We let you be everywhere at once. innovations like these are extending our reach so you can extend yours. and now, even at 30,000 feet you can still touch the ground. a conversation about the present and the futureç of the tea party movement, with israel ortega, angela maria kelley and one of the movement s original leaders, amy kremer of the tea party express. the thing that i like about tea party is the idea that everybody in a democracy gets to have a voice, and the thing that happened then after sort of the mid terms was the occupy movement, beginning to have a voice, and i have been critical of and excited about both. but i wanted to share this nbc/ wall street journal poll from last week about the both the occupy movement and the tea party movement, asking when it
Is the tea party showing signs of renewed strength? remember, utah is the last primary, and they are alive in utah. welcome back israel ortega and angela maria kelley and amy kremer, cofounder of the nonprofit american grassroots coalition. thank you, all, for joining me. thank you for having us. we have tea. i have amy kremer and tea on the set here. i m really encouraged are youç here, i am fascinated by where the tea party is going now, and as a movement. and so there is clearly evidence there is still life, but certainly seems like a very different movement today, than it was in 2008. just from your perspective, what is the tea party movement? we re still here, but we re online. not out on the streets protesting and having rallies.
Reyes and angela maria kelley. i want to jump right back in here. starting back again on immigration, and i ve been pushing pretty hard on this, and your point, angela, it s it s in part not the central issue, right? the central issue is economic and jobs and war and health care and all of that, but it does somehow feel important, and david axle rod, just on cnn this morning, talking about it, saying it didn t get done at the end of the first term, mo mostl because of congress, because they were standing in the way, getting done. will they play that sound bite over and over again and try to hold president obama s feet to the fire? i think they may try to hold his feet to the fire in that way. one of the by-products, i think the latino community, more than any other period in american
As vice president i m sorry. as a do a good job as senator, i ll have a chance to do all sorts of things. this is a mistake i ve never made. in a couple of years, after running nbc universal, right? he wants that time machine. clearly this is on his mind. it suggests to me the camps have been in conversation. of course. does that suddenly changeç that optic, if it s marco rubio? i think it would generate some excitement in the community, just like sarah palin did generate excitement among women. but marco rubio, look at his record, really on the opposite side of all of the issues that matter to latinos. latinos tend not to vote coethnic. we re voting on policy, and he doesn t you want our policies and i go back to the sotomayor
Publication of heritage foundation. raul reyes, and angela maria kelley, vice president of immigration policy and advocacy at the center for american progress. thank you, all, for being here. thank you for having us. here is my first question. yeah. is the latino vote actually up for grabs in this election? or is this really just an issue that the president has already won the vast majority of the vote and he has to play a turnout game? or is there seriously a way in which mitt romney might be able to get a substantial portion of the latino vote? you mentioned mitt romney and the whole etch-a-sketch thing. it s not that he needs the etch-a-sketch, he needs more like a time machine. not just that he has had these extreme views on immigration. it s that during the primaries, he also attacked other candidates for their moderate views. went after newt gingrich and went after rick perry. so not just that he can move back to the center, which lots of candidates do.