Many presidential candidates have labeled President Trump a “white supremacist”, but these voices have grown after the El Paso shooting which specifically targeted Latinos. His anti-immigrant rhetoric may be inciting racists given how the El Paso’s shooter released a hate-filled manifesto that closely mirrored Trump’s language. 

"We have not seen a credible major party candidate, let alone a sitting president of the United States, appeal to race in such an explicit way in over a century," University of California Riverside political science professor Dr. Karthick Ramakrishnan. “We’re in new territory here in terms of how a sitting president and presidential candidates have used race in explicit ways to polarize and galvanize. The fact that he’s now making it a key part of his campaign, where not only is he tweeting about it, but it's coming up in rallies. That’s changed the dynamic-and these [Democratic] candidates are calling him out on it because of what he’s introduced”

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