How a Republican alienated many of his key Hispanic supporters and lost.
Republican party stalwart Bill McCollum lost Tuesday’s GOP gubernatorial primary in Florida because Hispanic Republicans stayed home after he pandered to the party’s right wing on immigration, a state GOP strategist just said.
Navarro who has advised leading Republicans such as former Florida governor Jeb Bush and Sen. John McCain, said McCollum alienated many of his key Hispanic supporters when he hustled out proposed legislation that would crack down on illegal immigration two weeks before the election.
“He antagonized some of his top Hispanic advisers, his Hispanic voters and his Hispanic surrogates,” she said, “And the backlash was perhaps much larger than what he envisioned.”
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