“They can dedicate all the money in the election to the Latino vote but how can they defend the offensive nature of the immigration debate, wanting to repeal Obamacare, and opposition to the earned income tax credit?” said Gabriela Domenzain, who ran Hispanic media for the Obama campaign in 2012.
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“Republicans are their own worst enemies.”
This is the earliest Republicans have launched a national Latino outreach effort, according to the RNC. And they’ve put an emphasis on repeating what worked in 2014, even if that midterm electorate was very different than most presidential ones. That starts with candidates willing to do the outreach.
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