Just One GOP Candidate Showed for Latino Convention

More than 1,200 Hispanic leaders have gathered in Las Vegas “for, among other things, a presidential candidates forum. Yet out of the GOP’s 16 declared or likely presidential candidates, only one — retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson — bothered to show up,” the Washington Post reports.

“Many campaigns cited ‘scheduling conflicts’ for skipping the 32nd annual convention of the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials. Instead, at least 13 GOP candidates plan to be in Washington this week to address the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s ‘Road to the Majority’ conference, the latest in a busy series of presidential cattle-call events for social conservatives.”