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Saturday, June 4, 2016

If The Congress Would Have Been Doing Its Business, We Would Not Have Seen The Rise Of Trump Or Sanders

Mitch McConnell on Trump's Rhetoric: 'I Wish He Would Discontinue It'

By Todd Beamon | Friday, 03 Jun 2016 08:16 PM

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Newsmax TV on Friday that "I worry about Donald Trump's rhetoric" — and that his comments could turn off Hispanic voters like Barry Goldwater's opposition to the 1964 Civil Rights Act did to African Americans.

"It eliminated the possibility of Republicans speaking to African American voters, and that's persisted for a long time," McConnell, a six-term Kentucky Republican, told "Newsmax Prime" host J.D. Hayworth in an exclusive interview.

McConnell, 74, is the author of the new book, "The Long Game: A Memoir." He also will be interviewed Monday on Newsmax TV's "The Steve Malzberg Show."

"Goldwater had many good qualities," said McConnell, who is pictured with the former Arizona senator in his memoir. He was 89 when he died in 1998.

"I was a great admirer of his, but I think that decision was a defining moment in terms of the Republican Party and its ability to appeal to African-American voters.

"I don't want to see that happen to Hispanic Americans."

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President George W. Bush took 44 percent of the Hispanic vote 10 years ago, McConnell told Hayworth. In the 2012 election, only 27 percent of Latinos voted for Mitt Romney.

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"I worry about Donald Trump's rhetoric. I wish he would discontinue it."

The majority leader noted Trump's slam last week of New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, the nation's only Hispanic female governor and head of the Republican Governors Association.

The attack "struck me as really quite odd, because we know Donald's going to be the nominee now," McConnell said. "I support him, he won it the old-fashioned way, he got more votes than anybody else.

"But this is the time to be bringing Republicans together and getting unified in order to go into the general election to beat Hillary Clinton."

Because neither Trump nor Clinton have strong likeable ratings among voters, the November election will be all about politics, McConnell told Hayworth.

"Do the American people want four more years just like the last eight? America's been underperforming now for eight long years.

"This is the worst recovery after a deep recession since World War II," He added, referring to reports Friday that the nation's workforce grew by an anemic 38,000 jobs in May — the worst in more than five years. "It's been the history in America.

"President [Barack] Obama's not had one quarter, not one, of 3 percent growth. Record numbers of people on food stamps.

"Americans are struggling. That's why they're so angry," McConnell told Newsmax. "You see that on the left with the Bernie Sanders brigades — and certainly that fed the rise of Donald Trump."

Friday, June 3, 2016

McConnell Who Is Responsible For Republican Voter Dissatisfaction Now Laments Trump Whose Ascendancy Is A Direct Response To The Poor Job That McConnell And Boehner Have Done. Maybe If He Had Done A Better Job, Trump Would Not Have Had Platform.

Mitch McConnell: I Fear a 'Goldwater' Scale Loss with Trump

By Todd Beamon | Thursday, 02 Jun 2016 06:50 PM

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Senate Majority Mitch McConnell fears Donald Trump could so alienate Latino voters that the GOP could see a Barry Goldwater-scale loss in November.

McConnell's new book is "The Long Game: A Memoir."

McConnell's book includes a picture with 1964 GOP presidential candidate Goldwater. He said that he eventually did not vote for Goldwater because he did not support the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which was signed by Democratic President Lyndon Johnson.

"There were a lot of other virtues — and in many ways I hated what happened in Johnson's second term, but it did define our party for at least African-American voters," McConnell told CNN's Jake Tapper Thursday. "We've never been able to get them back.

"I think it was a defining moment for Republicans going back to the Civil War."

Monday, September 15, 2014

Does One Have To Have A Latino Heart To Be Latino Or Does Their Latino Surname Qualify Them By Itself?

NM Gov.'s Challenger Won't Back Off 'Latino Heart' Remark

Thursday, 11 Sep 2014 12:34 PM

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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez's Democrat opponent, Gary King, is not apologizing for remarking that she "does not have a Latino heart," saying he was using a quote from a labor activist to point out that he does not believe Martinez shares the values of the state's Hispanic families.

The Republican Governors Association is demanding an apology from King for his statements made over the weekend at a Democratic fundraiser, reports USA Today.

At the event, King, who is the state's attorney general and the son of a former governor, is overheard on video obtained by The Weekly Standard complaining about the governor.

King said he was referring to labor activist Dolores Huerta, 84, who co-founded the United Farm Workers, when he said "she said you can’t go there and just vote for somebody for governor because they have a Latino surname … She said you have to look at them and find out if they have a Latino heart. And we know that Susana Martinez does not have a Latino heart."

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King told Albuquerque CBS affiliate KRQE-TV that he was simply quoting from Huerta's comments made at a Voices for Children conference earlier this year, but he believes that the statement "points out in an important way that Gov. Martinez does not share the same value system as most New Mexico Hispanic families do, such as increasing the wage and supporting our professional educators in the teaching of our children."

Martinez, who is the nation's first Hispanic female governor, told KRQE that she would not call King "a racist or anything," but still, "you cannot lump a group of people together simply because of the color of their skin."

According to national surveys, Martinez is leading King by an average of 5.3 percentage points, according to RealClearPolitics, and supporters told KRQE that King's statements were obviously made in an attempt to attract Hispanic voters.

Thirty-eight percent of the state's Hispanic voters chose Martinez in her 2010 race against Diane Denish. Gabe Sanchez, a political science professor at the University of New Mexico, told KRQE that King is "thinking if I get 5 or 10 percent of that, it's a whole new race."

But he thinks King's remarks will backfire, like when Denish tried to paint Martinez as a"tejana," or a Texan with a Hispanic heritage, in 2010. Martinez was born in El Paso and lived there through high school, moving to New Mexico in 1986. Denish was portraying her as an outsider.

"A lot of people perceive that as race baiting, and I think this is also in that gray area where a lot of Latino voters might say, 'wait a minute, I don’t feel comfortable with this,'" Sanchez told KRQE. "Making a statement like this implies that Latinos all think one way ideologically."

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