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Posted: 3/10/2016 9:23:20 PM EDT

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Billionaire George Soros funds $15M effort to stop Trump, mobilize Latinos

Donald Trump often notes that he has plenty of millions to battle his way to the Oval Office.

But now another billionaire New Yorker is putting up his own millions to prevent Trump from winning the presidency and is calling on Latinos to be part of that effort.

Financier George Soros is launching, along with other donors, a $15 million campaign to achieve the largest Latino and immigrant participation at the polls, the New York Times reported.

Through a new super PAC named Immigrant Voters Win, the campaign is funding organizations in states such as Florida, Nevada and Colorado, which have large or growing Latino and Asian communities, in the hope of influencing turnout in November, the Times reported.

Trump shot to the front of the Republican presidential field last year by proposing a hard-line immigration policy. The Hungarian-born Soros is contributing $5 million of his own money to the campaign.

People involved in the effort told the Times that it is the largest Democratic-voter turnout effort campaign to target Latinos and immigrants. The goal is to have a minimum of 400,000 new voters by the general election in November.

“This is really taking the gloves off,” said Cristóbal Alex, the president of the Latino Victory Project, which is part of the campaign.

“From the first day
Trump, political experts generally agree, has turned the presidential race into one like no other in recent history. A billionaire who never has held political office, his candidacy was greeted with skepticism last year, with many considering his campaign a joke. Most analysts didn't give him much of a chance of winning the GOP nomination.

Instead Trump has cultivated a strong and, until now, loyal group of supporters who have gone to the primaries in large numbers. Televised GOP debate ratings have been high, something many experts attribute to the novelty of Trump’s brash and unpredictable style. He consistently has ended up in the top slot of national polls of GOP voters and has won more primaries and caucuses than any of his GOP rivals.

Democratic voters, by contrast, seem far less enthusiastic, worrying many who want to stop Trump’s march to the White House. Democratic debates, now including just former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, have drawn much smaller audiences than the GOP ones, and Democratic primaries and caucuses also have had lower turnouts than their GOP counterparts.

Conservatives, to be sure, are hardly sitting by idly as Soros and Co. begin their Latino outreach.

Libre Initiative, which is in large part funded by the Koch brothers, reportedly is spending some $10 million to mobilize Latino turnout. The organization’s approach is to have a grassroots presence in states where Latinos live in large numbers or where there is a fast-growing community.

The group promotes conservative principles while providing help to people obtaining driver's licenses or preparing for GED exams, among other things.

Trump wasted no time in laying out his hard-line immigration proposals. When he announced he was running for president, he condemned Mexico for dumping its worst citizens, as he put it, on the U.S. He vowed to build a wall along the border and to have a kind of deportation army that would track down and remove the estimated 11 million undocumented people living in the United States.

Soros told the Times in an email that he had been rattled by what he viewed as the xenophobic tone of the Republicans running for president. He was upset by the call by Trump and others to ban Muslim refugees from the United States.

Soros has a long history of contributing millions to liberal political causes, and pockets don't get much deeper than his. He ranked No. 23 in the latest Forbes richest men list.

He told the Times, “The intense anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim rhetoric that has been fueled by the Republican primary is ... harmful to our democracy and to our national interests,” Soros said. “There should be consequences for the outrageous statements and proposals that we’ve regularly heard.”

The Times said participants in the new campaign are responding to criticism by Latinos about the lack of financial support from wealthy liberals.

“One reason we had lower turnout is because of historical underinvestment in our community,” Alex said to the Times. “Folks who want a progressive vision of the country have to match what is happening on the right. Now we are seeing a recognition by certain donors of the importance of our vote.”

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:24:34 PM EDT

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I thought that Trump was the only R that can't beat Hillary?

Something's fucky!

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:26:41 PM EDT

[#2]

Last piece of the puzzle. They are real worried!

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:28:02 PM EDT

[#3]

So much for Trump can not beat Hillary . This guy has $15 million that says otherwise. Trump scares both parties

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:30:05 PM EDT

[#4]

Battle of the big wigs :)

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:30:44 PM EDT

[#5]

Yes another reason to vote for Trump.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:32:16 PM EDT

[#6]

People getting paranoid makes me paranoid of paranoid people.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:32:51 PM EDT

[#7]

Best endorsement ever for DT.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:34:24 PM EDT

[#8]

If you hate Trump you're a commie!

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:34:34 PM EDT

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A lot of things with this election are fucky.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:35:18 PM EDT

[#10]

Unpossible. Lies! Everybody knows the only rich people who get their hands in politics are the Koch Brothers.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:35:20 PM EDT

[#11]

That's a waste. The Latinos aren't going to vote for Trump anyway.

That's like Hitlery spending millions to get the Black vote.

TC

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:35:58 PM EDT

[#12]

That only makes me wantvto vote for the game show host

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:37:01 PM EDT

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That's a waste. The Latinos aren't going to vote for Trump anyway.

That's like Hitlery spending millions to get the Black vote.

