House GOP Leader To Trump: You Need Latinos To Win California

House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy of Calif. smiles after finishing a speech about foreign policy, Monday, Sept. 28, 2015, during the John Hay Initiative, at a hotel in Washington. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) says Donald Trump is “probably the most confident person I’ve ever met” which is one of the reasons McCarthy says Trump asks him every time he sees him if he has what it takes to win California.

No Republican has won the state in a presidential election since George H. W. Bush won it in 1988, but as Trump’s been bullish on running in all 50 states, he has set his eye on California.

“He does not put a ceiling on himself,” McCarthy said.

McCarthy says he gives him one piece of advice.

“If you can’t get 40 percent of the Hispanic vote, you cannot win California,” McCarthy told an audience at a Politico-sponsored event Wednesday. “You’ve got to reach out.”

Trump has struggled to win over Latino voters as he’s made comments about deporting 11 million immigrants, building a border wall and accusing many immigrants in the country illegally of being hardened criminals.

McCarthy knows a thing or two about mobilizing Latino voters. Representing Bakersfield, 35 percent of his constituents are Latino. McCarthy said if you want to reach out to the community, the first thing you need to do is “you sit down and you listen.”

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  1. Donnie will never reach out to Hispanics, the crowd at his rallies would turn on him.

  2. McCarthy said if you want to reach out to the community, the first thing you need to do is “you sit down and you listen.”

    Donald doesn’t speak Mexican, Kevin.

  3. MExICAN raPISTS LOVE TRUMP. WILL voTE IN drOVEs. WILL Be a BEaUTiful, HUGe THing.

  4. McCarthy said if you want to reach out to the community, the first thing you need to do is “you sit down and you listen.”

    Donald Trump? Listen??

  5. Oh but the Mexicans love him. You wouldn’t believe how much they love him. They love him so much you’d get tired of watching them show how much they love him. It’s just great.

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