points. suburbanits and city dwellers, african-americans and lati latinos, women and men, doctors and teachers, factory workers and tradesmen, republicans and democrats and independents, together they have demanded that we stay the course. they have helped set. let s be different than our neighbors. let s put more money in the pockets of our middle class by not taking it out of their pockets in the first place. we have to be willing to personally reach out a helping hand to a neighbor or a friend suffering from drug addiction or depression or the dignity stripping loss of a job. every person, no matter what challenge they are facing in their lives, must believe that they have inside of them all of the god-given ability needed to be happy. and they will not believe that if all they hear from us is that
and by the way given that the gop is so almost estranged from the latino community, around the issue of immigration, why would they want to put themselves on the wrong side of another issue important to lati latinos. doesn t make sense. we re almost out of time but i wanted to ask about the politics of this. a lot of the talk has been about how this plays for republicans with the shutdown, who gets blamed? we re staying only in the mindset of the shutdown. if you go back a couple of months, one of biggest items of all domestic policy on the table was trying to get somewhere towards comprehensive immigration reform and it seems like all of the emphasis and oxygen taken up by this budget shutdown debate which is only a six-week proposal anyway is crowding out immigration. my question is if that s the case, do the politics of that hurt the republican party or people to your mind not really keep track of why immigration went by the wayside? no, ar i, i assure you this
about education. this is not to say he wasn t speaking to latinos directly, but he s got a lot of catching up to do on a lot of things when it comes to hispanic voters. our new nbc news/ wall street journal tell le moonld emoonlu not confident among latinos. a 49-45 split there. that optimism is helping the president, but the romney campaign believes it needs one message rooted in the economy to speak to everyone, including lati latinos. romney s marco rubio said as much on fox. i m not shump the message the republican party should have for americans with hispanic descent is any different than the rest of america. the big difference between the two campaigns tactically.
he also said early on in the primary that he would veto the dream act if he were president. he tried to soften it since. but he is no friend of immigration. we also know that above 85% of latino voters support immigration reform, in particular the dream act with the path to citizenship. so him cuddling up to marco is not going to help him because the substance isn t there. is he aligned with the people who oppose the latino community? is that the way it s looked at? has he made his stand with the anglos, if you will, to use that phrase, has he made the decision, i don t want the latino vote? i want the people who don t like lati latinos? has he made that decision, victoria? has he taken sides? he absolutely did. he had to do it in the primary because in order to win the primary, he had to run to the extreme. what he feels in his heart of hearts, i don t know. but in this campaign year in
different direction every morning. come on, white chocolate. oh, no. yup. he can explain that one, soledad. soledad. bye, guys. captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m going to try to compose myself here. it is top of the hour. 9:00 a.m. eastern time. we begin with five days until florida s republican presidential primary and just hours from the cnn debate there. mitt romney and newt gingrich are locked in a dead heat in the polls. this debate could be a game changer. the votes the candidates want right now, latinos. the ads prove it. joe johns is live in mount dora. he s calling romney the most anti-immigration candidate. reporter: that s absolutely right, kyra. it s very interesting to watch as that develops. senator marco rub yes who s sort of a favorite son of florida actually chaz tiesed gingrich for putting that radio ad out saying it was inaccurate. gingrich saying last night in a press media availability here in florida that he pulled the ad because he did it