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Could Trump’s anti-Hispanic/Latino Rants hurt Republican Senate races in 3 States?

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While Donald Trump’s strong anti-immigrantation postions help him with HIS base….

They are increasing angst for Hispanic’s and other’s….

Could this hurt down ballot races for Congress come next November?

Florida, Colorado and Nevada has high Hispanic/Latino populations….

Could THAT help Democrats make gains off the back of Trump’s campaign?

The havoc Donald Trump is wreaking on the presidential race is just the beginning of the problems he is poised to cause Republicans in 2016. Already Trump and his anti-immigrant rhetoric is becoming a flashpoint in the down-the-ballot campaigns. The direction he is pulling his fellow Republicans could put in jeopardy the GOP’s majority in the Senate, as some of the cycle’s most competitive races are taking place in states with heavy Latino populations.

Of the five states that had the largest share of Hispanic voters in 2012 cycle, Florida, Colorado and Nevada are holding what are expected to be extremely contentious Senate races. And already, some of the candidates in those races have been expected to weigh in on Trump’s antics, which involve labeling Mexicans “rapists” and calling for the end of birth citizenship.

“That’s a question that comes up all the time,” Darryl Glenn, a Republican running for Senate in Colorado, told TPM. “What I’m hearing as I travel across the state is that he’s hitting the nerve. He’s addressing issues that we need to talk about.”

GOP Senate candidates are stuck between placating primary voters without completely isolating the Latino voters, who are a quickly growing share of each state’s electorate.

“Immigration does come up, and what we do as a party is we talk about what we recognize: that we recognize that we have a broken immigration system,” said Wadi Gaitan, communications director of the Florida GOP.

That Trump has earned the scorn of Hispanic voters is clear: Two-thirds of Hispanics in a recent Gallup poll viewed Trump unfavorably….

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