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Lots of -- latinos are conservative. they're not voting conservative but democrat z interesting is that governor martinez said, i think she used the word damn she went to a launch with democrats and talked issues and she goes damn i'm a republican or something like that. so those two things that there is a huge hispanic population that will vote republican. numbers don't show that so far. >> right and he talks about picking yourselves up by your boot straps which is something people come here planning to do. so a lot vote on pocketbook issues. so they feel like one part yes or another may be b...

Lots of -- latinos are conservative. they're not voting conservative but democrat z interesting is that governor martinez said, i think she used the word damn she went to a launch with democrats and talked issues and she goes damn i'm a republican or something like that. so those two things that there is a huge hispanic population that will vote republican. numbers don't show that so far. >> right and he talks about picking yourselves up by your boot straps which is something people come here planning to do. so a lot vote on pocketbook issues. so they feel like one part yes or another may be b...

[cheering] >> we believe in the rugged individual. texas may be the one place where people actually still have boot straps. and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. but we also recognize that there are some things we can't do alone. we have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. and it starts with education. [cheering] 20 years ago, joaquin and i left home for college and then for law school. and those classrooms, we met some of the brightest folks in the world. but at the end of our days there, i couldn't help but to think back to my klaas mates at...

Successful republicans who got up to the podium, you know, they were just granted speaking slots to talk about, they had one thing in common. they grew up poor, and through no help from society around them at all, they were able to pull themselves up by their boot straps and did it. >> my dad never finished high school. >> dad was a truck driver. >> dad grew up in poverty. >> my dad lost his job. >> working poor parents in a meat packing town. >> as a widow with seven children. >> basement apartment. >> tiny, two-bedroom house. >> pasta and tuna fish. >> working class. >> working class. knl ca...

They want to get rid of the new deal. this will starve the beast. this budget will starve the beast in their words. it will set the table for getting rid of a new deal. here comes a young conservative who will give a vision of own your own health care and retirement and education. it's your own society. so go do what you want. i think it connects with some of the stories of hey we've got a bunch of people at the republican convention that have talked about pulling up the boot straps. they made it. why can't you? be that american. i think it's the new deal and i think it's a fast track to a fla...