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My Latino wife and family disagree

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:37:26 PM EDT

[#14]

Wonder if him and his buddies will spend $15M on opening the borders in Isreal?

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:39:43 PM EDT

[#15]

Trump's got all the right enemies.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:39:55 PM EDT

[#16]

Well, there ya go. Now I'm a Trump supporter.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:40:06 PM EDT

[#17]

Now we know why pays the shills...

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:40:21 PM EDT

[#18]

If he's only spending 15M he's not that worried about stopping anyone.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:41:12 PM EDT

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You can tell a lot more about a man by his enemies, than his friends.

A man may have a friend simply because he's polite to them.

But if a man has an enemy, it means he has either stood against them, or his existence threatens them.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:41:19 PM EDT

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This.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:43:26 PM EDT

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Best endorsement ever for DT.

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This!
Soros is one of those guys who wants to win at all costs.

Ask the Thai people how they feel about him.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:45:05 PM EDT

[#22]

Trump should spend 30 million to stop Soros.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:45:31 PM EDT

[#23]

Soros is POS obama supporter.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:46:29 PM EDT

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And this should be reason alone to vote for Trump

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:47:06 PM EDT

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I am sitting here squirting bourbon out of my nose.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:48:52 PM EDT

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Exactly. You would have to be high as a motherfucker to not vote Trump after this. Soros is one of the biggest fucks on the planet. This solidifies my support for Trump exponentially.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:49:09 PM EDT

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Well, there ya go. Now I'm a Trump supporter.

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Same.

The ROPe hates him
the Media hates him
Soros hates him

but I repeat myself

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:50:05 PM EDT

[#28]

FGS

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:50:05 PM EDT

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I thought that Trump was the only R that can't beat Hillary? Something's fucky!

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Trump can't beat Hillary!

Or can he.

I voted Cruz but I'll vote Trump if he's the nominee.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:50:25 PM EDT

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If he's only spending 15M he's not that worried about stopping anyone.

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Yeah. Soros is 85 years old and is worth $23 billion. What is he saving the other $22,485,000,000 for lol?

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:51:56 PM EDT

[#31]

Damn.....how old is that fucker

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:52:14 PM EDT

[#32]

Didn't trumps opposition spend way more then that and failed miserably

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:52:47 PM EDT

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You can tell a lot more about a man by his enemies, than his friends.

A man may have a friend simply because he's polite to them.

But if a man has an enemy, it means he has either stood against them, or his existence threatens them.

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Trump's got all the right enemies.

You can tell a lot more about a man by his enemies, than his friends.

A man may have a friend simply because he's polite to them.

But if a man has an enemy, it means he has either stood against them, or his existence threatens them.

You may as well post the Churchill quote.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:53:42 PM EDT

[#34]

I am not really a religious type, but IF there was a terrestrial, living embodiment of EVIL....

Soros would be SATAN

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:54:33 PM EDT

[#35]

Soros is looking more and more like a zombie.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:57:11 PM EDT

[#36]

I hope he immigrates to the river Styx soon.

Posted: 3/10/2016 9:58:55 PM EDT

[#37]

That globalist fuck can't die soon enough.

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:00:04 PM EDT

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My Latino wife and family disagree

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That's a waste. The Latinos aren't going to vote for Trump anyway.

That's like Hitlery spending millions to get the Black vote.

TC

My Latino wife and family disagree

The majority of my "Latino" family is considering Trump, they've usually been a 50/50 split in terms of Democrat & Republican.

As for the article, it sounds like Bernie has a billionaire backing him now, in a way. Clinton already had it.

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:00:52 PM EDT

[#39]

I hope that money gets pissed away and Soros gets ball cancer.

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:01:06 PM EDT

[#40]

a whole 15 million , big deal

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:01:18 PM EDT

[#41]

#NewYorkValues vs #NewYorkValues?!

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:03:39 PM EDT

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George Soros isn't from New York.

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:04:34 PM EDT

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Research these two. They have been hanging out since at least 2001. In 2009 Soros funded 160 million for Trump Tower. When did they have a falling out?

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:05:05 PM EDT

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I love the Trump hate. Yesterday, 2 girls in my class broke down, started crying and saying that they would rather die than see Trump become president. The professor got up and hugged them abs the rest of the class comforted them. I was in the back laughing so hard my sides hurt.

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:05:20 PM EDT

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George Soros isn't from New York.

Nazi Germany

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:05:47 PM EDT

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You never judge a man by his friends, you judge a man by his enemies.

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:05:49 PM EDT

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Same.

The ROPe hates him
the Media hates him
Soros hates him...

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Well, there ya go. Now I'm a Trump supporter.

Same.

The ROPe hates him
the Media hates him
Soros hates him...

So far so good. Just racking up the collection of worthless groups and people.

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:06:30 PM EDT

[#48]

Unlike Trump, Soros is a self-made man.

Posted: 3/10/2016 10:06:52 PM EDT

[#49]

That evil POS needs to hurry up and croak. We also need election reform something fierce- the amount of money spent on elections shows just how croaked our political system is.