Donald Trump Says Jeb Bush Should Stop Speaking Spanish
*If Trump’s favorability among Republicans is 57%, and GOP voters are about 30% of the electorate, then roughly 17% of the electorate favor him and what he says. VL
By Alan Rappeport, The New York Times
A day after taking steps to warm relations with Hispanics, Donald J. Trump may have taken a step backward Wednesday when he suggested that Jeb Bush was setting a bad example by speaking Spanish.
[pullquote]“He’s a nice man. But he should really set the example by speaking English while in the United States.”[/pullquote]“He’s a nice man. But he should really set the example by speaking English while in the United States,” Mr. Trump told Breitbart News in an interview.
This week, at an event in Miami, Mr. Bush said, “El hombre no es conservador,” making the case that Mr. Trump is not a conservative. The remark was part of Mr. Bush’s broader effort to aggressively confront Mr. Trump after months of weathering criticism from the billionaire tycoon.
Mr. Bush’s campaign manager, Danny Diaz, took to Twitter on Wednesday to scold Mr. Trump for being against the Spanish language and to accuse him of trying to destroy the Republican Party with his divisive language.
.@realDonaldTrump against Spanish? Says Reagan not conservative? Looks like one man mission to kill GOP: http://t.co/vck1LYTP2i#AllInForJeb
— Danny Diaz (@DannyLopezDiaz) September 2, 2015
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