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applegrove

(118,021 posts)
Wed May 9, 2018, 06:11 PM May 2018

The Anti-Immigration Party

https://politicalwire.com/2018/05/09/the-anti-immigration-party/

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Ron Brownstein: “The results of Tuesday’s primary elections simultaneously bolstered the Republican Party mainstream and demonstrated how much ground it has yielded to Donald Trump, particularly on the volatile issue of immigration.”

“In several key races, GOP primary voters rejected candidates who presented themselves as the most ardent acolytes of Trump, in terms of style, political agenda, or both. But the relatively more mainstream alternatives triumphed in those contests only after embracing much, or all, of Trump’s hostility toward immigration. That dynamic underscores Trump’s success at eroding resistance in the GOP toward his racially infused nationalism. And that could prove a defining gamble for the party in a nation inexorably growing more diverse.”

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The Anti-Immigration Party (Original Post) applegrove May 2018 OP
I am still "iffy" about immigration as a campaign issue. BigmanPigman May 2018 #1
so how many latinos voted for trump msongs May 2018 #2

BigmanPigman

(51,432 posts)
1. I am still "iffy" about immigration as a campaign issue.
Wed May 9, 2018, 06:19 PM
May 2018

The majority of Americans are pro-dreamer but immigration as a whole is a slippery slope. When CNN or MSNBC went to Nunes's district with the Dem candidate Janz all of the people that were out and about in town were GOP 100%. They either wouldn't talk to the "fake news" or if they did they were short and to the point...water and immigration were their two key issues (I thought it would be guns and abortion). They need free water from our drought ridden state for their rural farmland and they need cheap labor to work those farms...but they were hypocrites about immigration of course.

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