WASHINGTON -- Republican Sen.-elect Ted Cruz, who will become the first Latino senator from Texas when he takes office next year, blames his party's weakness with Hispanic voters on one statement: former GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney's claim that 47 percent of Americans are dependent on government and want to stay that way.
"You want to know why Barack Obama won 71 percent of the Hispanic vote? Tone on immigration contributed, but I think far more important was '47 percent,'" Cruz said Thursday at a gala for conservative group the American Principles Project.
He said it wasn't necessarily Romney's fault -- "everyone, if you put a camera in their face all day long, will say something poorly" -- it was that Republicans were unable to show that the party doesn't think those Americans want to improve their economic standing.
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