Trump may get the non-white vote to a greater degree that people think. My n=1: my sister-in-law is a Filipina immigrant (otherwise known as the Mexicans of Asia, as she likes to say). She's pretty metropolitan, works for a tech giant (mostly alongside various immigrant Asians and Indians, and native nerdy white guys), and isn't particularly religious (granted, she married my brother, who is quite culturally conservative). Anyways, she loves Trump. I haven't yet discussed exactly why with her, but my guess is that it has to do with his attacks on lawlessness and PC.
I really don't buy the narrative that guys like Trump and Cruz would lose a great deal of the Hispanic and Asian vote. In fact, I think it's an insult to lawful residents/citizens of Hispanic and Asian immigrant persuasion to say that they think it's totally okay for illegals to get special treatment.
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