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Republican quits in row over comments

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A Republican official in the U.S. has resigned over comments he made to the BBC that ‘Hispanics consider themselves above blacks.’

Fernando de Baca, chairman of the Republican Party in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, also said Latinos ‘won’t vote for a black president.’

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De Baca spoke last week but resisted calls from his own party to resign, saying he was quoted out of context.

He said he decided to step down because of the ‘media circus’ that developed.

De Baca had been approached by the BBC’s Jon Kelly for comments on the presidential election campaign at the New Mexico State Fair in Albuquerque, part of Bernalillo County.

Read the full BBC dispatch here.

— Deborah Bonello

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