Hispanics focus of GOP debate tonight

Seeking to reverse defections by Hispanic voters, Republican presidential candidates will participate tonight in the party’s first debate on a Spanish-language network. But the jury is out on whether the move is too little, too late.

All but one Republican candidate declined an invitation to debate on the same network, Univision, in September. Seven of the eight Democratic candidates, in contrast, debated that month on Univision, the nation’s largest Spanish-language network.

Most GOP contenders, including former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, also have declined two other invitations to address Hispanics and have cranked up their hard-line rhetoric on illegal immigration.”*

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