HISPANICS FOR TRUMP – AT 9:35 A.M. ET:  Is it possible that Donald Trump is getting some support in Florida?  Well, maybe.  From the Tampa Bay Times: 

HIALEAH — Cuban-Americans here have the rare opportunity to vote for two of their own for the presidency of the United States. Yet, some are making a different choice: They're backing Donald Trump.

The controversial frontrunner has insisted he'll draw Hispanic voters despite launching his campaign last June with inflammatory remarks about Mexicans and rapists. And as he competes in Florida, the biggest state yet to test his boast, there is anecdotal evidence of support among Miami-Dade's staunchly Republican Cuban-American voters even as most back Marco Rubio, the son of Cuban immigrants, whom many Cuban-American voters helped elect to the U.S. Senate in 2010.

For Trump backers, ethnicity plays no factor.

"I don't think Cuban, I think American," said former Hialeah Mayor Julio Martinez, who, for two weeks, has held a Trump campaign sign outside an early voting site just blocks from where Rubio last week implored Hispanics to vote for him in Tuesday's presidential primary.

Perched in a lawn chair outside the John F. Kennedy Library, holding a "The Silent Majority Stands with Trump" sign, Martinez said he was backing Trump because there was "nobody better suited" to fixing the economy.

"The worst problem the United States has today is the economy," he said.

Trump's pledge to force Mexico to pay for construction of a wall at the U.S. border and his call to deport the nation's estimated 11 million immigrants who are here illegally have infuriated Hispanic advocacy groups and led to heated protests at his rallies. But for backers, they play no role. Even Trump's support for closer ties with Cuba's government makes no waves.

COMMENT:  It's very hard to know how far this goes.  Most polls show Trump extremely unpopular among Hispanics.  There have been stories that Trump is making inroads among blacks, but polls don't really bear that out.

I'm noticing, by the way, some support for Trump on the far right, not the conservative right, but the far right.  The people who think Iran is just fine.  I am not a Trump supporter, and I find the weirdness of the campaign thus far a danger, not an asset.  Clarity and clear definitions of policy are what I look for, and we're not getting them.  I still maintain that a good chunk of the Trump vote, possibly a majority, is an anger vote, a protest vote, with little coherence.

March 14,   2016