‘Maybe they were voting on economic issues, but at the end of the day, maybe voting against their own self-interest,’ CNN anchor says
CNN anchor Jim Acosta hosted a Hispanic supporter of Donald Trump on his show Thursday to assess the former president’s “big gains among Latino men.” He went on to lecture the man, saying he voted to see people “rounded up and put in camps.”
Acosta hosted three Latinos to assess the trend: New York Times journalist Lulu Garcia-Navarro, League of United Latin American Citizens president Domingo Garcia, and Republican National Hispanic Assembly vice-chair Luis Figueroa. He confided in Garcia-Navarro while bashing Figueroa, accusing him of voting to put “people in camps.”
“I definitely want to have a civil discussion,” Acosta told Figueroa. “But my question was, do you want to see mass deportations? Do you want to see mass deportations?”
“So the first thing that we need to do is close the border,” Figueroa said. “More than 10 million people illegally entered the country. There have to be deportations. There is no other way around.”
“Deportation camps?” Acosta responded. “Do you want to see people in camps? Rounded up and put in camps? Isn’t that what you voted for? Isn’t that what you voted for?” Figueroa insisted he did not, and Acosta turned to Garcia-Navarro.
“One of the things that I think we need to talk about is whether or not folks just had the wool pulled over their eyes,” Acosta told the Times journalist. “Maybe they were voting on economic issues, but at the end of the day, maybe voting against their own self-interest.”
Trump amassed support from 46 percent of Latino voters, the largest share of any Republican presidential candidate in history, according to Edison Research.
