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In the play "hamilton" the great line is that immigrants get things done. its not just hispanics who are voting because of some of the talk from donald trump about building a wall, about mexican rapists and deporting them. it is an attitude towards immigrants. and hispanics and other non-white voters are sensing that the republican party is really becoming an enemy of immigrants in this country. theyve come a long way from the campaign we covered in 2000. george w. bushs governor saying family v...

The giant audiences. its our ground game, its the -- its the staff and the money that weve been pouring into these states for months and the ones youre talking about specifically, and theyre counting on new hampshire, pennsylvania, north carolina, even florida to sort of cut their way. mobilizing all those hispanic voters. mobilizing college-educated voters who responded to her from the debate performances. well see. well see if the clinton ground game is really all its been cracked up to be. >>...

Joe heck who is hanging on to a potential senate seat, when hes running against a woman with a hispanic surname. there is a republican hispanic tradition that donald trump is trying to damage, but i think will remain part of the party regardless. >> you dont think donald trump has been disrespectful? >> no, hes talking about illegal immigration, that individual is one of the most biassed, i guess shes supposed to be a reporter, i dont know what was going on there. it was flat out dishonest. if y...

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>> hang on, both of you stop stop stop stop stop. hold on, maria. >> its dishonest. >> i hear this argument about what he said. heres the thing, the perception is reality. >> softer -- >> latinos believe -- >> thats a fair argument. >> will you please let me talk. latinos believe he called them rapists. whether that was his intent or not. thats what they believe. >> don, you can categorize every latino. >> hang on a second. and then the thing is, that he followed it up by talking about a deporta...

And i dont see that in this data. i see the percentage, in terms of african-americans and hispanics as percentages of the overall vote. i see that as holding steady from 2012. and potentially, as we get more numbers in from the west, i have a feeling that the hispanic segment will increase. >> and can i say something? he started calling this group of voters the forgotten man and the forgotten woman. and it was a closing argument. and the conversations i had tonight, with trump advisers, were alm...

Mexicans, donald trump insists hes gaining ground. >> were going to do great with the hispanics. >> latinos for hillary! >> reporter: among latinos, hillary clinton leads him by 45 percentage points. since winning the white house in 2004, the gop has lost more hispanic support each election cycle. >> sometimes i think donald trump look the at that gop autopsy after 2012 and decided to do the exact opposite. >> you dont like either candidate? >> really, no. >> reporter: torres, a puerto rican vot...

As one would expect. and that actually continues a long trend of that group trending toward the republican party. >> it wont be 80 or 90, but it will be the highest ever in florida. >> 60% of new voters in florida, hispanic voters, voting for the first time. >> panel, thank you. >> theyre going to have record turnout, thats for sure. in that way alone, florida is going to be a model for the rest of the nation. were going to hear from both campaigns this morning. we have the vp presidential nomin...

Is in there. >> top thing youre watching for tonight. >> when you come down the east coast, new hampshire, virginia, north carolina, florida, it may not be as late a night as mark said. i think hillary clinton gets 323 electoral votes and people like my daughter can actually say there is a female president of the united states. >> cautiously optimistic. republicans looking in mccomb county where there are a lot of reagan democrats who have all of a sudden come in play. the fact that were talking...

He was of mexican descent. and for decades folks have talked about the hispanic community and their voting potential as the sleeping giant. what donald trump has done is he has awoken that sleeping giant and when 7:00 comes around and polls close in florida and they release the early vote, hell see the power of that sleeping giant. >> now, do you believe, though, because youre talking about this relative to donald trump which is a crucial part of it but are these voters turning out to vote again...