Posted on 05/08/2015 11:57:15 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) predicted Thursday Republicans will lose the 2016 presidential election without major immigration reform, saying the party is struggling to win minority voters.
“The only way we lose this election is if we beat ourselves and that is very possible, but we are getting creamed with non-white voters,” Graham, a likely 2016 presidential contender, told host Susan Page on USA Today’s “Capital Download.”
“We’ll lose,” he said, if the party doesn't improve its prospects with minorities.
“I mean, we’ve got a big hole we’ve dug with Hispanics,” he added. “We’ve gone from 44 percent of the Hispanic vote [in the 2004 presidential election] to 27 percent [in 2012]. “You’ll never convince me ... it’s not because of the immigration debate,” said Graham.
Graham said he was “98.6 percent sure” he would seek the Oval Office next year. If he does, the South Carolina lawmaker has made up his mind on immigration reform.
“If I were the president of the United States, I would veto any bill that did not have a pathway to citizenship,” Graham said.
“You would have a long, hard path to citizenship... but I want to create that path because I don’t like the idea of millions of people living in America for the rest of their lives being the hired help,” he added. “That’s not who we are.”
Graham also lashed out at Republicans who believe a secure border is necessary before tackling citizenship for illegal immigrants.
“That’s not practical,” Graham said of addressing the border before amnesty.
“No Democratic Congress is going to give the Republican Party everything we want on border security until you tell them what happens to the 11 million,” he added, referring to the estimated number of illegal immigrants.
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Is Lindsey still around, and why should his opinion matter?
Says Senator Grahamnesty...
What an Einstein this guy is.
How well you gonna do without white voters Linda?
I’d love to see the headline, ‘democrats getting creamed with non-minority voters’.
Miss Lindsey, if you want to get creamed, please do so out of my sight, and have the courtesy NOT to tell me about it.
He has no core principles. He sees a group under the sway of lies and rather than going for the truth he wants to negotiate how many of the lies we must accept as true.
The stupid Repubs wouldn’t get creamed if they embraced Conservatism and Free America with its laws and the Constitution...but nooooooooooo. The he** with all RINOs. I hope they lose.
Ignorance is bliss and may lead to disaster.
Says the guy that secretly likes to get creamed with white...
Stupid RINO.
The Democrats have trained much of the non-white population to love government and the free sh** it hands out.
And how does our progressive Government pay for it? With unbacked, printed money, massive debt, and manipulated interest rates. Its been going on for 45 years - it only kicked into over-drive in the last 7 years.
And people still don’t believe the Federal Reserve and our financial system are at the root of 1000 social, as well as economic, ills?
This man must be on drugs. You have to be delusional to think that Princess Lindsey has any chance of winning.
Well we told you to build a wall jackass!
All ethnicities want security.
That starts with a secure border, which is step one for immigration to citizenship.
The idea that minorities will vote for an insecure border is ridiculous.
Paint Hillary as a risky choice, a vote for insecurity.
The GOP establishment is quick to point out problems, but never have a solution. They need to develop a message that shows how conservatism works for everyone. It’s a rising-tide-lifts-all-boats concept, not black versus white, rich versus poor. All this anti-rich, anti-business crap. When’s the last time you were hired by a poor person or a non-business entity?
If so it would because they are mostly connected to a family member on:
Welfare
Government Employment
Unemployment
and so forth... You get my drift.
White man’s burden, we get the bill and others get the vote.
The Greatest Accomplishment of Lyndon Baines Johnson was flipping the Black vote from Republican to Democrat.
And how does our progressive Government pay for it? With unbacked, printed money, massive debt, and manipulated interest rates. Its been going on for 45 years - it only kicked into over-drive in the last 7 years.
And this is how he flipped those voters.
And people still don’t believe the Federal Reserve and our financial system are at the root of 1000 social, as well as economic, ills?
Well the Libertarians don't understand the connection, and the country club elite don't care.
He means “cheaters.” The GOPe will get creamed by cheaters.
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