Q&A With Alex Castellanos

Alex Castellanos is a Cuban-American advisor and senior media strategist in Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign. Castellanos talks about the Nevada results, looks ahead to Florida and takes a few gentle jabs at Rudy Giuliani.

In Nevada, the exit polls indicated Romney had a very high percentage of support among Latino voters. How much of that is the result of the campaign’s Hispanic media outreach? How much of that is just Romney the candidate?

The governor’s had a very strong media outreach to Hispanic voters all across the country and a website in Spanish, but I’d say most of it is just the governor’s message. Mitt Romney is the candidate of optimism and opportunity in this race and I think that he makes you feel that there isn’t any challenge that America and Americans can’t meet. And I think that for the Hispanic community, so many of us who have come here for that opportunity, that’s what we want to see in a candidate.

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