Trump's doing so well with Latinos, why do outreach? Surprise, surprise—that was Trump’s approach to Spanish language media last week in Cleveland, reports Michael Calderone:
Since getting out of Cleveland, Univision is suddenly getting its calls returned. “It’s night and day,” Lourdes Torres, senior vice president politics and special projects for Univision News, said of the shift from the Republican National Convention to the Democratic event now underway in Pennsylvania.
During the GOP convention in Ohio last week, Torres said, Univision wasn’t able to secure interviews with top convention speakers. Its attempts to reach the Donald Trump campaign went into a “black hole.” By comparison, Torres said, Univision executives met privately Monday with a top Hillary Clinton official, and campaign manager Robby Mook has been interviewed on the network.
Univision and Telemundo also landed the first solo interviews with Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Clinton’s running mate. Both interviews were conducted in Spanish and aired as the convention kicked off Monday.
Nice. Really nice. As a former constituency reporter, I can tell you those interviews are often hard to come by and they mean a lot—both to the constituency and the reporter.
Team Clinton reportedly has about two dozen spokespeople on the ground in Philly doing interviews, outreach, and translations in Spanish, while Trump didn't have a single dedicated staffer.