the law. better enforcement so you don t have these, you know, anchor babies as they are described coming into the country. reporter: trump s talk is helping win support for now, but could spell trouble for the republican party down the road. mitt romney won 27% of the latino vote in 2012, and the party has to do better than that to win in 2016. it is insulting for latinos. if you endorse ending birth right citizenship, you re not going to get more support from latino voters and you re not going to win the white house. reporter: this week the conservative leaning editorial board of the wall street journal wrote mr. trump is bidding to make the gop the deportation party, end quote. the board said if they want to lose in 2016, they ll follow trump s anti-immigrant siren. athena jones in washington. back with me, anna navarro, jeffrey lord. jeff, i want to begin with you.
extent that mitt romney s able to distance himself from the congressional gop brand, which he s going to need to do to become competitive in northeastern states, into the suburban markets, particularly in the collar counties outside of philadelphia, if pennsylvania s to be a competitive state. andrea mitchell, what are the odds of the republicans in the house of allowing mitt romney to do that? are they going to all stand silently by as mitt romney tries to swerve leftward? let me just point out, it s not only on the social issues. the student loan debate, which was engaged this week by the president in these three battleground states, and mitt romney notably yesterday coming back to the microphone at a brief press conference in pennsylvania to say, oh, by the way win support that reauthorization before july 1st, that the student loan interest rates don t double. so basically he and barack obama are on the same side. today i interviewed senator pat toomey from pennsylvania and he w