After his narrow victory in Iowa and resounding win in New Hampshire, Mitt Romney may well be on his way to locking up the Republican nomination before the primary is even a month old. But the damage that the GOP fight has done to his chances of winning the... Continue »
On a day set aside to honor civil rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr., Mitt Romney plans to tout his extreme immigration positions during a campaign stop in South Carolina today — with Kris Kobach, the author of Arizona's and Alabama's immigration laws, at his side. Continue »
Last night, at the GOP Presidential debate from South Carolina, Mitt Romney reiterated his opposition to the DREAM Act, calling it a "mistake." And, Romney also renewed his vow to veto the legislation. He also spoke about a lot about opportunity. What Mitt doesn't get -- or doesn't... Continue »
As many opponents of immigration reform work hard to make clear, they are against illegal immigration (because "illegal is illegal") and don't have any beef with people who come here through sanctioned means. Continue »
The rap on Mitt Romney is that he is a political opportunist who lacks core principles. No wonder. The Romney campaign's efforts to simultaneously run two very different campaigns in South Carolina and Florida serve only to confirm Romney's shape-shifting ways. Continue »
The Real Mitt Romney has launched a bid to win over Latino voters, from noting that his father was born in Mexico to airing a new Spanish-language ad in Florida. But he's not getting any help from @MexicanMitt, a ribald and unsympathetic Latino alter ego someone has launched on... Continue »
Mitt, we hardly knew ye. Or should I say, "primo!" As much as it embarrasses me to admit it, given some of his views and how he expresses them, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee and I could be distant cousins. Romney's father, George, was born in Chihuahua, Mexico, and... Continue »
As we highlighted, yesterday Mitt Romney proudly trumpeted the endorsement of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) –the leading architect of costly and inhumane state-based, "papers, please" anti-immigration laws like Alabama's and Arizona's. Continue »
Mitt Romney collected the endorsements Wednesday of the architect of Arizona's immigration-crackdown law, marking the final step on a journey that has taken him from lukewarm support of legalization to the Republican presidential field's most ardent opponent of amnesty. Continue »
When it comes to Hispanic outreach, Republicans on Wednesday took two tiny steps forward and one giant step back. The RNC announced they were ramping up their outreach efforts to Hispanic voters and Mitt Romney released an advertisement in Florida in Spanish. Continue »