Influential Hispanic Republicans rally around underdog Garcia in NH

*Some inside ball for the political junkies among you. Latino Republicans are bucking the GOP establishment. They’re backing a staunch conservative Latina in the race for New Hampshire’s 2nd district. Latino GOP funders are lining up … VL

By  Alexandra Jaffe, The Hill

Republicans are girding for a different sort of civil war in New Hampshire’s 2nd District. 

Some big-name Hispanic Republicans are rallying around underdog state Rep. Marilinda Garcia over the GOP establishment pick, state Sen. Gary Lambert, in their primary fight to take on freshman Rep. Ann Kuster (D). 

Many D.C. insiders are skeptical of Garcia, though, because of her fundraising troubles — in the first quarter she had $59,000 cash on hand to Lambert’s $260,000 — and her staunch conservatism. Meanwhile, Lambert was named to the first level of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s Young Guns program, a designation for top candidates. 

But that could begin to change as Hispanic heavy hitters remind the national GOP it needs to be serious by expanding its candidate pool. 

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