Tancredo says put a fork in McCain campaign

June 8, 2007

Washington, D.C. - Republican Tom Tancredo says the defeat of the immigration bill will be the "death knell" for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign.

Republican Tom Tancredo says the defeat of the immigration bill will be the death knell for Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign.

The GOP rival for the nomination made the comments in an interview Friday on Iowa Public Television's "Iowa Press" show.

"I think that the silver lining in this bill and the fact that we've debated this bill and the fact that he's pushed it so hard, it probably means there will never be a President John McCain," he said.

"This is becoming as big an issue for him as it is for me in a way," said Tancredo, who strongly opposed McCain on the immigration bill and has built his campaign around the issue. He said failure to get the bill through should send a message to McCain and his supporters, and claimed "This is sort of the death knell for John McCain's campaign."