People are pulling lots of different nuggets out of Howard Fineman’s boffo interview with Trump capo Paul Manafort. And damn there’s a lot. (My own take on this is that you need to look at this presentation through the prism of saying very improbable things aggressively and with seeming total confidence in the belief that that will make people believe them. It might.) For my money though, this part is the best. On Trump’s seemingly disastrous numbers with Hispanic voters …
“The national polls are distorted,” Manafort said. “To get a national sample they rely too much on Hispanics from New York and California, which is where large populations are, but also where most of the radical Hispanics are.”
“But if you look at Hispanics in states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and even Florida, you see a different picture. We’re going to target Hispanic voters in those and other swing states.”
