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Chapter 1: What are the latest controversies surrounding Donald Trump?
Trump voters are getting a rude awakening. It seems every single day, whether it's Donald Trump posting about reopening Alcatraz or AI images of himself as the Pope, as the world is grieving the passing of Pope Francis, whether it's Donald Trump's trade wars against the world,
Or Donald Trump saying he doesn't know if he needs to follow the Constitution and saying that he doesn't believe immigrants should get due process and that they shouldn't get trials at all. When we're looking at the polling data, we're seeing some of the biggest drop off as well among Trump voters. Latino voters for Trump now overwhelmingly disapprove of Donald Trump.
And you remember we were showing you videos like this leading up to the election and even thereafter. Let's play this clip right here.
If they let in hundreds of thousands of people who already have criminal records, if deporting them creates a mass deportation, I'm all for it.
But what if rounded up in all of that are people who work on a farm? They're doing the jobs that Americans don't want to do.
Does that worry you? That wouldn't be fair. Of course, you know, they need to make sure that they don't throw away, they don't kick out, they don't deport people that are family oriented.
that are family oriented. Let's bring in Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego. Senator Gallego, you were warning leading up to the 2024 election about Latino defections. And that was one of the things that we saw. So tell us, what are you seeing now?
Well, I certainly have seen a reversal, mostly among Latino men. And I would say it started about three to four weeks ago. So it's a combination really of
The fact that they're deporting people that aren't criminals, that they're separating families, all these things that either, A, a lot of these voters lied to themselves and said that that wasn't going to happen, or, you know, let's be clear, Trump at different points in time will actually say the same thing.
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Chapter 2: Why are Latino voters turning away from Trump?
Yeah, yeah. Well, I never talk, I never try to talk to anybody about like bring objective data to the conversation. You know, I try to keep it extremely as close to reality as possible. And like,
you know what they understand and which without not not just latinos but everyone understands like you know are your wages going higher have prices gone down and normally they just tell me uh no that that's not the case and you know if you do that enough they'll they'll figure it out and
You know, I think there's going to be a lot of spinning that's going to happen from the right, from Donald Trump. At the end of the day, you know, inflation is still high. You still can't buy a house in Arizona. Rent is still high. You can't buy a vehicle cheaply anymore. And now there's a really good chance that you're going to be losing your job.
So everything that any trust that they've had for this president is now quickly, quickly eroding.
You're a veteran. You were in the Marines. I want to ask you your view about how Donald Trump's been handling the military, Pete Hegseth's careless handling of classified information, cutting of the VA. What have you made of all of their moves there?
Yeah, let's start with two separate things. Number one, this administration is the most anti-veteran administration in the history of this country. And I'm not even close, right? You know, today we had the VA secretary at our committee hearing, and he could not pinpoint why and where he came about that he wanted to cut the workforce of the VA by 15%. There's no logical reason to it.
There's no study. There's nothing. They just came up with this number. Some doge boy out of San Jose, California, who has zero experience with, you know, the VA came up with this number and now they're executing it. You know, this recently they tried to float the idea of changing Veterans Day to World War Two Day, World War One Day. Like, how stupid are you to even think about that?
You know, there's veterans that are starting to see the effects of some of these cuts, you know, where we're hearing about, you know, therapists that have to have some of their sessions in open, you know, open air cubicles, which is horrible for privacy matters. It is all bad. And it doesn't surprise me. Again, this man has zero concept of selflessness, self-service or service to the country.
And, you know, he thinks if he just acts tough, that the veterans would be happy with him in the end. And that's that's not the case. On the military side, the lack of leadership from Hegseth as well as just the fact that they're entirely eroding our world alliances and making the world more unstable is what I think also pisses off a lot of veterans.
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