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Trump's inroads among Texas Latinos
President Trump won a higher percentage of the Latino vote nationally in 2024 than previously believed and came within striking distance of capturing a historic majority of those voters, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of the election results. Why it matters: In Texas, the trend around Latino voters "is mostly bad for those harboring ambitions of the Democratic Party becoming a competitive force in the state," Jim Henson and Joshua Blank of the Texas Politics Project at the University of Texas wrote in an election post-mortem earlier this year. What they're saying: The signs of Trump's success among Texas Latinos were "hiding in plain sight," per Henson and Blank. On the key campaign issues of the economy and border security, Texas Latinos favored the positions most associated with Republicans, state polling found. Stunning stat: In February 2016, 65% of Texas Latinos identified as Democrats. In December 2024, it was 45%, per polling from the Texas Politics Project. Zoom out: The Pew analysis confirms what early exit polls hinted: former Vice President Kamala Harris dramatically underperformed previous Democratic presidential candidates among Latinos, a rapidly growing and once-solidly Democratic voting bloc that has taken a big swing toward Republicans. Pew's analysis shows Trump won 48% of all U.S. Latino voters — a group that soundly rejected him in 2020 and 2016 — and that it was a crucial factor in his victory. Separately, exit polls in Texas suggested that Trump won 55% of the Latino vote — a 13-point increase from 2020, per the Texas Politics Project.
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Comedian Shane Gillis jabs Trump on Epstein at ESPYs
Comedian Shane Gillis on Wednesday evening poked fun at President Trump over his administration's handling of the files related to disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. While hosting the 2025 ESPYs, Gillis first knocked Trump for his role surrounding the Jan. 6. 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. 'Donald Trump wants to stage a UFC fight on the White House lawn,' he said. 'The last time he staged a fight in D.C., [former Vice President] Mike Pence almost died.' Gillis then told the audience that he didn't personally write that joke. He added: 'Actually, there was supposed to be an Epstein joke here, but I guess it got deleted.' 'Probably deleted itself, right? Probably never existed, actually,' the comedian added. 'Let's move on as a country and ignore that.' The joke riffs on Trump's insistence that the focus on documents connected to Epstein is a 'hoax' started by Democrats. Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on allegations of leading a sex trafficking operating involving minors. His August 2019 death in a New York City jail was ruled a suicide. 'Some stupid Republicans and foolish Republicans fall into the net, and so they try and do the Democrats' work,' the president said earlier Wednesday during an Oval Office meeting with the crown prince of Bahrain. 'I call it the Epstein hoax. Takes a lot of time and effort. Instead of talking about the great achievements we've had … they're wasting their time with a guy who obviously had some very serious problems, who died three, four years ago,' he added, 'I'd rather talk about the success we have with the economy.' Prominent Republicans and Trump supporters, including Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), have in recent days called for greater transparency from the administration around files related to Epstein. Right-wing activist and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), ardent allies of the president, have also called for a special counsel to review the administration's handling of the case. The backlash stems from a joint memo issued last week by the Justice Department and FBI that concluded Epstein did not have a so-called 'client list' — or a list of names he kept to use as blackmail in the future. It also reaffirmed the medical examiner's determination that the late financier's death was a suicide. The report seemingly contradicted Attorney General Pam Bondi's comments in February when she suggested a client list was already on her desk awaiting review. The Trump administration has doubled down on the findings and said Bondi meant the case files as a whole. The findings incensed members of the MAGA movement, who have for years pushed conspiracy theories about how Epstein died and claims that prominent Democrats and other well-known figures would be tied to the case. Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to state prostitution charges, ran in high-powered circles with figures that included Trump, former President Clinton, Britain's Prince Andrew and a number of other celebrities and ultrawealthy people. Epstein's associate, Ghislaine Maxwell, has been convicted of sex trafficking and was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
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How to Tell If Someone Is a Criminal (According to the DHS)
Confronted with the bald fact that, of the people in Florida's just-constructed swamp internment facility for the ' worst of the worst,' more than 250 had neither criminal convictions nor pending charges, the Department of Homeland Security was untroubled. 'Many of the individuals that are counted as 'non-criminals' are actually terrorists, human rights abusers, gangsters and more; they just don't have a rap sheet in the U.S.,' DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told the Miami Herald / Tampa Bay Times. 'Further, every single one of these individuals committed a crime when they came into this country illegally. It is not an accurate description to say they are 'non-criminals.'' Except for the fact that they have not technically committed any crimes, these are criminals. Except for the tiny, tiny, minuscule (I hate to even mention it) quibble that we have no evidence they've done any crimes, these people deserve to be locked up. Except for the minor, minor technicality that they haven't violated any laws, other than by arriving here—which might not even have violated a law! We have asylum, or used to, before we decided to pull the rug out from under thousands of people—these are the worst of the worst. The total lack of any evidence against them, except that Trump border czar Tom Homan thought they seemed suspicious, is just proof of what good criminals they are. Evidence, schmevidence! All you need to do is look at them, listen to them! (Homan has subsequently walked this back, or tried to.) You can simply tell when someone is a criminal, even when they keep trying to abide by the law, showing up for immigration hearings and paying taxes on time. Perhaps especially then. So many neighbors of serial killers say that the killers were quiet, kept to themselves, and seemed like productive members of their community. If these detainees' neighbors say the same, that's so much more proof that they are some of history's greatest monsters, or would be, if they ever took up crime. These would be hardened assassins if they had ever killed anyone. If they had done a single war crime, it would have been worse than those of Slobodan Milošević. The only reason these serial killers' names don't ring in the ear with the horror of Jeffrey Dahmer's and Ed Gein's is because they have not killed or eaten anyone. But we'd better keep them behind bars to be safe. They could start at any time! Indeed, all that stands between them and crime is means, motive, and opportunity. That's why it's good that in addition to the preemptive measure of putting some of these all-but-criminals behind bars, the DHS has also taken the extraordinarily un-racist precaution of collecting immigrant DNA into a large database for the ease and convenience of suspecting them of crimes. If these toddlers weren't criminals, would their DNA already be in this Usual Suspects Database? Unlikely. These are almost certainly terrorists, human-rights abusers, gangsters, and more! And some of them even have parking tickets. That's why they belong in a facility that we laughingly refer to as 'Alligator Alcatraz.' ('If there's alliteration, it's not a human-rights violation.') They are probably human-rights abusers, which is why we have locked them up without due process or any kind of publicly posted list to let anyone know their whereabouts. Remember, criminals are to be found around other criminals. ('I think we all know that criminals tend to hang out with criminals,' Deputy ICE Director Madison Sheahan noted.) And there they all are now, in a facility that we have insisted is for the worst of the worst. Sounds pretty dispositive. If they weren't the worst of the worst, what would they be doing there? You can tell they are human-rights abusers because they are sleeping on cots 32 to a room in a just-constructed internment camp. The human-rights abusers are the ones who have been seized by masked men because they looked or sounded a certain way. The human-rights abusers are the ones packed into cages in the oppressive heat. The human-rights abusers are the ones brushing their teeth with toilet water, unable to shower for days, crammed together in a mosquito-infested swamp, struggling to access lawyers. You can tell they are criminals because of the side of the fence they're on.
