Geraldo Rivera: Latino Vote Could Flatten Trump

Donald Trump's alienation of Latino voters will likely cost him in the presidential election, says Fox News correspondent personality Geraldo Rivera.

Rivera has been a friend of Trump's for nearly 40 years but publicly stated he would not vote for the Republican nominee because of a disagreement with his proposed immigration policy, which would target at least 5 million immigrants for quick removal from the United States.

If as I suspect based on reviewing most available polls @realDonaldTrump gets an historic low of less than 20% of Latino vote, he will lose.

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 7, 2016

Remember 'bad hombre'? In Nevada, Florida, Arizona, NC, etc lots of good Latino Hombres y Mujeres are remembering to vote.

— Geraldo Rivera (@GeraldoRivera) November 7, 2016

"There's one thing I cannot get past. I can't get past his pledge that, if elected, he's going to deport all 11 million undocumented immigrants, even if they have been living otherwise law-abiding lives, even if it's at the cost of breaking up families with citizen children," Rivera said in early August. "He's going to deport them all, and the citizen children."

Early voting data shows an uptick in Hispanic votes for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in Nevada and Florida according to news reports. Hispanic turnout in Florida has already exceeded Hispanic early voting in the 2012 election cycle by 170,000 ballots, according to Politico, which also reports a strong Hispanic surge in Texas and Arizona.

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