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You are here: Home / Elections / Election 2016 / Day Three at the RNC Yields A Major Endorsement

Day Three at the RNC Yields A Major Endorsement

by Tom Levenson|  July 20, 20165:24 pm| 45 Comments

This post is in: Election 2016, Hail to the Hairpiece, Hillary Clinton 2016

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Via TPM we hear that

The [Hispanic Chamber of Commerce]  president and CEO, Javier Palomarez, announced it would be endorsing Hillary Clinton in the general election in an interview with CNN.

It’s the first time the group has ever endorsed a candidate for president in the general election…

More from The Huffington Post:

Palomarez told The Huffington Post ahead of the formal announcement of the endorsement that it was motivated by Clinton’s understanding of small businesses, outreach to Latinos, and her record. But it’s also partially about Trump.

“We believe it is appropriate for us to weigh in and say enough is enough,” Palomarez said, after criticizing “what we’re hearing from Donald Trump in his campaign: divisive, mean-spirited language [that] has marginalized Hispanics, immigrants, American POWs, Muslims, women, the disabled ― and the list goes on.”

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Speaking to CNN (as quoted in TPM above) Palomaraz added:

“In sharp contrast, Hillary Clinton has run a campaign of inclusiveness and togetherness. That’s what we need. We need stability. We need people collaborating to move the economy forward.”

Timing is everything.  And this is sweet.

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45Comments

  1. 1.

    JPL

    July 20, 2016 at 5:26 pm

    MSMedia will be talking about the endorsement shortly.

  2. 2.

    RandomMonster

    July 20, 2016 at 5:28 pm

    They get that liberal tolerance is not only good, it’s good for business too.

  3. 3.

    sukabi

    July 20, 2016 at 5:30 pm

    The only thing that would make this better, is if they could Colbert the endorsement from the actual podium at the convention.

  4. 4.

    RandomMonster

    July 20, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    TPM is saying he made the endorsement while at the RNC convention. Makes it so much sweeter!

  5. 5.

    Corner Stone

    July 20, 2016 at 5:31 pm

    Has anyone heard from The Hedge Fund Boys lately? Or how they are quietly, quietly transitioning Trump for planned upcoming pivot?

  6. 6.

    MomSense

    July 20, 2016 at 5:32 pm

    I haven’t read it yet but all three sons are pissed off about the NYT coverage of the Christie convention speech. Ugh. We will have to be strong for this election because the BS is already off the charts.

  7. 7.

    Baud

    July 20, 2016 at 5:35 pm

    I actually wouldn’t be overly surprised if the National Chamber endorses Clinton. Trump is that bad.

  8. 8.

    Corner Stone

    July 20, 2016 at 5:36 pm

    Skipping through World War Z on FX. Or is it the RNC Convention on MSNBC?
    Hmmmm…

  9. 9.

    O. Felix Culpa

    July 20, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    The Trump campaign “has gone from frankly something that was entertaining, comical, and has devolved into something that is frankly scary,” said Javier Palomarez, the chamber president and chief executive officer.

    Yes. Very scary. But don’t tremble, organize. ¡Muchas gracias to the good people at the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce!

    ETA: I never thought Trump was entertaining. Ever. But YMMV.

  10. 10.

    Mary G

    July 20, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    Hillary’s been all over the Spanish-language social media my caregiver follows. She got naturalized in 2008 to vote for Obama, but is much more engaged this cycle due to the wall, etc. I’ve got her working on her cousins in Georgia.

  11. 11.

    dmsilev

    July 20, 2016 at 5:37 pm

    @Corner Stone: They’re still trying to figure out how to shift the Brinks Truck from neutral into reverse.

  12. 12.

    Luthe

    July 20, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    I knew the convention was going to an entertaining shitshow, but I didn’t realize how much popcorn I was going to need!

  13. 13.

    Corner Stone

    July 20, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    Sen. Lankford: “The Death Eaters have spoken. Pence makes me feel good.”

  14. 14.

    Cat48

    July 20, 2016 at 5:39 pm

    I just read the statement from Trump’s employee re: the speech. She said she talked to Melania about whose speeches she’s liked in the past and who she admires as a person. She said she had always liked Michelle. That’s touching or sad to me. Also, surprising.

