Posted on 02/20/2016 7:17:58 AM PST by cotton1706
Conservative Hispanics are growing increasingly impatient with flailing GOP candidates who are refusing to drop out of the race, believing the time is now to coalesce around a contender who can beat Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
It's not a dynamic unique to the GOP Hispanic community, but the leaders are feeling a particular urgency to unite behind a candidate before the Nevada caucuses on Feb. 23. And they're banking on Saturday's South Carolina primary to force the issue.
"I think the bottom two need to quit regardless of who it is," Massey Villarreal, the former chairman of the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and head of the Republican Hispanic National Assembly told POLITICO.
He added that the fourth-place contender also "needs to do some soul searching."
South Carolina is especially seen as a do-or-die contest for Jeb Bush, who is polling fourth of the six GOP candidates still in the field. The former Florida governor, who once was seen as the "shock and awe" candidate, has been limping along for months after Trump wounded his campaign and Marco Rubio surged past him in the polls.
Villarreal had been backing Bush, but switched to Rubio in what he characterized as a pragmatic move.
"I wish that Jeb would be the nominee but the numbers aren't working in his favor," Villarreal said.
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Then they'll be forced to get behind loser Kasich.
If someone really had conservative followers, would those followers not go to Cruz or Trump?
The whipping fest going on between trump and cruz are unfortunate. If they were a bit more gracious toward each other in the end whom ever is # 1 and 2 join forces and crush everyone in thier path rat GOP and rat
Sounds like these “Conservative Hispanics” are Jeb or Rubio supporters. what they say can be safely ignored. By the way, despite the rhetoric, Trump has more support over Hispanic Republicans than Cruz and Rubio combined.
I agree.
I heard directly from Orrin Hatch’s chief of staff in 2011/2 that he didn’t pick Marco to run as VP because he didn’t poll well with Hispanics (even though Romney liked him.) I don’t think much has changed, although I’m sure his being on the gang of 8 and for amnesty was a way for him to get in their good favor.
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Which is the point I have been making to my GOP inclined peers; if stemming illegal immigration is important to you than Cruz and Trump are your only two candidates.
The Cheap Labor Express and their lackeys are getting very worried they may not get their amnesty candidate.
“Conservative Hispanics are growing increasingly impatient with flailing GOP candidates “
Translated:
You took our open border dinero, where’s the results? Trump is going to deport all of us.
Including these faux Hispanic conservatives, who are probably open border thugs dependent on exploiting illegals.
This has nothing to do with being conservative. It’s all about what the candidate can promise them. Neither Trump not Cruz has promised them anything so they want them out.
I’m waiting for the Pope to tell me who to vote for, and of course Obama saying which is the best GOP canidate would help me too. */sarcasm
There is no such thing as a quote, Hispanic race, unquote.It is a strawman invented by so called liberals. That term has been applied to those from individual South American countries some of which have governments hostile to US and actually claim parts of this country as theirs, and others which are friendly. They are composed of various races as we are, with the difference being their primary common language is Spanish.
People born here with latinized sur name are Americans of whatever country their forebearers came from descent.
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