Newt Gingrich: “He's the first Republican to get a majority of the Catholic…”

“He got the largest percentage of African American males of any Republican since Eisenhower, you know, 70 years ago. That's right. He's the first Republican to get a majority of the Catholic vote. So there are an awful lot of people who are first and second generation legal immigrants who are as mad about illegal immigrants as people whose relatives came over in 1700.” (08:54–08:59)

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