  15. 15.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 20, 2016 at 5:40 pm

    @Baud:
    I would consider the CoC endorsement a ratfuck – if they are for her how can any decent person be for her?

  16. 16.

    rikyrah

    July 20, 2016 at 5:40 pm

    @JPL:
    They won’t, but the Spanish language press will be all over it.

  17. 17.

    Brachiator

    July 20, 2016 at 5:42 pm

    @JPL:

    MSMedia will be talking about the endorsement shortly.

    When you do a google search for “hispanic chamber of commerce endorsement” you see a boatload of stories from all the major news sites, including reuters, cnn, the guardian, politico, marketplace, etc.

  18. 18.

    Chyron HR

    July 20, 2016 at 5:43 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Has anyone heard from The Hedge Fund Boys lately?

    They’re hot on the trail of Dan Backslide.

  19. 19.

    raven

    July 20, 2016 at 5:44 pm

    @Brachiator: Come on, it’s part of the deal to bitch and moan about the fucking “media”. You should hear Herman Cain.

  20. 20.

    Baud

    July 20, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan: I don’t know or care what the CoC will do, but I expect all decent people to be for Hillary in this election given what’s on the other side.

  21. 21.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 20, 2016 at 5:45 pm

    @Cat48:
    ANy normal person (and for the moment I will allow that Melanoma is more normal than any Trump) can appreciate Mrs. Obama. She is classy, smart, articulate, thoughtful and charming, everything I’d want my daughter to be. It is just the sick fucks on the right that have tried to portray her as a demon.

  22. 22.

    Major Major Major Major

    July 20, 2016 at 5:46 pm

    @Brachiator: But I heard the media was doing everything it could to ensure a Republican victory.

  23. 23.

    Cat48

    July 20, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan:
    Hasn’t the Hispanic CoC always been bipartisan? They ask both parties to speak to them, unlike the white CoC.

  24. 24.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 20, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    @Baud:
    exactly, all decent people. That be definition excludes the CoC.

    @Cat48:
    we were talking about the national CoC. Almost all of the others are not the batshit insane bullshit peddlers that the US CoC is.

  25. 25.

    JPL

    July 20, 2016 at 5:47 pm

    @Brachiator: Earlier I did google Trump and civil servants. It did come up with a few news sites.. The largest being CBS, so thanks for the info.

  26. 26.

    JPL

    July 20, 2016 at 5:48 pm

    @raven: lol.. I might have to stream Joe in the morning and see if he mentions it.

  27. 27.

    maya

    July 20, 2016 at 5:48 pm

    What, the HCC hasn’t heard about Trumpamundo, the Donald’s new Hispanic outreach TV show that will broadcast in pig-latin?

  28. 28.

    Cat48

    July 20, 2016 at 5:50 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    So Melanoma is more normal than the freak she married? I love Michelle & the kids, but the freaks in the GOP are required to hate her I guess. :)

  29. 29.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 20, 2016 at 5:53 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan:
    damn auto-correct. I obviously meant Mrs. Trump but my phone apparently knows better than I do what I meant.

    It is her husband that is a cancer on the nation.

  30. 30.

    Baud

    July 20, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan: I’ll take non-decent support. I want to run up the score.

  31. 31.

    Cat48

    July 20, 2016 at 5:54 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    It’s sorta funny the regular CoC has been working with the WH bc they are desperate for a large infrastructure package. The WH approved them but the GOP would not. They wanted a bad economy.

  32. 32.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 20, 2016 at 5:57 pm

    @Cat48:
    She did not grow up the pampered scion of an inflamed asshole so I assume her personal ethics/morality module still functions. I assume that is the major reason she wants no part of his shit show. She supports her husband but I bet she secretly hopes he fails for a lot of reasons. I don’t buy for a minute that someone who willingly parades around naked on camera is attention adverse and uncomfortable with attention.

  33. 33.

    Brachiator

    July 20, 2016 at 5:58 pm

    @raven:

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Come on, it’s part of the deal to bitch and moan about the fucking “media”. You should hear Herman Cain.

    Yeh, I know. But the reality is that the media, especially print media, is dying and all media is becoming less powerful, less meaningful, less relevant every day.

