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Mexico election: Leftist Amlo (Obrador) set for Historic Landslide Victory
Guardian ^ | 7-1-2018 | Tom Phillips David Agren

Posted on 07/01/2018 7:28:42 PM PDT by tcrlaf

Exit polls show baseball-loving nationalist who counts Jeremy Corbyn as a friend is set to become new president.

A baseball-loving left-wing nationalist who has vowed to crack down on corruption, rein in Mexico’s war on drugs and rule for the poor has been elected president of Latin America’s second-largest economy, exit polls suggested on Sunday night.

Andrés Manuel López Obrador, a silver-haired 64-year-old who is best known as Amlo and counts Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn among his friends, was set to be elected with 49% of the vote, according to a poll conducted by the El Financiero newspaper.

López Obrador’s closest rival, Ricardo Anaya from the National Action party (PAN), received 27%, the poll said, while José Antonio Meade, a career civil servant running for the Institutional Revolutionary party, or PRI, which ruled Mexico for most of last century, came in third with 18%

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona; US: California; US: Florida; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: amlo; arizona; buildthefence; buildthewall; california; communism; daca; dreamact; dreamers; election; florida; invasion; leftist; mexicanberniesanders; mexico; newmexico; newyork; texas; wall
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Here we go folks...

We either have a nation called America, or we don't. The next few weeks will tell the tale, I believe.

1 posted on 07/01/2018 7:28:42 PM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: tcrlaf

I’m glad he won.

Makes it easier to build the wall now.


2 posted on 07/01/2018 7:29:24 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: tcrlaf

The rest of Mexico’s population will be arriving in the USA shortly........


3 posted on 07/01/2018 7:31:23 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents__Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: tcrlaf

It is called the United States of America.


4 posted on 07/01/2018 7:32:18 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“The rest of Mexico’s population will be arriving in the USA shortly........”

According to the Democratic Party, it belongs to them anyway.


5 posted on 07/01/2018 7:32:30 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: dfwgator

Time to take a 1 mi. [or as needed] free fire zone on the south side of the border.


6 posted on 07/01/2018 7:32:34 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: tcrlaf

This it it! Trump’s poll numbers will tank now, I tell ya!


7 posted on 07/01/2018 7:32:49 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Democracy: The cliff's edge of Marxism)
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To: bankwalker

“It is called the United States of America.”

Not for much longer, quite possibly.


8 posted on 07/01/2018 7:33:07 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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9 posted on 07/01/2018 7:34:02 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: tcrlaf

It hasn’t been for some time.


10 posted on 07/01/2018 7:35:11 PM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Please Pray For My Brother Ken)
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To: tcrlaf

Here comes the wall. Anybody who thinks this clown can outsmart Trump is a fool.


11 posted on 07/01/2018 7:37:10 PM PDT by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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Here comes the wall. Anybody who thinks this clown can outsmart Trump is a fool.

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Right on both points.

This Mexican Marxist is going to for the wall what Obama did for gun sales and DJT knows it.


12 posted on 07/01/2018 7:40:04 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: jmaroneps37

People have no idea how much of a gift to us this clown is going to be.


13 posted on 07/01/2018 7:41:15 PM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: jmaroneps37

“Here comes the wall. Anybody who thinks this clown can outsmart Trump is a fool.”

An ‘Emergency Defensive Construction’ under the color National Defense?


14 posted on 07/01/2018 7:41:31 PM PDT by tcrlaf (They told me it could never happen in America. And then it did....)
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To: tcrlaf

Oh geez, lose the pessimism at least for now!

I’m no hero worshiper but DJT is the right man in the right place. If he can have Little Rocket Boy eating out of his hand, then Pres. Trump will lay down the law to AMLO.

If AMLO threatens to send a million Mexican surge against our border, Trump will reply, “Go ahead, make my day. You have just guaranteed my reelection!”


15 posted on 07/01/2018 7:41:50 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: tcrlaf

Build that wall pronto!


16 posted on 07/01/2018 7:41:58 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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“””If AMLO threatens to send a million Mexican surge against our border, Trump will reply, “Go ahead, make my day. You have just guaranteed my reelection!””””

Only if he stops them. If they come across the border the end will be hastened.


17 posted on 07/01/2018 7:45:56 PM PDT by raybbr (That progressive bumper sticker on your car might just as wll say, "Yes, I'm THAT stupid!")
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To: elcid1970

I think AMLO will evolve over time, and he may wind up actually being pals with Trump before it’s all over. People will say anything to get elected, then do an about face once they face the reality.

The status quo sure as Hell wasn’t working.


18 posted on 07/01/2018 7:46:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: tcrlaf

This is bad news for Mexico but great news for those who want real border security. I expect President Trump will be tweeting about this soon enough.


19 posted on 07/01/2018 7:47:31 PM PDT by Trumpnado2016 (Welcome to Trump World.)
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To: tcrlaf

the plan of the Democrats has always been to give California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to Mexico. It will divest the US of 2/3rds of it’s economy, and force the rest to give in to communism to survive. That will include slavery. Slavery is a Democrat institution.


20 posted on 07/01/2018 7:51:42 PM PDT by realcleanguy
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