ELECTION/GOP/IMMIGRATION/MINORITIES/RACISM/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “President Trump’s efforts to whip up fear around immigration in the closing days of the midterm cycle may have helped some Republicans clinch wins around the country. But in places like the diverse Denver suburbs, it had the opposite effect. ‘We are part of this country,’ said Saad Salim, who fled Iraq with his family in 2005 and voted against Mike Coffman, a Republican congressman representing a swing district where nearly one in five residents is foreign-born. Mr. Coffman had built ties to immigrant communities and tried to distance himself from Mr. Trump’s immigration policies, but on Election Day, immigrants in his district from El Salvador, Ghana, Burkina Faso and beyond said they wanted to send a message about those policies by voting against Republicans. Mr. Coffman, who had survived a number of Democratic challenges before, lost to his opponent, Jason Crow, by nine points.”
–Jack Healy and Caitlin Dickerson, “Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric Rallied the Base. But It Also Backfired,” The New York Times online, November 9, 2018