Protesters march outside Donald Trump rally in Fresno as farmers head inside
Protesters march outside Donald Trump rally in Fresno as farmers head inside
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8:05 A.M. DON LEEhttp://www.trbimg.com/img-534f34bc/t...ee/400/400x400
Why corporate America is having a hard time jumping on the Trump train
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Even as the GOP establishment and leading conservative groups are starting to warm to Donald Trump, a large and important segment of the Republican base has been conspicuously quiet: corporate America.
Wall Street and the nation's business community have historically been dependable backers of the Republican Party, whose core values of reducing taxes and government regulation are most closely aligned with their own pro-business growth priorities.
This election year, the choice should be particularly easy between Trump, a lifelong businessman, and a Democratic Party that has been pushed by Sen. Bernie Sanders to adopt an unusually harsh anti-business tone, calling for the breakup of big banks and sharp tax increases for the wealthy.
Yet with the exception of a relatively small number of corporate leaders, such as oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens and casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, the business world, by and large, has been laying low, unwilling to associate publicly with a man whose highly contentious positions and freewheeling talk have raised concerns among a lot of ordinary Americans.
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6:30 A.M.REPORTING FROM VENTURA CATHLEEN DECKERhttp://www.trbimg.com/img-536088d1/t...er/400/400x400
Analysis: Why Bernie Sanders keeps popping up in California's out-of-the-way places
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All week Bernie Sanders has galloped about California, showing up in places where presidential candidates usually don’t tread.
On Sunday he was in Vista. On Tuesday he hit Riverside and San Bernardino. On Wednesday he was in Cathedral City and Lancaster. On Thursday, Ventura. On Saturday, he’ll be in Santa Maria.
His Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, has stuck more to the traditional power centers for Democrats, visiting the Los Angeles area, Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Although she, too, meandered to the Inland Empire and Salinas this week.
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6:29 A.M. KATE LINTHICUMhttp://www.trbimg.com/img-53604d8f/t...um/400/400x400
Meet the Chinese American immigrants who are supporting Donald Trump
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Ling Zeng got celebrity treatment at this week’s Donald Trump rally in Anaheim.
One after another, dozens of Trump supporters approached to snap pictures of Zeng and her friends, who wore matching T-shirts that read:
“Chinese Americans love Trump.”
After a campaign staffer invited the group to stand directly behind Trump's podium, the candidate took note.
"Look at this, Chinese Americans!" Trump bellowed as he shook Zeng's hand.
T-shirts notwithstanding, most Chinese Americans don't love Trump. Polls show that they, like Asian Americans more broadly, overwhelmingly disapprove of the brash businessman and presumptive Republican nominee, who has targeted illegal immigration, proposed a ban on Muslims, and frequently criticized China for stealing jobs from U.S. workers.
Still, there is a small but vocal group of Chinese Americans who passionately support the candidate, brushing aside criticism from some Democrats that his rhetoric is racist. And while their numbers are slight, they represent significant trends in some parts of the Chinese immigrant population.
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6:27 A.M. MICHAEL FINNEGANhttp://www.trbimg.com/img-53606c62/t...an/400/400x400
Trump clinches GOP nomination and vows to back out of global warming pact
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Hours after effectively clinching the Republican presidential nomination, Donald Trump vowed Thursday to withdraw the United States from the historic Paris agreement among 195 nations to cut greenhouse gas emissions in an effort to stop global warming.
Trump, who has often dismissed the science on climate change as a hoax that threatens American jobs, promised to cut all U.S. spending on United Nations programs on global warming.
Speaking at an oil and gas industry conference in Bismarck, N.D., he laid out an energy agenda that would rely heavily on fossil fuels and rescind Obama administration regulations aimed at addressing climate change.
“In a Trump administration, political activists with extreme agendas will no longer write the rules, because that’s what’s happening now,” Trump said.
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6:26 A.M. KATE LINTHICUMhttp://www.trbimg.com/img-53604d8f/t...um/400/400x400
As the campaign nears the end, Bernie Sanders talks about his mission and goals
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Sen. Bernie Sanders sat down with Times reporter Kate Linthicum for a brief interview this week. Read what he had to say about persuading superdelegates to back him, whether he's having fun and more.
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L.A. Times Amazed to Find Latinos Who Support Trump
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by JOEL B. POLLAK
29 May 2016
Los Angeles Times columnist Robin Abcarian visited the Donald Trump rally in Fresno last Friday, and reported that she found Latinos who actually support the Republican candidate.
Who were these people, exactly, who could vote for a man who has called Mexicans rapists and murderers, who insulted the Republican Latina governor of New Mexico, who tweeted “I love Hispanics” as he ate a taco bowl at his desk on Cinco de Mayo?
It turns out that many of them are American citizens or legal immigrants who care about the country’s borders, and share the same views as fellow conservatives Republicans on a variety of issues.
His rhetoric about Mexicans doesn’t bother you, I asked?
“It’s about illegal aliens!” Jennings said. “Mom and I can’t go to Canada and just squat and get benefits. We couldn’t go to Mexico either without the proper paperwork. They’d put us in jail!”
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“I’m Mexican,” Aderhold said, “and I understand that Mexicans do the farm labor, but there are a lot of legal ones. That’s how they should do it, the way my parents did.”
Naturally, Abcarian let her own skepticism poke through: “In that case, good luck in a Trump administration to all the lettuce growers in Salinas. They can’t find enough people to pick their crops even now.”
For a more conventional view, Abcarian spoke to protesters outside the arena:
Outside the arena, it was easy to find Latinos who take a far dimmer view of Trump. Polls, after all, show that he is viewed negatively by a yuuuuge majority of Latino voters.
Practically the first person I bumped into was Daniel Ortiz, a 66-year-old retired truck driver from Selma.
He carried a homemade sign featuring a photo of Trump altered to look like Adolf Hitler. It said, “FU … Trump” and “Anything can happen if you don’t vote.”
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