform. Kobach also said “the American people want” a wall, a claim that polls have contradicted by showing that 62 percent of Americans oppose building a border wall.
Hannity also lauded conservative columnist and Trump surrogate Delgado for predicting “from the beginning” that Trump would win the Hispanic vote, ignoring the fact that Delgado has pushed false information about the Latino electorate in the past.
The most recent polls have shown that Trump is still far behind Hillary Clinton in terms of the Hispanic vote, yet right-wing media figures have been hyping this as a win because they claim that Trump's support among Latinos is better than that received by former Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and John McCain. The Washington Post pointed out that this claim is misleading because Trump’s numbers are almost equal to Romney’s numbers in June of 2012. To claim that Trump is ‘“way above’ Romney and McCain is a reference to where they ended up in exit polls,” which is “comparing apples to oranges”. From the July 13 edition of Fox News’ Hannity: