There are some places that the clown car just won’t go.

The nation’s largest Latino advocacy group says it invited every presidential candidate to annual convention next week. Not a single Republican plans to attend, a spokesman said…

…The GOP absence from the La Raza conference comes at a time when the Republican field is struggling to respond to incendiary comments from candidate Donald Trump, who charged that Mexican immigrants are “bringing drugs, bringing crime, they’re rapists.”

Ever since Hispanic voters helped re-elect President Barack Obama in 2012, the Republican Party has been working to improve its image with Hispanic voters. But presidential candidates are also trying to appeal to the many Republican primary voters who oppose liberalized immigration policy.