Courting Latino Candidates: A Smart Move For the GOP

Texas GOP Vote reported that: According to an article in the Wall Street Journal, high ranking Republicans are starting to tone down harsh rhetoric toward immigration and trying to recruit more Latino candidates in "response to the party’s soul-searching about tactics that many strategists believe have alienated the country’s fastest-growing voter bloc." George P. Bush, the son of former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, has founded a political action committee that promotes Hispanics for state and local offices called Hispanic Republicans of Texas. Furthermore, Georgia Representative Tom Price, who was once a strong opponent of working to find a sensible immigration policy, has recently made a "Lou Dobbs-like" transition and has been meeting with Hispanic leaders to find a new tone – one that will not turn away the conservative Hispanics. Such actions can carry risks for Republicans, however, as some people see any sort of appraoch to sensible immigration as amnesty, when this is not the case.