Tom Tancredo

They have a Republican president, and this issue is so divisive within the Republican Party.

There, there are divisions within the Democratic Party, to be sure, over this, but this, you, you have passionate members of the House of Representatives in particular who, who would brook no kind of guest worker program and who, you know, Tom Tancredo is saying he'll run for president and, and, and force the, you know, top-tier candidates, uh, for the Republican Party to deal with this issue at every debate in every state as long as he can last if he doesn't, if, if, if something like this passes.

So it, this is a problem for the Republicans.

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he doesn't have the political strength

... get a Tom Tancredo or anybody else-

He's in a, he's in a very difficult-

By late spring of 2010, Colorado had a highly competitive Republican and Democrat primary.

Although Buck positioned himself as the candidate for the Tea Party movement during the Republican Party, he stirred controversy at times with remarks critical of former Representative Tom Tancredo, a Tea Party favorite, in the statement, Will you tell those dumb, I don't know if I can say the word, dumb butts at the Tea Party to stop asking questions about birth certificates while I'm on the camera? a reference to those suspicious of President Barack Obama's birthplace.

Buck blamed the comments on his exhaustion and frustration after months of campaigning.

But he also dealt with John Southers not supporting him.

Yeah, it's really unfortunate.

We were following a few years ago when Tom Tancredo, which I was a fan of him when he was in Congress, but then when he ran for governor and tried to run under the Constitution Party, we saw the exact same thing, and it was unfortunate that it was taken away from these Republican votes and Democrats have gotten a stronghold.

Ken, in the last minute or so that we have here, give your prediction.

What do you think is going to happen, both on the nationwide front? Can Republicans push back? And will we win on these races? And in Colorado, I have been following that Victor Marks, that Republican that really sounds like he may have a chance to win the governorship in Colorado and maybe start to get things back on the right track.

You know, it's been a long, long time since I put my hand in the air as a volunteer.

I was going to be Tom Tancredo's press secretary if he won anything.

He was running for mayor.

I said, I'll be his press secretary.

But I think what Trump offered Republicans in 2016, and this is still in the period, like 2015, 2016, when GOP elites are trying to disavow him, what he offers them is the ability to disavow him.

If Pat Buchanan is running or whatever, or Tom Tancredo or somebody, somebody who's been in Congress under the Republican name or been in GOP politics a long time, you can't say that's not one of ours.

Right.

But what Trump does is he sort of offers the ultimate in in what the Republican Party had been for a long time, which is we want those people's votes.