Donald Trump made a hastily put together trip down to Mexico Wednesday to meet with President Enridue Pena Nieto, on the Mexican president’s invitation. The two discussed the current state of US-Mexico relations, and it seems to have gone well. But following their evening news report of Trump’s visit, CBS took the time to highlight Latino-American’s mobilizing against Trump. “Immigration activists loaded into a van and headed to a local registration office where they helped Latino residents register to vote,” reported Mireya Villarreal, “For them, this election is personal.”
In her report, Villarreal interviewed one of the immigration activists, “Organizer, Polo Morales, whose mother was deported back in the 70s and later became a U.S. Citizen, believes Donald Trump's trip to Mexico will work against him.” Villarreal then teed Morales up to take a swing at Trump, “Do you feel like this meeting is a way to try to manipulate Latino voters?”
Villarreal flaunted Trump’s uphill climb with Latino voters:
27 million Latinos are eligible to vote in the U.S. In the 2012 presidential election, 11 million Latinos voted. At least 13 million are expected to vote this year. A new poll shows Hillary Clinton with a 55 percent favorable rating among Latinos, versus Trump with 18 percent.
The CBS reporter even sought out former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin to swipe at the GOP nominee. “If he thinks all of a sudden because he's going there now, millions of Mexicans are going to love him and millions here in the United States are going to love him, he is wrong. He's dead wrong,” Marin said in her interview at an airport. It was noted that Marin was a “longtime Republican activist.”
Wrapping up her report, Villarreal seemed to praise the work the immigration activists were doing, stating, “This particular group is hoping to register 10,000 new voters for this particular presidential election, and they are more than a quarter of the way there.”