The GOP has a hard row ahead of it, as a recent poll by Fox News Latino gives Clinton a 46-point lead over Trump among Hispanic voters.
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“We believe that Donald Trump’s divisiveness, recklessness, incompetence, and record-breaking unpopularity risk turning this election into a Democratic landslide, and only the immediate shift of all available RNC resources to vulnerable Senate and House races will prevent the GOP from drowning with a Trump-emblazoned anchor around its neck”, the letter says.
Trump is also expected to propose creating a new, ideological test for admission to the country that would assess a candidate’s stances on issues such as religious freedom, gender equality and gay rights.
Adar is active on the Facebook group, “Trump White and Blue”, which has almost 9,000 Israeli and American followers.
During his presidential campaign, Trump has called Mexican immigrants “rapists” and blamed them for drug trafficking, and he has promised to build a wall along the U.S. -Mexico border to halt illegal immigration.
The drip, drip, drip of Republicans defecting over Donald Trump’s candidacy has become a sudden deluge of party loyalists urging the Republican National Committee to withdraw funding for the faltering campaign.
Schorer said, however, that the Democrats have an advantage because “the Republicans have an especially unattractive candidate this year”.
“Nobody but Donald Trump will save Israel”, Trump tweeted in April 2015. Even Iranians held Obama in slightly higher regard, giving him a net favorability score of -21%, compared to Israel’s -22%.
Marc Zell, co-chairman of Republicans Overseas Israel, said about 100,000 Israelis voted in the last presidential election, with some 85 percent going Republican. Katsman said he hopes the trend continues. “No matter how much the elite media tries to manipulate his image, Trump understands the biggest problem in the region – Iran”, Pressman said. Meanwhile, the official GOP Twitter account, a Politico reader pointed out Monday, hasn’t mentioned Trump or used the campaign’s hashtag #TrumpPence since July 28th.
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Under the slogan “Trump: In Israel’s Interest”, the campaign will seek to reassure some 300,000 potential voters that the Republican presidential nominee will safeguard Israel’s interests in the Middle East.
