re: #87 palomino

Yeah, I don’t see how he gets the albatross off his neck, regardless of what happens in the House (probably nothing). And he didn’t just support it, he created it along with the Gang of 8. The Republican base isn’t likely to forgive that, given how racial and xenophobic animus play such a part in their self-identity.

Exactly. And efforts to run away from that by taking refuge in the far-right just makes him even less desirable to moderate voters. Yet you can be sure that he’ll at least flirt with a run at the brass ring by selling his heritage…or at least the version of his heritage that sounds better than “My parents left Cuba because they wanted to make more money in America.”