Politico
By Gabriel Debenedetti
July 13, 2015
Martin
O’Malley lashed out at Donald Trump while speaking to a crowd of
influential Latino activists here on Monday afternoon, calling the real
estate mogul and Republican
presidential hopeful a “hate-spewing character” who “should go back to
the 1840s and run for the nomination of the Know Nothing Party.”
Appearing
at the annual conference of the National Council of La Raza, the former
Maryland governor and current Democratic presidential candidate carried
on at length
about Trump, while tying his rhetoric on illegal immigration to that of
the Republican Party at large.
“The
real problem isn’t that the Republicans have such a hate-spewing
character running for president,” said O’Malley. “The problem is that
it’s so hard to tell him apart
from the other candidates.”
The
former Baltimore mayor spent much of his speech recounting his own
accomplishments on immigration reform within Maryland, but his
broadsides against Trump — who is
surging in Republican polls — garnered the loudest applause.
O’Malley
wasn’t the first Democratic presidential contender to weigh in on
Trump’s now-infamous statement that Mexican immigrants are “bringing
drugs, they’re bringing
crime, they’re rapists” on Monday: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, who
leads O’Malley in national and early-state polling, also weighed in.
“For
a major candidate for president of the United States to be throwing
slurs at one group of people because of the country that they came from
is totally unacceptable,
period,” Sanders told reporters after his own speech at the Kansas City
Convention Center earlier in the day.
The party’s front-runner, Hillary Clinton, is scheduled to deliver her own remarks later this afternoon.
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