Trump faces stiff opposition from Hispanic Republicans

Donald Trump's efforts to win over Hispanic Republicans are failing.

Prominent Hispanic GOP activists tell the Washington Examinerthey cannot support him and they're going to sit out the general election.

Trump says he loves "the Hispanics" and last week he tweeted a controversial picture of himself tucking into a taco bowl on Cinco de Mayo. If he hoped to improve his image with Hispanic Republicans, the effort seems to have come up short.

Hispanic Republicans are a tiny segment of the party, but are loyal and usually highly active. Every election for decades they've toiled to convince fellow Hispanics, who are mostly liberal Democrats, to give the Republican Party and conservatism a shot.

Four years ago, Hispanic GOP operatives backed Mitt Romney despite his rejection of liberal immigration reforms and his controversial support of "self-deportation" to cut the population of illegal immigrants.