Canceling Telemundo Debate Would Be At Odds With GOP ‘Autopsy’

*So I read the GOP “autopsy” to gauge where their heads were back in 2012. Here’s what it said: “It is imperative that the RNC changes how it engages with Hispanic communities to welcome in new members of our Party. If Hispanic Americans hear that the GOP doesn’t want them in the United States, they won’t pay attention to our next sentence. It doesn’t matter what we say about education, jobs or the economy; if Hispanics think that we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies. In essence, Hispanic voters tell us our Party’s position on immigration has become a litmus test, measuring whether we are meeting them with a welcome mat or a closed door.”   There’s a lot to unpack here.  Jeb!, fluent in Spanish, is the only GOP presidential candidate who’s OK with Telemundo. Trump is a convenient excuse for the divergence from the autopsy’s stated goals. The RNC couldn’t be farther from where it saw itself going into 2016. VL

By Igor Bobic, Hufington Post Politics

WASHINGTON — In the wake of the 2012 election, the Republican National Committee penned a 100-page “autopsy” report that included, among a bevy of other recommendations, how to repair the party’s standing with Latino voters that it badly failed to win over with former presidential nominee Mitt Romney. It’s now looking like that report might need an autopsy as well.

On Sunday, representatives of nearly every 2016 Republican presidential campaign met in Virginia to discuss changes to the debate process after frustrations boiled over with the RNC over last week’s primary debate hosted by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado. The meeting followed news that the RNC suspended its partnership with NBC News due to grievances with CNBC moderators.

The 2016 campaigns didn’t find much agreement on Sunday, with the exception of an affirmation of Fox News as a future debate host. According to The Washington Post, however, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s campaign lobbied to reinstate the only GOP debate set to air on a Spanish-language TV network — Telemundo.

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