Sen. Ted Cruz continues to defend Donald Trump on immigration. But his poll numbers are strong in early primary states, and he drew hundreds of people during a campaign stop in New Hampshire.
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JOSH ROGERS: New Hampshire’s a place where even the most high-profile candidates tend to court voters hat-in-hand – most candidates. Trump professes to know everything about everything and refuses to acknowledge a shred of evidence to the contrary. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems and they’re bringing those problems with us, they’re bringing drugs, they are bringing crime, they’re rapists”. I don’t care. I don’t care.
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush said simply that Trump is “wrong”. Surprisingly, there are still some Hispanic leaders who like Trump. They are incompetent.
On Twitter, Trump expressed his “heartfelt condolences” to the family of Kathryn Steinle, who was shot in the chest and killed Wednesday evening in what police said was a random shooting.
Univision, the leading Spanish-language network broadcasting to millions of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans in the U.S, dropped the Miss US pageant from its schedule on July 12th because of Trump’s “offensive remarks about Mexican immigrants“.
Trump has since doubled, tripled, and quadrupled down on his remarks, insisting that there’s nothing especially controversial about pointing to crimes committed by undocumented immigrants.
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So yes, it’s been an a roller coaster of a week for the Trump campaign.
“People don’t want to talk about it, and if you talk about it, you’re a racist”, Trump said.
Dalton Ramirez, the artist behind the trend, said they are especially popular with customers as a way to bash Trump.
“As long as you keep incentivizing illegal immigration, you’ll never get the border under control”. “And some, I assume, are good people”. “We have no tolerance for discrimination in any form”, the company said.
TOM RATH: And it would be hard for anybody to say that a vote for Donald Trump would be anything other than a waste.
The response to the comment has been mostly negative. His backers are already relishing the opportunity.
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Conservative radio host Steve Deace argued Trump’s words are ringing true with conservatives who are exhausted of how they’ve been treated by the establishment Republican Party. As a whole, the rapidly-growing group supported President Barack Obama over Republican Mitt Romney 71% to 27%, according to the Pew Research Center. I think it’s great, I like Mexico. “The truth is, Mr. Trump, that your comments mean that you fail to see that immigrants are what have made this nation”. For NPR News, I’m Josh Rogers in Concord, N.H.
