U.S. Presidential Election Series: Trump’s Wall stands in his own way to nomination

One of the key cornerstone of Donald Trump’s policy has been “The Wall”. You may like it or hate it but can’t just ignore the idea. Mr. Trump has promised that he will be building a wall along Mexico border to prevent illegal immigration to United States and he insists that Mexico will be paying for it.

Whether Mexico pays for it or not, whether Mr. Trump gets to the White House or not, time will tell, but he can expect his own big wall standing in his way to become President.

Reason is simple. Hispanic backlash.

For example, let’s take California, which goes to primary on June 7th and has 172 delegates to offer and there winner will take all the delegates. To add Mr. Trump’s pain, in California, in 2014, number of Hispanics have outnumbered Whites.

History shows, Hispanics don’t take deportation well. In Presidential election of 2012, Republican runner Mitt Romney, urged the Hispanics to self-deport and he received just 27% of Hispanic votes, which made a difference and put Obama back in the White House. Nationally, more than 16% of U.S. population are from Hispanic origin.

It’s not just California, some of the other primaries won’t be easy for him as well.

• Connecticut, which goes to primary today, has 13.4% Hispanic population. Rhode Island has 12.4%.
• Washington, which goes to vote on May 24th has about 11% Hispanic population. Same with Oregon, which goes to vote on May 17th.
• New Mexico will be almost impossible for Mr. Trump, with 46% voters from Hispanic origin. He can also run into trouble in New Jersey, where 17% are Hispanic.

Until he finds out, how to climb up his own wall, his campaign runs a major risk, even if he gets the nomination.