americans. most americans understand that the country is built oim gragz and we don t feel we don t feel fear about immigration. it s not building a wall. that s just not going to work for most people. john this also to me symbolizes to what jess is saying. where the center of the democratic party is. this is this was, i think, a surprising announcement in that it went out past what this president has done but this didn t come about, you know this is the work of ten years of organizing by the folks you were mentioning immigration rights activists, dreamers, to push really to push the democratic party on this issue. it s very true and it s emblem attic of what s happening in nevada when harry reid several cycles ago realized what the changing demographics chris, the burgeoning hispanic population, maybe 20% of the electorate in nevada in november, 2016 and, you know i don t want to look at the hillary clinton heart, whether she believes it or this is pure political pandering o
evolution today, chris, as you laid out. she didn t just support president obama s executive order. she said she ll put out her own executive orders anything within the law that s necessary. she supported family reunification. she talked about the tension. she said essentially everything that the photo typical dreamer or hispanic voter on this issue would want to hear. you know we always complain about politicians not taking any positions, dancing around the issues. there was none of that today. she made it clear where she was and i think that she was baiting the republican candidate to come after her. call it amnesty, say it s a lawlessness. say whatever you want. she s going after that demographic. john makes a great point here that this wasn t wishy washy. she has enunciated a bunch of positions that she has to defend or essentially they re on the record. mitch mcconnell announced he was
class status. joining me now, nevada reporter john raulson and jess mcintosh. i was at rancho high school in 2008 at a caucus back in the early days of that campaign. they were trying to run this caucus and didn t have the infrastructure in place. two things there 37 hillary clinton won a huge amount of hispanic voters in that caucus but she was historically taking a pretty tough line. remember that driver s license moment where she waffled a about it on it she talked about deporting anyone who committed a crime, no marion matter how minor. how big a step was this today for her in this campaign? well, i think it was pretty shocking, chris, and you laid it out pretty well. her campaign signaled this morning to the media that she would be going for a path to citizenship. that was obvious. she had to stake out that territory. but she sprinted way past that
over. 75% are women and children. and when she talks about this issue as a women and families issue, she is relating directly to the people who are living that experience. that s why it s so smart and that s why it s going to resinate for a really long time. john jeb bush who is sort of i think widely seen as the sort of quote/unquote most moderate on immigrational, that term can be very hard to bend down. he put out a cinco de mayo announcement today in his pretty good spanish. it seems to me like jeb bush just pointed out he s caught right, between understanding what the general elector wants, what the primary elector wants, and it seems to me he s going to try to get over in some ways with some ambiguity and his personal story, being married to a woman who is a immigrant. will that stand? it s very interesting. one week from tomorrow jeb bush will be in nevada. he s just started stepping up in nevada.