    Hell, even old monsters like Rush Limbaugh are old cheese. In Los Angeles, one of the biggest drive time radio markets, Rush has long been booted from the number one English language station and relegated down the dial to a third tier Clear Channel Station. His show is not even referred to by any cross promotion.

    And increasingly, when younger people pay attention to any news at all, it is chopped up bits that pop up on their Twitter feed or Facebook Page. Ask them about The Village, and at best you will get a blank stare in return.

    But yeah, old habits are hard to break. And both liberals and conservatives love to bash a media that doesn’t give them what they think they want.

  34. 34.

    Cat48

    July 20, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    Agree with you.

  35. 35.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 20, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    @Cat48:
    and yet I fully expect the assholes to endorse Drumpf this year.

  36. 36.

    TS

    July 20, 2016 at 5:59 pm

    @Cat48:

    That’s touching or sad to me. Also, surprising.

    And most likely untrue

  37. 37.

    raven

    July 20, 2016 at 6:03 pm

    @Brachiator:
    Someone here will try and waste your time
    And someone there will try and lead you blind
    Life seems to be wandering ’round and ’round
    Searching for the that which can be found

    It’s you, you, you, it’s me, me, me
    It’s you and me, babe, we’re all the same

  38. 38.

    ruckus

    July 20, 2016 at 6:26 pm

    @Brachiator:
    The media is becoming more and more unimportant in the general scheme of things but it has a way to go with a large, old segment of the population.

  39. 39.

    Roger Moore

    July 20, 2016 at 6:29 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    exactly, all decent people. That be definition excludes the CoC.

    Trump is bad enough that even some non-decent people (e.g. Erick Erickson) have come out against him.

  40. 40.

    Roger Moore

    July 20, 2016 at 6:39 pm

    @Schlemazel Khan:

    and yet I fully expect the assholes to endorse Drumpf this year.

    Of course. The Congressional Republicans aren’t opposing infrastructure spending because they hate infrastructure spending; they’re doing it because they hate the Democratic president. The obvious solution, from the CoC’s point of view, is to get rid of the Democratic president, so the Republican Congress will once again be willing to support massive spending and tax cuts.

  41. 41.

    Soylent Green

    July 20, 2016 at 6:52 pm

    @Cat48:

    She said she had always liked Michelle.

    There’s still no reason to think that Trump holds conservative principles, or any principles for that matter. Before his ego reached critical mass and fissioned into this campaign, he voiced many liberal views and was pals with the Clintons.

    So why should Melania share the biases of Trump’s base? They back him because they are suckers. He could just as well have run for the Democratic nom, but correctly surmised that the wingnuts would be much easier marks. I doubt that she has anything but a low opinion of her husband’s mob.

    I wonder how Ivanka and Chelsea are getting along these days.

  42. 42.

    Brachiator

    July 20, 2016 at 6:53 pm

    @ruckus:

    The media is becoming more and more unimportant in the general scheme of things but it has a way to go with a large, old segment of the population.

    Even the olds are getting more news from Facebook than from traditional media. And curated right wing sites for a lot of conservatives. It’s a brave new stupid world. Much like the old biased stupid world.

  43. 43.

    Soylent Green

    July 20, 2016 at 6:59 pm

    That the young are not getting their news from the Villagers does not mean they are any less well-informed. Social media is a set of overlapping echo chambers in which sloppy thinking gets reinforced.

  44. 44.

    Schlemazel Khan

    July 20, 2016 at 7:14 pm

    @Roger Moore:
    Tru dat

    @Roger Moore:
    Nail head, meet hammer. That is the real reason for it.

  45. 45.

    boatboy_srq

    July 20, 2016 at 9:10 pm

    The tRump candidacy is becoming more and more an illustration of GOTea foundational principles. The “little people” don’t matter except when it comes time to “vote”. Theyre the anti-Bourbons: they’re all for showering the masses with bread so long as the Bastille remains unbleached and the guillotines are only used on the RIGHT people. Imagine Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette if they outwardly gave a damn about the populace (never mind what they actually think). They’re l’etat c’est moi plus table scraps. Why SHOULD any of that clan care what the mob thinks so long as what they say keeps them on their side long enough to make it to the WH?

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