Clinton campaign dismisses Trump's Mexico trip

Hillary Clinton's team is unimpressed by Donald Trump's trip to Mexico to meet with President Enrique Peña Nieto, citing the Republican candidate's record of inflammatory statements about the U.S.'s southern neighbor, Politico reports.
"From the first days of his campaign, Donald Trump has painted Mexicans as 'rapists' and criminals and has promised to deport 16 million people, including children and U.S. citizens. He has said we should force Mexico to pay for his giant border wall. He has said we should ban remittances to families in Mexico if Mexico doesn't pay up," Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said in a statement.
"What ultimately matters is what Donald Trump says to voters in Arizona [during his immigration speech], not Mexico, and whether he remains committed to the splitting up of families and deportation of millions," she added.
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The battleground states of Florida, Colorado, and Nevada have large Hispanic and Latino populations, and Trump needs to make gains with such groups if he wants to win the electoral college votes. In his campaign kickoff speech last year, Trump even conceded that "some [Mexicans], I assume, are good people."
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