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GOP presidential hopeful Donald Trump remains slated to host this week’s “Saturday Night Live” after the show’s parent company disregarded a campaign by immigrant rights groups and Latino politicians based on the billionaire’s anti-immigrant comments.
The invitation to Trump draws “SNL,” the four-decade-old pop culture fixture, into a controversy that has long dogged the Republican Party: How to harness the enthusiasm generated by the GOP’s nativist elements without alienating Latinos and other minority groups often turned off by hard-line rhetoric.
There’s no doubt that Trump attracts eyeballs. Since hitting the campaign trail, he has blurted out controversial statements that have been enthusiastically embraced by many among the GOP’s conservative core. But those comments have been reviled by Latinos and viewed with dismay by the Republican establishment that hopes to diversify the party. Most memorably, he painted Mexican immigrants in broad strokes as “rapists” who are “bringing crime” and “bringing drugs” to the United States.
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