this is really interesting. more than one-third if hispanics voters in texas cast their ballots for donald trump in 2016 but a new survey shows that his support has dimmed ahead of the 2020 election. let s bring in stephanie valencia, co-founder of equis lab, an organization working to create a better understanding of the latin american electorate. so this survey is so interesting. it looks at gender and different states, what s your takeaway from it, stephanie? the bottom line is that latinos will be the x factor in 2020. there will be 32 million eligible latino voters heading into 2020 and will play a really important role in the places we always have, like the mountain west, in places like new mexico, colorado and nevada where we have slowly seen those states turn blue over time. we will play a really critical role in new and emerging battleground states like arizona and texas. we ll also play a really
president would pardon them. and of course there are there s, of course, his mocking and ridiculing the people of puerto rico as hurricane dorian was bearing down on them. can you provide us some context? i know it s impossible to explain the way donald trump s mind works, but can you provide us some context for the past five, six days? why has the president become even more imbalanced and unmoored? joe, when you go through that list with white house officials and trump advisers and you ask them privately what s happening, their explanation is it s not about what s happening, it s about what s not happening for president trump. they say tensions are rising inside of the white house because he can t get a deal on china on trade.
that irritates him. yeah, and adrienne elrod, for the president of the united states being angry at fox news for not being sufficiently loyal, i suppose, would come as a great shock not only to hillary clinton but also to people like you who worked for hillary clinton and who have seen the channel continue to attack her even three years after she left public office. yeah, joe. i mean fox news has made millions, billions of dollars over the course of the last 20 years attacking hillary clinton, attacking bill clinton. they would not be a profitable network if they had not been constantly attacking the clintons and are still doing so, especially when they re trying to deviate from all the problems that donald trump has caused this country, the lack of policies that he s passed for the base that supported him in 2016. he knows he s in trouble. but what s equally disturbing here, joe, is the fact that donald trump has acted like that
again, let s talk facts. that s what conservatives used to claim they were about. facts. facts were stubborn things, as the old saying goes. when donald trump was running for office, illegal border crossings were at a 50 year low. when donald trump was running for office in 2016, talking about building that wall, illegal border crossings were at a 50 year low. to put that in perspective, i was 3 years old and too young to play t-ball the last time illegal border crossings were as low as they were in 2016. considering how old i am, that s saying a lot. still ahead on morning joe, senator kirsten gillibrand is bowing out of the presidential
important role where we have a small but rapidly growing population in key battleground states of north carolina, michigan and wisconsin. and then there is always florida, right? the complicated nature of the latino community in florida is one that we need to better understand. so this research study is a ground-breaking study because we are trying to unearth the nuance of the latino community across the country. we ve surveyed 8100 voters in 11 different states and really tried to understand who is the latino voter today. as we head into 2020 and beyond, we re a community that is getting bigger, not smaller, and we are not a monolith, we are not a one issue constituency and don t just care about the issue of immigration. we re a very, very diverse constituency so there are four key findings that i would pull out for you all. one is that anger at donald trump is not going to be enough. we found like a 30-point gap between motivation and excitement among latino voters, which means that