the economic issues also keep latino voters away from their party. absolutely. these ideas aren t necessarily helpful. and the issues of choice, actually, are one of the number one reasons why latinas, young women, actually overwhelmingly voted for the president. it s the tone they re tone deaf to the actual changing demographics of america. let s back up here. short of comprehensive immigration reform, the gop is going to have a latino vote problem the following day. short of a pathway to citizenship. why? sure, you can provide individuals basically to be legal residents but then you have a whole class of american latinos walking around where people are going to question, are you an american? based on your, you know, based on the color of your skin? short of pathway to citizenship, you re going to have a latino vote problem. martin, i have quickly want to say, if you want to understand how difficult this issue is for republicans, look not at rand paul but marco rubio, himsel
dream act. he came down against the dream act. i have to ask you then, joy, is rand paul s conversation about immigration so incoherent because it s not immigration that he cares about, it s him being elected president in 2016? exactly. that s why it s a jumbled mess because the only thing that really matters to this guy is becoming president. this is a libertarian trying to shoehorn himself into the republican party primary process and knows he has to take a certain number of boxes to be acceptable to the base of the republican party. he s trying not to make the same mistakes his dad did. ron paul had a huge following among younger people, more libertarian. he was anti-war. rand paul believes a lot of same things his dad does. he s trying to fix himself to fit in with hardline right wing primary voters among the primary party. it s not easy. maria teresa, mr. paul is not the only person who s had trouble in the immigration in the gop autopsy report, the phrase we must embra
deep enough to get a sense of what s happening here. this was really the hardest hit county so far in the state. county saw 25 inches of rain in the last several days. keep in mind also there was a wind event. this storm packed a punch. winds gusting at 45 miles per hour. strong enough to knock over several things, knock down some trees and cause a lot of problems with debris in the roads. here along this coastal road, we are finding that police are in place to make sure that drivers are not surprised when they ran past those low lying areas when they find again, water at least a foot high, so precautions are being taken. i also want to show you what s happening right now. just east of us in the state, flooding is happening right now in cities like live oak and lake city, that s where they are dealing with the storm system as it goes very slowly over the state of florida causing a lot of flooding, soledad. george howell, updating us on what looks like a big giant mess in fl