McCain enthusiastic about upside of white backlash
by digby
Well, maybe not enthusiastic. But relieved anyway:
Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., appears to have conceded that the Republican Party has alienated Hispanic voters and will have to rely increasingly on white voters to win in November.
"An interesting phenomenon right now is the huge turnouts for the Republican primaries, low turnout for the Democrat primaries," McCain said in a Sunday appearance on the Phoenix-based show Politics in the Yard. "Now if all those people would get behind the Republican candidate, I think we could win this election despite the alienation, frankly, of a lot of the Hispanic voters.”
That's awesome! But I think he's evading the real point. It's because they've alienated Hispanic voters that hey have been getting this large turnout. Trump's wall and the giddy prospect of rounding up Mexicans and deporting them has the white base of the GOP so excited they can't wait to vote for it.
They're finally getting what they want. And McCain's happy about it. But he should rethink that a little bit. Those angry Trump and Cruz voters all hate him as much as they hate immigrants and Muslims. Any politician running for re-election in Arizona under those circumstances could probably use a few Latinos in his corner.
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