Former President Donald Trump took the stage on Wednesday night to hear from Latino voters during a town hall hosted by Univision.
The event aired nearly a week after the Republican candidate’s Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris, took part in her own Univision town hall. Trump was originally scheduled to appear on the Spanish-language network last week, but delayed his town hall due to coverage of Hurricane Milton.
Wednesday night’s event was held in Doral, FL and was moderated by Enrique Acevedo, who provided the former president with an opportunity to engage undecided Latino voters and explain his hard stance on immigration and other issues that concern them.
One audience member, Jorge Velázquez, asked the former president about the tough jobs done by undocumented immigrants and who would do them if they were all deported.
📌 A Latino farmer asks Donald Trump who will do the hard jobs if he deports undocumented immigrants.
This is what Trump said at the Univision town hall #LosLatinosPreguntan.
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Another undecided voter, Ramiro González, asked Trump how he would win his vote back considering his actions surrounding the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
“Your own vice president doesn’t want to support you.” Voter confronts Trump right to his face on what a horrible president he was, including his inaction to stop the Jan 6 attack on the Capitol, and his botched handling of the COVID crisis. (Video: Univision) pic.twitter.com/gu257GLsxX
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During the town hall, the former president made additional false claims about Haitian migrants in Springfield, OH—a topic he brought up during ABC News’ presidential debate with Harris.
Asked by audience member José Saralegui whether he believed that “these people are eating the people’s pets,” Trump responded: “I was just saying what was reported that’s been reported and eating other things, too, that they’re not supposed to be.”