Hey Mel, do Latinos like the GOP?

CNN/Progreso Weekly

Watch former Florida Senator Mel Martinez getting grilled by CNN’s Soledad O’Brien on the question of Hispanics and the Republican Party.

O’Brien read a statement from a Palmetto State RNC delegate and published in the Wall Street Journal in which he laments the fact that the Republican Party’s platform is relatively unknown to minority voters.

“In many ways, we’re at square one,” the delegate told WSJ. “There are large portions of the population – African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians, young voters – who simply don’t know us.”

“Is it that they don’t know you? Meaning you as the GOP,” O’Brien asked Martinez. “Or is that they know you and they decided they don’t like you?”

The exchange is worth the watch.