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Are you surprised by this? I am not surprised in the least.
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Rubio, they said, has embraced his ethnic identity in a way that Cruz, who speaks little Spanish, has not or will not.
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“At times, Senator Cruz finds it difficult to identify or engage with his Latino heritage,” said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, a key conservative group that Bush addressed in April.
"He does not elevate or magnify his Latino voice in the same way Marco Rubio does."
This little bit pretty much sums it up. Rafael Edward Cruz the son of Cuban immigrants has basically covered up his Hispanicness in order to make himself out to be Ted Cruz the White Southern Baptist right wing populist. I don't even think Ted will publicly speak Spanish for fear of upsetting his backers. In other words he is seen as a sellout.
Of course the fact that he tells his fellow Hispanics that he wants to deport half their family isent helping matters much either.
We, the GOP, need to become more flexible in terms of social issues and our other 'entrenched' positions on issues like immigration.
He's not catching fire with Latinos because 1. He isn't a socialist Democrat and 2. He apparently opposes amnesty for their illegal amigos and rightly so! No ethnic group is above those laws and shouldn't be rewarded for breaking them especially when it negatively impacts our own citizens.
)Latinos likely haven't made up their minds about Republican Sen. Ted Cruz's newly announced candidacy for President.
So in a selfless gesture, a whole slew of non-Latinos have quickly stepped forward to spare us the trouble of thinking for ourselves about whether Cruz stands a chance of winning and whether he can get the votes of fellow Latinos.
The answers were "No" and "No."
IIRC Cruz received about 40% of the Hispanic vote in his Senate bid. That is not great, but a Republican who can win just 40% of the Hispanic vote is probably destined to win his election.
IIRC Cruz received about 40% of the Hispanic vote in his Senate bid. That is not great, but a Republican who can win just 40% of the Hispanic vote is probably destined to win his election.
Yup.
Nobody is catching fire on the Republican side yet. Too early, and sooner or later one of them will figure out a way to differentiate him/herself and pull away from the ever-growing pack of now evenly-split prospectives.
We, the GOP, need to become more flexible in terms of social issues and our other 'entrenched' positions on issues like immigration.
...because providing amnesty and a path to citizenship for millions of future Democratic voters will help the Republican Party.
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