This presidential campaign has been different, with Republican Party officials watching as Donald Trump, an unpredictable reality TV star and businessman, took over the party to a path paved by policies that defied typical conservative positions.
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“We want to come up with a really fair but firm answer”.
“If we follow the laws of the country, we can do what we need to do”, he said, adding later, “What people don’t realize, we have very, very strong laws”.
He was speaking in Austin, Texas, during a televised townhall-style interview with right-wing pundit Sean Hannity broadcast on Fox News on Wednesday night.
“All we can say, because the loss is beyond anything we can even think of, so all we can say is that they will not have died in vain because we won’t let it happen to others”, Trump said.
At a MS rally Wednesday, he escalated his pushback, calling Clinton “a bigot who sees people of color only as votes, not as human beings worthy of a better future”.
That is a far cry from the early days of the primaries, when Trump vowed to use a “deportation force” to round up and deport the millions of people living in the country illegally.
“I would say it’s nice to see Donald Trump acknowledge that he was wrong and that his opponents were correct”, said Chris Schrimpf, a spokesman for Kasich. “I would get people out and I would have an expedited way of getting ’em back into the country so they can be legal”, Trump told CNN’s Dana Bash in July 2015.
Donald Trump confronted head-on allegations that he is racist on Thursday, defending his hard-line approach to immigration while trying to make the case to minority voters that Democrats have abandoned them.
The businessman is not reneging on his plan to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico aimed at stopping migrants from entering the country illegally. “That’s a good height”, he said to cheers, taking his inspiration from the Great Wall of China. He said later he’d changed his mind because Trump insulted his family during the bitter White House campaign.
Of course, Trump’s right.
“They tried everybody they could think of to try to convince the Republican base to support some form of amnesty for illegal immigrants, and … sorry”, he said between laughs. Trump is only changing the way he speaks, not how he thinks. But whether he is honest in his about-face or not, he may lose some of his strident supporters, who may forgo voting altogether.
Some activists, like Trump himself, are claiming that he has not changed his position at all.
On the very first page, Coulter complains about what she perceives as the decline of American exceptionalism and says: “There’s nothing Trump can do that won’t be forgiven”.
In Austin, Trump trained his sights on border security as he reached the illegal immigration section of his stump speech.
“They get a lot of things for this”, Trump said of the foundation donors.
During the primary, Bush repeatedly argued that Trump’s deportation idea and proposal to build a wall along the border were “unrealistic” and wouldn’t come to pass.
Sources close to the campaign whisper they have to shore up the moron vote before going onto battleground states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and MI.
Trump said that on his first day in office, he would authorize law enforcement to actively deport “bad dudes”, such as those who have committed crimes, which he said numbered “probably millions”.
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It was the latest example of Trump appearing to waver on his long-held stance he would deport all illegal immigrants back to their home countries.
