You shouldn’t have hired Steve Schmidt and Henry Barbour. That told me immediately that you have a tin ear politically, and didn’t mind stabbing your base in the back.
Even if you haven’t fought some of his policies in Texas, you should have realized what he was years ago when he began courting Hispanic voters by speaking at La Raza conferences.
A genuine conservative isn’t going to consider speaking to ANY racial supremacist organization.
Not the Ku Klux Klan. Not Aryan Nation. Not Stormfront. Not The Black Panthers. Not La Raza.
Something was clearly wrong with Rick Perry and with Marco Rubio when they thought that was okay. And one hundred percent of their followers had to embrace the notion that maybe promoting racial dominance maintained by violence if necessary was okay...at least if it wasn’t by Caucasians.