Tough Choice for Republicans

Jessica Taylor:
“Some Republican lawmakers are increasingly facing a tough choice –
support a comprehensive immigration bill and face a backlash from their
own voters or oppose efforts to provide a path to citizenship for
undocumented workers and contribute to larger GOP losses in the future.
Republican strategists are already fretting about the long-term
implications for the party if they reject a comprehensive immigration
bill, but that’s a bitter pill for conservative activists to swallow,
who are promising primary challenges and substantial blowback if
lawmakers back reform. With fewer and fewer competitive House districts
and Senate lawmakers who voted for the reform bill passed last week
already facing threats of primary challenges, conservative activists are
threatening to kill the effort, and it’s one reason GOP leadership and
House Speaker John Boehner has been hesitant to even bring up the Senate
bill for a vote.”