Why Donald Trump's views on immigrants are dividing Republicans

[truebluefan]

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is drawing larger crowds as he continues to criticize immigration policies in stark language that has revealed a deep divide between immigration hawks and moderates who are trying to avoid alienating Hispanic voters.

On Saturday, Trump was scheduled to campaign in Nevada and then in Arizona, a hub of immigrant and drug smuggling where the real estate developer and reality TV star has developed a large following. A rally in Phoenix was first planned at a posh resort that could handle about 1,000 guests, but organizers moved it to the city's convention center.

Trump's descriptions of Mexican immigrants bringing drugs and crime to the U.S. and being rapists have been roundly denounced as offensive. But his message about the broken border has resonated with many in the GOP, especially after an immigrant who was deported multiple times was accused of killing a woman on a San Francisco pier.

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[truebluefan]

What Donald Trump means to 2016

Let’s start with this: Donald Trump is not going to be the Republican presidential nominee in 2016.

Trump may be in the middle of a bit of a polling burst, but those same polls show large numbers of people who won’t vote for the reality TV star under any circumstances. You don’t win party nominations when 40 percent (or more) of the party won’t vote for you under any circumstances.

But, just because Trump isn’t going to win (or even come close) doesn’t mean that his rise — and the massive amount of attention he continues to attract — is meaningless. It’s not. The question, however, is whatexactly Trump’s, gulp, popularity means.

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[truebluefan]

Lindsey Graham: Trump is a ‘wrecking ball’

Sen. Lindsey Graham channeled Miley Cyrus on Sunday in his attack against Donald Trump’s recent immigration comments – deeming his fellow presidential hopeful a “wrecking ball” on the verge of dismantling the Republican Party.

“I think he’s hijacked the debate,” Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I think he’s a wrecking ball for the future of the Republican Party with the Hispanic community and we need to push back.”

Regarding Trump’s controversial remarks in which he called some Mexican immigrants “rapists,” Graham said repeatedly that “we need to reject this.”

Read more http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lindsey-graham-trump-wrecking-ball

 

[truebluefan]

Lindsey Graham: Trump is a ‘wrecking ball’

Sen. Lindsey Graham channeled Miley Cyrus on Sunday in his attack against Donald Trump’s recent immigration comments – deeming his fellow presidential hopeful a “wrecking ball” on the verge of dismantling the Republican Party.

“I think he’s hijacked the debate,” Graham said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “I think he’s a wrecking ball for the future of the Republican Party with the Hispanic community and we need to push back.”

Regarding Trump’s controversial remarks in which he called some Mexican immigrants “rapists,” Graham said repeatedly that “we need to reject this.”

Read more http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/lindsey-graham-trump-wrecking-ball

 

[Denny Crane]

Trump is an idiot with dangerous ideas. That he has support is a sad statement about the political parties.

 

[truebluefan]

Donald Trump draws massive crowds during campaign swing

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump coasted on the controversy dogging the early weeks of his campaign to draw thousands of people eager to hear his fiery anti-immigration rhetoric this weekend.

In his first major campaign swing since announcing his candidacy last month, Trump completed a two-day tour Saturday that featured a series of at times rambling speeches, jumping from topic to topic while nonetheless energizing rancorous crowds as large as any of his rivals have attracted. Lines of people wrapped around the block as Trump began to deliver his remarks here Saturday afternoon, his campaign estimating that as many as 10,000 people had registered to see him speak.

“The silent majority is back, and we’re going to take the country back,” Trump bellowed after the crowd erupted into chants, “USA! USA! USA!”

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