Whit Ayres’s comments on Latino voters in the 2012 election:
In addition to the support gap, Republicans face challenges in their messaging to Hispanic voters. At a breakfast meeting with reporters last month, veteran GOP pollster Whit Ayers said the tone of the immigration debate has hurt the party and cautioned that eventual nominee will have to do a better job of embracing the concerns of this group. That nominee is likely to be Mitt Romney, who has espoused self-deportation as an immigration policy and has pledged to veto the DREAM Act (which would provide citizenship to children of illegal immigrants if they serve in the military or go to college) in its current form. Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, a young Cuban-American often discussed as a possible vice presidential candidate, has crafted his own version.
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