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Latinos shred Hillary Clinton over 'abuela' pandering fail

The latest effort to appeal to Latino voters has backfired on her campaign.

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Hillary Clinton's latest effort to appeal to Latino voters has backfired on her campaign — painfully so, we might add.

A recent blog post on her website, originally titled "7 ways Hillary Clinton is just like your abuela," touts the presidential candidate's grandmotherly qualities in a clear attempt to impress would-be Latino supporters. 

But Latinos on Twitter immediately criticized the post as tone-deaf pandering, and fired back with reasons Clinton is #NotMyAbuela.

While responding to totally different offenses, the Latino backlash here is similar to the way African Americans responded to the Rachel Dolezal fiasco earlier this year.  Dolezal, the former president of the NAACP in Spokane, claimed to be African American — going as far as to allege discrimination and hate crimes based on her race — when she is, in fact, of German and Czech ancestry. Of course, Clinton isn't trying to assume some cross-ethnic identity. She's just pandering. Or "hispandering," if you will.

The Clinton campaign has not issued a formal response, but the title of the blog post has been changed to "7 things Hillary Clinton has in common with your abuela." 

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