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Rep. Tancredo mulls running for president to push illegal immigration issue
08/25/2006
On Friday's edition of FOX's Your World with Neil Cavuto, Colorado's Republican Rep. Tom Tancredo said that if "no one else" in the party will push the illegal immigration issue then he would enter the 2008 Presidential race.

"If it is -- if the situation develops that no one else will take this issue on not just with their rhetoric, but with their heart -- because people will see through that, I think -- if they will really do this, then I'll be knocking on doors for them," said Rep. Tancredo.

"If no one does, I will do it and I will push it as hard as I can because I believe with all my heart, Neil, that this -- we're talking about the country here, the salvation of the nation," said Tancredo. "I believe it is that much of a problem."

A few days ago, Tancredo placed fourth in a Zogby poll which featured only "blind bios."

"The pollsters didn’t ask about candidates by name," reported M.E. Sprengelmeyer for the Rocky Mountain News. "Instead, they read brief biographies of various would-be contenders and then asked people to pick their favorites."

"Candidate J is a four-term Congressman from a swing state in the Midwest," Tancredo's "blind bio" read. "Candidate J is best known of being an outspoken critic of illegal immigration."

"He has also been highly critical of the Bush administration’s guest worker plan," the Zogby bio continued. "Before coming to Congress, Candidate J was a Department of Education official under Reagan and George H.W. Bush and was president of a conservative think tank."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Senator_Tancredo_mulls_running_for_president_0825.html