vote on election day is forcing his party to rethink the messaging and the policies as well. one big sign of that comes this week as the gop votes to expand visas for foreign, science and to make it easier for immigrants with green cards to bring their families to america. joining me from austin, texas, latino and msnbc contributor dr. victor victoria soto. how would you describe the gop s decision to move on this issue? is it pandering or is it truly an effective means of establishing the bigger tent that the senator just mentioned? they re going back to their george w. bush roots. they saw what worked in 2000 and 2004 and realized that they can t move forward without putting into place a latino strategy, and the plan that senator mccain was talking about is essentially a distilled version of what mitt romney talked about this summer in
destroying what about o reilly calls traditional america? apparently. i m glad he s so brilliant that he finally figured out the key to why mitt romney lost. it was the poor who unseated one of the richest men in america. talk about david defeating goliath. oh, my god. so happy that happened. look, the gop has been defending the wealthy and attacking the poor for many, many years. do you think they re going to suddenly come home and vote for the gop after all these years of running their business like that? you know, look, it s not about free stuff. we want to protect personal liberty and use government to uplift people, to change their lives in better ways and protect the most free stuff, free stuff. protect the most vulnerable people in america. free stuff. isn t government supposed to help people? no, stre stuff. when you talk to them about it, they call it pandering. we call it improving people s lives. yeah, free stuff. jonathan, thinks may only get worse for rep
absentee program which we are doing fantastic at. we are focused at getting the vote out toehe early vote. it s one of the most important things you can do. you shouldn t say we should make it more than less. voting is an absolute right. people in this state died and lynched for the right to vote. early voting is good. absentee voting is good. they are not absolute rights, they are privileges. jewish voters, hispanic voters. the only ones doing this as a pandering to the black voters by the democratic party, as usual to get reverend sharpton. hang on, whoa, clarence, clarence, how is it pandering? we are running out of time, but how is it pandering? shgs no sh, no, no.
he s just trying to get the votes of people who don t like china for some reason. he s parading as this pro-business executive who understands the business world. he understands it perfectly well that that is not the way you conduct u.s./chinese relations, to attack them on the first day of his presidency. but is it pandering? total pander. or sticking up for what he believes. he doesn t believe that for a nano second, and none of his friends believe it. not a single one of his friends in his crowd at bain capital, outside of bain capital believes that it s the right thing to do to declare china a currency manipulator on day one. i have talked to many of them and they scoff at it behind his back and they know that he s just saying this to get elected president but ots not going to work because so many ohio jobs are dependent on chinese investment and people know that in other cases, as in sensata, he has willingly been part of jobs that shipped jobs overvaes.
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