Presidential hopeful Rep. Tom Tancredo dropped out of the race to win the Republican Presidential nomination today. The move left many Americans asking the question, “who?”.
Although Tancredo wasn’t a so-called “top tier” candidate, he did bring the issue of illegal immigration into the debate, and into the minds of voters.
Tancredo, a Colorado Republican, is a fierce proponent of stricter illegal immigration laws, but his campaign struggled to gain traction with Republican primary voters, despite many naming illegal immigration as a top concern. [source]
In the message on his campaign website, he had this to say:
This month alone The Economist, the New Yorker, the Wall Street Journal and a score of other newspapers have written similar assessments, grudgingly crediting our campaign with forcing the issue of immigration to the center of the national stage and—more importantly—with forcing every presidential candidate to commit themselves to an immigration plan that calls for securing the borders, opposing amnesty and enforcing the law.
One can only hope that whoever goes on to win the nomination will carry the cause into the general election – but I don’t recommend getting your hopes up.
